Mounting an FTP Site to a Windows Drive
This is another great tool that I just downloaded and tried out. Again, if you’re a web developer, you know how nasty some of those FTP tools can be and how cumbersome it is to edit a file, save it, FTP it, then refresh your browser to see the changes.
Of course, if I still had a decent deveoplent environment, I probably wouldn’t be complaining, but who really does!? Anyway, this nifty little tool allows you to “mount” FTP sites to a windows drive. It’s just like mapping a drive letter to a network share, but this is mapped to your FTP server.
With this, to “log on” to my FTP site, all I have to do us run Z:/<ftpname> in my command prompt and I’m there. I have all the options with a right click as I do with all of my other files. So if I’m editting an image, I can open it directly with Photoshop, or if it’s a php file, I can open it directly with Notepad++ and edit it in place. When I save it, the changes are immediately active on my website. Of course, this doesnt’ come without caution. I’m always backed up and I know what I’m doing. This is a good way to kill your whole website if you don’t know what you’re doing
Check it out here. Enjoy.
–Edit
In fact, I think I’ll go ahead and back-up now
As soon as you can give me 1 reason why your little link there is trying to connect to my local database…
uh – don’t think so!
Dang, you had me scared there. That’s just a link to the wordpress blog that I found the link in. It was pointing to http://riccardo.raneri.it/blog/eng/index.php/2007/08/04/how-to-mount-an-ftp-as-a-windows-drive/.
It looks like his database has crashed.
Here’s Googles cached version in case you think I’m up to something
http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache:2LAXAaghNUkJ:riccardo.raneri.it/blog/eng/index.php/2007/08/04/how-to-mount-an-ftp-as-a-windows-drive/+http://riccardo.raneri.it/blog/eng/index.php/2007/08/04/how-to-mount-an-ftp-as-a-windows-drive/&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us
Anyway, ignore all that. His blog just links to the download site anyway. I was just trying to give him credit for the link. Here’s where I downloaded it from :
http://www.killprog.com/fdrve.html
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