Accessing a remote repository on a web server using ftp with user and password

[Paul Moore]

On 13/09/2007, Massimo Manca <massimo.manca at micronengineering.it> wrote:
> I have my company web pages hosted on a web server maintained by a
> provider, I have also unlimited disk space so I would use some of it to
> public our repositories. I am investigating to find a sw better then cvs
> that may manage this situation. Actually I  would test Mercurial and Bazaar.
>
> - I can access to the space using ftp (read/write) and http (read), I
> haven't sftp, ssh, https, aftp available.

I believe Bazaar handles read/write over FTP, but Mercurial does not.

Having said that, Bazaar requires certain features in FTP - notably
the ability to append to an existing file - that not all FTP servers
offer (my ISP doesn't :-(). That may be due to get fixed in future
versions, but I'm not 100% sure of that.

To summarise - based on what you said, hg won't work, bzr might.

If you have the ability to host CGIs on the server, you can install hg
on the server and use its CGI server for read/write.

Hope this helps,
Paul.