Well I found some foxmarks documentation and it looks like WebDAV is an option. I'm going to see what I can find out about setting that up with apache. Provided it doesn't need port 443 I think I have found a way to avoid using FTP. It looks like future foxmarks client development is going to give WebDAV preferencial treatment anyway.
-- John D. Mort http://john.mort.net On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 7:50 PM, Jesse Ziter <[email protected]> wrote: > Im sticking to my guns and recommending vsftpd, as the vs stands for very > secure. > > Features Despite being small for purposes of speed and security, many more > complicated FTP setups are achievable with vsftpd! By no means an exclusive > list, vsftpd will handle: > > - Virtual IP configurations > - Virtual users > - Standalone or inetd operation > - Powerful per-user configurability > - Bandwidth throttling > - Per-source-IP configurability > - Per-source-IP limits > - IPv6 > - Encryption support through SSL integration > - etc... > > > Regards, > Jesse Z > > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 7:22 PM, John Mort <[email protected]> wrote: > > > My intention was to use foxmarks as the client, but point it to my own > FTP > > server. To the best of my knowledge, foxmarks only interacts with an FTP > > server, if I find out otherwise I'll just keep using SCP. That's > partly > > why I'm asking around about FTP servers, I figure, if you gotta use one, > > you > > might as well use the most secure one. > > > > -- > > John D. Mort > > http://john.mort.net > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Sean O'Connor <[email protected] > > >wrote: > > > > > Something else to think about is weather your using Foxmarks for > backing > > up > > > or syncing your bookmarks across multiple machines. > > > For backup something simple like FTP or rsync will work great, syncing > > > however is a completely different beast. > > > To sync you need to deal with fun issues like what to do when you have > > > changes on both your local machine and the server. If you are looking > to > > > do > > > sync across multiple machines to the server, then your best option may > be > > > to > > > use some type of VCS like git or svn. Its a little heavy handed but > VCS > > > tools will be much better at dealing with the sync issues. > > > > > > ____________________________ > > > Sean O'Connor > > > http://seanoc.com > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Jesse Ziter <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > > vsfptd is my personal favorite , however i would assume that due to > the > > > > small nature of information you might be able to get away with tftp > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > Jesse Z > > > > > > > > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 4:34 PM, John Mort <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Currently I use foxmarks and store my bookmarks on their server. > But > > I > > > > > think I want to try setting up my own server to keep my bookmarks > on, > > > > > rather > > > > > than rely on some 3rd party I'm not paying to stay in business. > Step > > > one > > > > > would be to set up an FTP server on the machine that's going to > store > > > the > > > > > bookmarks, but there seems to be many options out there. Does > anyone > > > > have > > > > > any FTP server preferences? I'd like to narrow down the list. > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > John D. Mort > > > > > http://john.mort.net > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group > > http://mhvlug.org > > > > > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > > > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS > > Auditorium > > > > > Feb 4 - Ruby on Rails > > > > > Mar 4 - TBD > > > > > Apr 1 - TBD > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group > http://mhvlug.org > > > > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS > Auditorium > > > > Feb 4 - Ruby on Rails > > > > Mar 4 - TBD > > > > Apr 1 - TBD > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > > > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium > > > Feb 4 - Ruby on Rails > > > Mar 4 - TBD > > > Apr 1 - TBD > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium > > Feb 4 - Ruby on Rails > > Mar 4 - TBD > > Apr 1 - TBD > > > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium > Feb 4 - Ruby on Rails > Mar 4 - TBD > Apr 1 - TBD > _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Feb 4 - Ruby on Rails Mar 4 - TBD Apr 1 - TBD
