To add a chrooted FTP user outside of Plesk properly, you need to: Create the user with the home directory as the root of what they can access Give the user a password Make their primary group psacln Add them to the psaserv group as well # useradd username -d /var/www/html/website/slideshow/ # passwd username Enter [...]

At WebSight Design we try to remain technology-agnostic. (The right tool or language for the job.) Having said that, we are primarily a PHP shop. However, with the launch of the Google App Engine, we’ve been looking seriously at Python. In recent years, I have become a big fan of development frameworks so to aide [...]

As you may have found out, a web server that houses a bunch of web sites can cause some issues with file permissions when it comes to allowing PHP to write files that a web site needs, whether it is a data file, a document or an image. This is usually not an issue if [...]

My company: WebSight Design, uses Subversion for source and version control for all of our web development projects. We also use the amazing hosted Subversion service: Springloops. (If you ever need a Subversion deployment tool, Springloops is it!) Springloops repositories are *only* accessible via HTTPS. In order to gain access to a repository from the [...]