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Erik is now blogging at psykel.

Happy Trails, grumps

Grumpy, Fusium's Senior FileZilla Administrator (in addition to Junior Arctic Silver Engineer) found out (the hard way) how to add aliases to FileZilla. See, the little helper text on the Alias dialog box is very cryptic. Here's how you do it.

Go to User management, then pick the user, then shared folders.

Then enter the path to the target of the alias in the left column (via the folder browser popup), then dbl-click the white area to the right of it (under the Alias column), then type in the full path to an imaginary folder based on the ftp user's home directory. So if the user's home directory is c:\ftproot\user and you want them to be able to cd to c:\somedir, you enter c:\ftproot\user\somedir as the alias. But don't actually make that folder on the file system.

Goofy, but now it's documented for the next time we need to add an alias.

This past Sunday, the 21st of May '06, DNS transferred over to our servers for a big client site we rebuilt. Monday was sketchy with uptime declining, our server monitors beeping pretty much all day and us pulling our hair out trying to figure out the problem. Since then, we've been locked in a fight-to-the-death for the last few days with our monster server.

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I''ve been setting up several FTP accounts lately using regular ol' IIS on a machine that only had one IP address available.

Unlike HTTP, where it is possible to host multiple sites using one IP using host headers, You can only host one FTP site per IP in IIS.

I remember the first time I did this was a huge pain to figure out, so here you go.

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