Re: Trouble getting ange-ftp to work

[Davin Pearson <davin.pearson@gmail.com>]

On May 24, 8:06 pm, daniel <dan...@ackack.eu> wrote:
> Sounds like index.php is not at the top level of the 'davin' directory. It's more likely in
/home/users/davin/public_html/index.php and you're trying to get it
at /home/users/davin/index.php.

I tried C-x C-f on the following files but neither work:

/davin@ftphost.ripway.com:index.php
/davin@ftphost.ripway.com:public_html/index.php

Here is the sequence of commands for uploading index.php:

ftp ftphost.ripway.com
User: <enter davin and press enter>
Password: <enter password and press enter>
ftp> <enter put index.php and press enter>
ftp> <enter dir and press enter>

here is a snippet of the directory

07-08-07  01:35AM                 9941 apple.jpg
07-08-07  01:35AM                  485 apple.php
07-08-07  01:35AM                 8718 banana.jpg
07-08-07  01:35AM                  544 banana.php
07-08-07  01:35AM                 8143 carrot.jpg
07-08-07  01:35AM                 2243 fern.png
07-08-07  01:35AM                  106 hello.html
05-24-08  03:01AM                  629 index.php
06-18-07  01:23AM       <DIR>          inner
07-08-07  01:35AM                  504 inner-1.php
07-08-07  01:35AM                  510 inner-2.php
07-08-07  01:35AM                  512 inner-3.php
07-08-07  01:35AM                  510 inner-4.php
07-08-07  01:35AM                  375 inner.inc
07-08-07  01:35AM                  508 inner.php

ftp> <enter pwd and press enter>
257 "/" is current directory

This hopefully proves that the file index.php is located where I said
it was.

I have looked at the documentation for tramp and it seems to be a
better system than ange-ftp.  Would you recommend me getting the
latest binaries of Emacs so that I can run Tramp out of the box?