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Feedback text: HiSF,

I was trying to upload a home page for a
project,C: Drive Back.


http://cdriveback.sourceforge.net/xxx.php goes
to \"File does not exist:

/home/groups/c/cd/cdriveback/htdocs/xxx.php\"

That\'s Ok but when I FTP in I get to
/home/users/j/ja/jaynicks

and it took awhile to figure out that escaping
/home/users/... was valid, as usually it is
discouraged by hosting services.

I suggest that to
https://sourceforge.net/docs/E07/en/#shell

where it says:
-----------------------------
The following is a list of commonly requested
information regarding the project shell service:

* Hostname: shell.sourceforge.net (or
shell.sf.net)
* Username: as used to login to the
SourceForge.net web site.
* Password: Password authentication is not
supported. You must configure a SSH key pair for
authentication.
* Project Group Directory:
/home/groups/P/PR/PROJECTNAME
* Project Web Directory (root):
/home/groups/P/PR/PROJECTNAME/htdocs
* Project Web CGI Script Directory:
/home/groups/P/PR/PROJECTNAME/cgi-bin

-----------------------------


you might add something like


-----------------------------------------
When your SFTP client attaches you will be taken
to your user home directory, e.g.
/home/users/u/us/username

and you will need to change directories to your
project as in

cd /home/groups/m/my/my_project/htdocs
-----------------------------------------


In my experience this is quite unconventional,
ergo non-intuitive, although sensible.

Perhaps a little more of a note or example would
be an improvement.

Perhaps not, Grin.

Best regards,

Jay Nickson

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