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GoLive on Mac OS X

Revised Mar 13 2003
GoLive is web-authoring software that has the capability of "publishing" your webpages by letting you directly upload them onto a web server. Because the UA web servers are protected by SSH, GoLive's file-transport mechanism (FTP) must tunnel SSH to get to the server. These are the steps to get GoLive to do this. You are basically telling GoLive's FTP to hand-off to SSH. Additionally, an SSH tunnel must be established and be open for GoLive's FTP to work.

Configuring GoLive's FTP

    Note that there are numerous ways to set these configurations and use them.
  • Under Edit, select Servers.
  • Click the New Item icon in the window (indicated with the red arrow below).
  • Choose a meaningful Nickname for this server configuration. This name does not have any relationship with any alias name you give your SSH tunnel.
  • For the Server use 127.0.0.1:1024 (The "ftp" part gets filled in by GoLive.)
    This is an internal IP address and Port where the hand-off to SSH takes place.
  • Directory is optional, but put public_html here if you will always be working with webpages.
  • For Username enter your NetID.
  • Click the Save button and enter your Password.
  • Click OK.
    • If you leave your Password out, a window appears asking if you want to form a "keychain" with no password in it. Click Don't Add so that the configuration is saved - not with an empty or blank password - but with an absent one so that you'll be prompted for it later.
  • Click the Advanced button.
  • In the Advanced Options window check Use passive mode and click OK.
  • Back at the Available Servers window, click OK.
  • Now your path to the U-System has been defined.

Using FTP

  • Under the File pulldown choose FTP Browser.
  • For Server, select the one that you just defined above (utunnel).
  • Use SSH to connect to the U-System in order to open the SSH tunnel. (If it is open, the prompt in your Mac's Terminal window will indicate the U-System instead of your Mac.)
  • Click Connect in GoLive's FTP Browser.
  • If your Password was not entered as part of your Server configuration earlier, you will get a prompt for it now.
  • When the remote file-list window opens, you can drag-and-drop files in either direction - between your Mac Desktop or file folders and the FTP Browser window (the U-System) - to copy them.
  • To delete a remote file, highlight it in the window and click the trash can icon in the upper left toolbar under the GoLive menu bar.
  • Click Disconnect when you have finished and exit from your U-System connection.

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