Joomla FTP layer / SFTP

gjrweb · **Posted:** Fri Oct 10, 2008 1:37 pm

Hi guys,

We have a server using SFTP only. How could we install Joomla in a way the FTP layer works with SFTP?
Is this already possible? Or will it be a feature in 1.6?

Regards,

Ronald

Anarchyx67 · **Joined:** Wed Oct 01, 2008 5:38 pm **Posts:** 55

That would for sure be a nice feature. I'd like to see it as well.

adamos46 · **Posted:** Sat Oct 11, 2008 5:46 am

My servers run sftp only. Install mod_suPHP or fastcgi with suexec and chown the joomla dir to a local user with sftp access and you will be fine.

gjrweb · **Posted:** Sat Oct 11, 2008 11:49 am

Dear Sir,

Thanks for your quick reply. However we are in no way in control of this server.

I will check mod_suPHP, however at the moment i am not capable of installing anyhting.

regards

adamos46 · **Posted:** Sat Oct 11, 2008 3:37 pm

Is it a VPS or shared hosting. You will have permission issues if you dont have the options I mentioned above. You can still install Joomla and secure it afterwards but I dont recommend this method. Contact the person who administers the server and ask them to at least install mod_suPHP if the server is not under heavy load.

-adam

gjrweb · **Posted:** Mon Oct 13, 2008 12:02 pm

It is shared university hosting, heavily secured

And having heavy load. I know, not optimal

Anarchyx67 · **Joined:** Wed Oct 01, 2008 5:38 pm **Posts:** 55

I think some could use an education is shared hosting. I'm sorry, but a major hosting company is not going to entertain a phone call from a customer saying "I need you to install <insert program here> on the server my web space is hosted off of". I'm sorry, but shared hosting does not work that way! The ONLY access we have is to the separate web space we get with our packages. Why would you believe for an instant that they would even consider installing something at the server level just because one person asks for it? No, not gonna happen. Thanks for trying to be helpful, but please learn how shared hosting works before throwing a reply out to the original poster. :pop

gjrweb · **Posted:** Mon Oct 13, 2008 2:41 pm

I was more looking for a solution on the Joomla side. Will SFTP be enabled in the 1.6 release?

adamos46 · **Posted:** Mon Oct 13, 2008 3:33 pm

Anarchyx67: I know how ignorant are most of shared hosting providers. I dint know that he was in a shared hosting environment thats why I asked. Reread the posts before making non-sense posts.

gjrweb: You can still install Joomla with a method that I dont recommend. In a similar university environment I did it and it still works. pm me.

gjrweb · **Posted:** Mon Oct 13, 2008 3:46 pm

Many thanks for your help, please contact me via ronald at gj-r .nl

I can not PM yet

Anarchyx67 · **Joined:** Wed Oct 01, 2008 5:38 pm **Posts:** 55

adamos46 wrote:

Anarchyx67: I know how ignorant are most of shared hosting providers. I dint know that he was in a shared hosting environment thats why I asked. Reread the posts before making non-sense posts.

gjrweb: You can still install Joomla with a method that I dont recommend. In a similar university environment I did it and it still works. pm me.

Adamos46, like telling him to install on a University server with a method you don't recommend makes any sense??? Are you aiming to get him banned by the University IT department?? Re-read YOUR post and think hard about it. Especially before you criticize others. I was not trying to attack you, merely pointing out a fact.

ircmaxell · **Posted:** Mon Oct 13, 2008 10:14 pm

*hint hint*...

If you watch SVN, I just committed this change in for 1.6... Some more work still needs to be done, but as of right now, 1.6 will ship with an SSH connector (some operations needed use the SFTP subsystem, but most just use SSH)...

gjrweb · **Posted:** Wed Jan 28, 2009 2:26 pm

Great to hear this is solved in 1.6! Any idea when the release of 1.6 is there?

msheekhah · **Joined:** Mon Aug 31, 2009 9:52 am **Posts:** 5

adamos46 wrote:

My servers run sftp only. Install mod_suPHP or fastcgi with suexec and chown the joomla dir to a local user with sftp access and you will be fine.

My admin installed mod_suPHP and it did not help.

I could really use some assistance.

queenzeal · **Joined:** Mon May 25, 2009 2:36 pm **Posts:** 2

ircmaxell wrote:

*hint hint*...

If you watch SVN, I just committed this change in for 1.6... Some more work still needs to be done, but as of right now, 1.6 will ship with an SSH connector (some operations needed use the SFTP subsystem, but most just use SSH)...

Where? Is it in the trunk or in one of the branches? Please don't tell me it uses the god awful PECL ssh2 extension.

jeffchannell · **Posted:** Thu Nov 05, 2009 12:33 am

1.6 will ship with an SSH connector? Neat...

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