lftp issues on Windows

[gvanem]

I discovered Pelican some days ago and was quite pleased.
That until I tried to find a suitable upload program for Windows.
The generated Makefile had a lftp command that failed to work for me.
I did install a Cygwin-x64 version of lftp.exe:

LFTP | Version 4.9.2 | Copyright (c) 1996-2020 Alexander V. Lukyanov
...
Libraries used: Expat 2.5.0, idn2 2.3.4, libiconv 1.17, OpenSSL 1.1.1u  30 May 2023, Readline 8.2, zlib 1.2.13

The issues I had:

• The server to upload to (one.com in Denmark) has both an IPv4 and IPv6 address. But my IPv6 connectivity is
  broken thanks to my ISP Telenor and my crappy router. But the command set dns:order inet forced IPv4 only.
• Cygwin's lftp doesn't understand Windows paths like f:/gv/Python/whatever.
  Had to convert it to /cygdrive/f/gv/Python/whatever.
• Using the default TLS settings in lftp caused the 1st upload to never finish. Related to this?
  But a set ftp:ssl-allow false fixed that.
• And finally, the uploaded files were all with CHMOD 750.
  Thus my web-client (Chrome) got a 403 response on my Pelican site.

So I ended up with these make-rules that worked for me:

...
OUTPUTDIR     = $(BASEDIR)/output
OUTPUTDIR_CYG = /cygdrive/$(subst :,,$(OUTPUTDIR))

LFTP_CMD = set ftp:passive-mode true ; \
           set ftp:ssl-allow false   ; \
           set dns:order inet        ; \
           mirror -R $(OUTPUTDIR_CYG) $(FTP_TARGET_DIR) ; \
           quit

ftp_upload: publish run_chmod
	lftp ftp://$(FTP_USER_PWD)@$(FTP_HOST) -e "$(LFTP_CMD)"

run_chmod:
	cd $(OUTPUTDIR) ; \
	chmod --recursive --verbose 755 *

I mean, how hard should be to publish a Web-site? Anybody else on Windows had issues like these?

[justinmayer]

In my experience, it's not hard to publish a web-site. Then again, I haven't used FTP in… decades? If your host offers SSH access, I think you might be better served by Rsync, which I have found to work very well.

[gvanem]

If your host offers SSH access,

It does, but I find ssh equally clumsy as these I've looked into:

• WinSCP and it's synchronize command.
• SiteCopy which even crashes on minor issues.
• Have not looked at Rsync; will install the Cygwin port of it.

PS. If I use relative paths in my makefile, the horrid OUTPUTDIR_CYG = /cygdrive/$(subst :,,$(OUTPUTDIR)) is not needed.

[justinmayer]

As I do not use Windows, I am ill-equipped to provide guidance in this area. Perhaps someone else can provide Windows-specific suggestions.