Get WinScp application to handle uploads or similar:
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Click 'New site' in the popup window and fill in the data.
- hostname:expo.survex.com
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- password:[contact your expedition leader for password]
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Click 'Login' to connect. You should be able to upload files now.
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This will display a tree-structured menu in a sub-window and one of the items will be "Expo-uploads". Highlight it
and then click on the "Connect" button at the bottom of the sub-window.
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You will now be prompted for the password for the expo server. This is the "cavey:beery" one which we never write down or write in emails. Get it verbally or by phone or secure text message from another expoer.
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Now you may have a problem on a Windows machine. Even though you have set up the key-exchange process, it may not be working:
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We have to check that the "Pageant" software is running, see the icon above to the left.
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+On a Windows machine, click in the lower QuickLaunch bar to see what's running. Can you see the Pageant icon? If you put your mouse on it you will see a popup label: "Pageant (PuTTY authentication agent)":
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If you can't see the icon, you will need to start the program from your program menu. The image of the menu below is from a standard Windows 7 menu, if you are using a default Microsoft menu from a more recent version then in won't look like this (unless you are using Classic Shell):
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Even after you have got Pageant running, it may still need to be told to load the key. It needs to know the private-key (the counterpart to the public-key you shared with the server). Click on the icon in the QuickLaunch toolbar and select "View Keys":
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Now you should see the ssh-rsa key in the list in the next popup window:
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+If this window is empty, click on the"Add key" button which will launch a file explorer, use it to find your *.ppk file. Once selected the string should appear in the Pageant Key List window as shown above.
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You may now be prompted for the password for the expo server. This is the "cavey:beery" one which we never write down or write in emails. Get it verbally or by phone or secure text message from another expoer. If the key-exchange process is working you won't need the password.
Now check that these Filezilla settings are set correctly:
In the "Transfer" menu, ensure that "Preserve timestamps of transferred files" is ticked. Yes,you want to keep the timestamps.
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The list of software:
git - distributed version control system - already installed on Linux probably
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Filezilla - ftp GUI software with a configuration file to get to the expo server
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Filezilla - ftp GUI software with a configuration file to get to the expo server
Tunnel: 2.5D cave drawing program based on Survex-compatible data which can also read PocketTopo files. (Generally called 'tunnel' even though the project and executable is actually 'tunnelx'.)
Therion - Therion processes survey data and generates maps or 3D models of caves.
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python for windows. We are moving from python 2.7 to python 3.8 during June 2020.
WinScp can be used as an alternative to Filezilla if you like.
java - needed for GPSprune and CaveConverter. Has to be installed separately on a Windows machine.
Notepad++ or any other syntax-highlighting code editor for HTML and python such as Aptana Studio. Configuring these to syntax-highlight .svx files has yet to be done.
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When using Windows please, please be excessively careful when naming files and survex names and be exceptionally careful when using rsync.
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Now you are in and can copy and move files anywhere. But please stick to copying files from your machine (the left window) to the server (the right window) into the /uploads/, /photos/ or /gpslogs/ folders only:
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For installing and pre-configuring Filezilla on a new machine see FileZilla install instructions which will set you up pointing at the correct folder automatically. But none of this will work on new machine until you have also done the key-pair setup procedure.
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For installing and pre-configuring Filezilla on a new machine see FileZilla install instructions which will set you up pointing at the correct folder automatically. But none of this will work on new machine until you have also done the key-pair setup procedure.
Automated magic
Note that uploading photos does not automatically update the view
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You will need to know the expo password but none of this will work until you have also done the key-pair setup procedure.
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To install and configure Filezilla on your machine see FileZilla install instructions which will set you up pointing at the correct folder automatically.
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To install and configure Filezilla on your machine see FileZilla install instructions which will set you up pointing at the correct folder automatically.