REST FTP Proxy
This runs a local FTP server (on localhost) that will communicate with a remote web server over HTTP/REST. This allows you to upload/download your files using your favorite FTP client even when the remote host doesn't support FTP.
To use it, you must deploy the endpoint file (see examples/endpoint.php) to your remote host and supply the url to this endpoint when starting the local FTP proxy.
Note: this tool is built with Node.js and is installed via npm so make sure to have Node installed.
Installation:
npm install rest-ftp-proxy
Usage:
rest-ftp proxy [--port 2121] [--host 127.0.0.1] http://my-site.example.com/endpoint.php
Connecting over FTP
Open your favorite FTP client, for instance FileZilla and create a new connection with the following details:
- Host:
127.0.0.1 - Port:
2121 - Username:
{endpoint-username} - Password:
{endpoint-password}
The username/password is hard-coded in the endpoint file (see examples/endpoint.php) or can be specified as an environment variable on the server.
Todo:
I'd like to get this working with ExpanDrive to mount remote site as a local directory. To do so, I need to implement ranges for both upload and download.
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Have fun.