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Lab setup: Server configuration - FTP Tutorial
From the course: Learning SFTP
Lab setup: Server configuration
- [Instructor] In this video, we'll take a look at some different ways of setting up a server to use with SFTP. If you already have a server that you plan to connect to, you don't need to follow these steps. If you don't have a server to connect to, I recommend you watch this video all the way through first to get an idea of the options available so you can decide which of these options to follow. We'll see each of them briefly here, and I'll direct you to some other courses with more details if you're interested in exploring any of these approaches in depth. Generally speaking, there are three ways we might set up a server that runs SSH. We could create a virtual machine for the server to run in. We could set up our server using a real computer, or we could start up a server in the cloud. Usually a server we connect to with SFTP will be a Linux server. That's not always the case, but it's by far the most common case, especially when we're working with a web host or if we're using a…
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