FTP as folder/webdisk

Question

Is there any way for filezilla(or any other program) to make a folder that is a live ftp folder and any changes I make automatically go to the website.

Answer 1

Internet Explorer supports this very well. You can use it to browse your FTP site and make changes: create/rename/delete directories and files. Use the following syntax to connect:

ftp://USER_NAME:PASSWORD@YOUR_FTP_SITE

Then if you want to reflect the changes to a website, use a dynamic language for the rendering of your website. At each reload of the page of your website you would be able to show the changes in the FTP backend. If you do not want any reload of the page, then you need to have to have some timer & AJAX functionnalities in place in order to constantly check the ftp folder changes and reflect them if needed.

Answer 2

On mac: Get server IP address, In browser type ftp://IP_ADDRESS_HERE Hit enter

Answer 3

I use Expandrive. It's brililant, because it gives you a new drive letter that's mapped to your ftp site. Anything you change on the new drive is reflected live on your server. It'll work on ftp, sftp, ssh, whatever connection you throw at it.