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Access to Joomla 15 files

Submitted by derrickherbert on Fri, 04/11/2008 - 5:12am.

Hi all,

Please bear with me if this is a silly question but I know very little about FTP'ing etc.

I have a Joomla 1.5 jumpbox installed and I have successfully registered it. I can see the Joomla FrontEnd and BackEnd successfully.

I would like to be able to make some changes to the actual Joomla files. Having read through some stuff on the forum, I understand the only way to do this is using some sort of client to SFTP or SSH access to the files.

I have downloaded a client, and am pretty sure about most of the settings. Except what the username should be. I can't see one anywhere in the JumpBox admin settings.

Also, is it OK to use either SSH or SFTP or do I have to use one or the other?

Any help would be gratefully appreciated.

Derrick

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Access to Joomla 15 files

Submitted by godber on Fri, 04/11/2008 - 9:42am.

If you have registered then enabled SSH as shown here:

http://www.jumpbox.com/archives/141_how-to-enable-ssh-access-to-a-jumpbo...

You can use SFTP/SCP to copy files to or from your JumpBox. You would use the username "admin" and the password you set during JumpBox setup.

SSH and SFTP are related but different. SSH will give you a remote command shell into the JumpBox that lets you run command line commands. This is like a remote cmd.exe (in Windows) or Terminal (in Mac). SFTP/SCP allows you to copy files back and forth between the computer you are using and the JumpBox.

There are also editors that interact with SFTP programs that allow you to remotely edit files on an SSH enabled JumpBox. See my comment here on using WinSCP to edit remote files.

Two major words of caution though, make sure you save copies of the original files so you can undo changes you have made, we can't help you fix anything you may break in the application. Since you are making the changes, they will be your responsibility.

The second warning is, our backups will not backup changes you make to existing files. They will only backup new files you create. So if you make changes on to Joomla, then upgrade to a newer version of the Joomla JumpBox, you will have to make the same changes again or move them over from the old version.

Austin

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Thanks for your reply

Submitted by derrickherbert on Tue, 04/15/2008 - 3:02am.

Thanks for your reply Austin. This was a great deal of help.

Derrick

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