Step-by-Step Guide: Using Public Key for WinSCP Authentication
Discover the benefits of using public key authentication for WinSCP. Learn how to enhance data security while simplifying the login process.
In this blog post, we will discuss using a public key authentication instead of a username and password for WinSCP.
In today’s digital landscape, security is paramount when transferring sensitive data. Traditional password-based authentication methods, while convenient, pose significant risks due to their susceptibility to theft, guessing, and phishing attacks.
You can significantly enhance…
Automate SFTP Upload with PowerShell: A Step-by-Step Tutorial
Automating file transfer processes can significantly improve the efficiency and accuracy of data management. In this tutorial, we will walk through a PowerShell script that utilizes WinSCP to connect to an SFTP server, upload files from a local folder, and then move the files to an archive folder.
Prerequisites
Before you get started, ensure that you have the following:
WinSCP is installed on…
Automate SFTP Download with PowerShell: A Step-by-Step Tutorial
In today’s digital landscape, securely transferring files over a network is a common requirement. For Windows users, PowerShell provides a robust platform for automating such tasks. In this tutorial, we will walk through connecting to an SFTP server, automating file downloads, and archiving them using PowerShell and WinSCP.
Prerequisites
Before we begin, ensure you have the following…
I have a long, complicated, and mixed relationship with mods for games.
On the whole I like the idea of mods and how they can expand on and improve a game. But I had all the usual problems with incompatible mods, mods where the author walks away and the next big game update breaks the mod forever, to having them simply mess up games and corrupting saves so badly that you simply have to wipe…
Practicing to do things yourself is the best way to understand the logic! We started to learn about dynamic websites, server-side web development, Content management systems in the class. We had the chance to install our first WordPress and dive into it in the following lab.
We first downloaded WordPress from wordpress.org/download. We were also needed to download an SFTP(secure file transfer protocol) Client on our laptops. I downloaded WinSCP as a Windows user.
To connect the server, we had to give some information to our SFTP Client, such as server address, port, and connection type. We used knuth.griffith.ie, as a server address—our user name and passwords provided by our lecturer, Ruairi.
When we log in, the first thing we see is our folders on the left and server files on the right side of the page. We need to put our files inside of public_html folder to be accessible on the web. We drag and drop our first index.html files inside the public_html folder in order to test it.
To look at the website we need to browse as ServerAddress/~sUsername/CMS:
https://knuth.griffith.ie/~s*******/wordpress/
To be able to edit the web page; ServerAddress/~sUsername/CMS/wp-admin/:
After we made sure that everything was clear up to this point, we dived into it a little bit and saw how we could change things without writing a single code! It was inspiring because it gave me all the features I needed to create my portfolio! We can add pages, posts, change the themes, add plug-ins; in short, we can customize it up to our taste.
In this weeks Web Authoring lab, we attempted to connect to an online server for the first time and use the CMS (content management system), WORDPRESS, to create/edit a public website. To be honest, I was worried I might be overwhelmed a bit being my first dive into server side web development, however, as downloaded the programs and began to utilize them, I could see the process much clearer.
Our first step was to download a SFTP (secure file transfer protocol) Client on our own machines. I personally have a Windows machine, so I downloaded the WinSCP. Before I opened the application, I was not one hundred percent sure how this program would look like - however once I opened it, I realized how similar it looked to the file explorer on our pcs that also has a ‘login’ screen. This familiarity soothed the initial uncertainly I felt. We were given our own passwords and logins for our slice of the colleges server hard drive. Once you login, you can see your files (on the left) and the server’s files/hard drive (on the right) - see the image below:
As a tester, we were asked to put any HTML file we had onto the ‘public.html’ folder on the server.
Our next vital step was to download WORDPRESS, our chosen CMS, and successfully make our WORDPRESS login (this is separate from our server login details). One we downloaded and unzipped WORDPRESS, we had to add it to the ‘public.html’ folder on our college server. This essentially enables the CMS to be used in the website creation/organization process - WORDPRESS has built in themes, structures and code to mess around with. After creating our login details for WORDPRESS, we could see our website so far. For us, we can look at our website by entering this into the URL bar in browser:
knuth.griffith.ie/********/wordpress/ ( or, server address/username/CMS/)
or to edit the page:
knuth.griffith.ie/********/wordpress/wp-admin/ (meaning, server address/username/CMS/edit page as admin)
It was pleasant to have all these components working (accessed/logged in successfully mainly) and to see the tester website in browser. Additionally, to edit the URL in order to edit the page was an interesting discovery that makes logical sense after practicing it. I hope to continue to edit my WORDPRESS site to warm up to this server site web development process even more.
