Deploying Files (and PAServer) to Linux via WinSCP

April 6, 2017

Deploying Files (and PAServer) to Linux via WinSCP

I'm a longtime fan and user of WinSCP. It is great for direct deployment of files (including executable files build in Delphi) to Linux. But it also help deploying PAServer.

I'm a longtime fan and user of WinSCP (https://winscp.net/eng/index.php). This is a nice free utility to do SCP (Secure Copy via SSH) to Linux boxes, manage files, remotely, and even perform a variety of file system operations on remove Linux boxes. All from a nice and familiar Windows UI, with local folders and remote ones side by side. This is an example:

If you use this tool to deploy PAServer to your Linux box, you can also use it to un-compress and expand the tar.gz file, using a simple command in the popup menu of the remote file:

I've created a video showing these steps, but also the following operations need to connect the IDe to PAServer and import the Linux SDK. It is available on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-nnF5o3bhU or below:

PS. Just FYI, WinSCP is mostly written in C++, and built with a familair tool (http://winscp.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/winscp/winscp3/readme.txt?view=markup): "To build WinSCP you need: Embarcadero C++ Builder XE6 Professional"

posted by marcocantu @ 7:42AM | 4 Comments [0 Pending]

Alternative to WinSCP

As an alternative to WinSCP, I use TotalCommander, which has 
several plug-ins to to this, right into the software, for instance using 
FTP over SSH2. See https://www.ghisler.com/plugins.htm 
And TotalCommander is written in Delphi! 

Don't forget that using a .bat file calling http://www.putty.org/ 
command line tools is very simple and productive... no need of a GUI 
just to upload a file!

Comment by Arnaud Bouchez [http://synopse.info] on April 6, 09:17

Deploying Files and PAServer to Linux via WinSCP

 Another alternative to FTP over SSH is FileZilla

Comment by Norike on April 7, 06:17

Error deploying PAServer to Linux via WinSCP

 I have used Craig Chapman’s post to setup VirtualBox and install 
Ubuntu under VirtualBox on my Win7 64bit system.
http://chapmanworld.com/2016/12/29/configure-delphi-and-
redhat-or-ubuntu-for-linux-development/

I have installed the Ubuntu without any problems, but I could not 
deploy PAServer to Ubuntu.
I ran the ifconfig command to get the Ubuntu’s IP address 
(192.168.1.74) and I did try to use the WinCP with the correct IP 
address.
After the ’Searching for host…’ window I got the following error 
message: ’Network error: Connection to „192.168.1.74” refused. 
The server rejected  SFTP connection, but it listens to for FTP 
connections.

I did try to use the Total Commander’s SFTP plugin without 
success.

I can ping the Ubuntu’s IP address from the Win7 side, but I can’t 
imagine what is the problem on the Ubuntu’s side.


I used the followings to ’deploy’ and install the PAServer:

I uploaded the LinuxPAServer19.0.tar.gz file to my web page and I 
downloaded it using the Ubuntu’s FireFox browser. I installed the 
Double Commander under Ubuntu and I extracted the 
LinuxPAServer19.0.tar.gz file and I run the paserver app in the 
terminal window.

Comment by Zoltan on April 8, 13:14

Deploying Files and PAServer to Linux via WinSCP

Marco,

I got very useful tips from Craig Chapman.

I used the sudo apt-get install openssh-server command and it 
installed the missing SSH.
After it I used sudo ufw allow 22 command also and the WinSCP 
(and Total Commander SFTP plugin) works fine.

Comment by Zoltan on April 22, 13:21

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