Tag: Deployment

How to move your project from Linux/Mac to a Linux server using SCP

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This is purely for the comparison. My recent post was about the same thing but on Windows. Nasty business. And here is a guide for Linux/Mac – it is so much easier.

The difference is that here I use SCP, and for Windows I used SFTP. That is because even after generating the keys with PuTTYgen I could not figure out how to “install” them into PuTTY to use a command pscp -scp (the PuTTY scp) in the Command Prompt. That and the fact that my teammate was more comfortable with GUIs, so I picked the first thing that worked.

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How to move your project from Windows to a Linux server using SFTP

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I abandoned Windows years ago. And I don’t remember the exact moment, but I believe it was something akin to localization issues (my Windows was in Russian).

But in my line of work I deal with different developers on different systems, and lately I have had a situation, where one of my teammates had to use SFTP on Windows… If SFTP on Linux/Mac is a very easy one and done thing, on Windows – not so much.

So I figured out a solution for them.

Disclaimer: On the screenshots the GUIs of the programs are in Russian, but in my text instructions I go through everything in great detail. I also wrote this guide in Russian and translated it with Google Translate, because I feel so lazy right now – I slept like 10 hours without interruption and I feel like I hit gym yesterday (but I actually hit McDonalds).

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www not working

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Before you spend hours of working on Nginx config etc., check your domain’s DNS records.

You need to have a record resembling this:

Type: CNAME

Hostname/Name: http://www.your.website

Value: your.website

TTL (seconds): 3600

And in Nginx you need to capture http://www.your.website (port 80) and redirect it to https://your.website (port 443). Something like this:

server {
    listen 80;
    
    server_name www.your.website
    return 301 https://your.website$request_uri;
}