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Setting up Quanta Plus to edit files on your web server

Published on 3^rd December 2007 Estimated Reading Time: 1 minute

On Saturday, my hillwalking and photo gallery website suffered an outage thanks to Fasthosts, the site's hosting provider, having a security breach and deciding to change all my passwords. While I won't bore you with the details here, I had to change the password for my MySQL database from their unmemorable suggestion and hence the configuration file for the hillwalking blog. To accomplish this, I set up Quanta Plus to edit the requisite file on the server itself. That was achieved by creating a new project, setting the protocol as FTP and completing the details in the wizard, all relatively straightforward stuff. Since I have a habit of doing this from Dreamweaver, it's nice to see that an open source alternative provides the same sort of functionality.

New project using FTP protocol in Quanta Plus

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