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Posted by Ian Hulston
Ian Hulston
3,243 Points

Using ssh to copy a public_html file and place the copied file into my Virtualbox ubuntu machine

Hi anyone. I am trying to copy my Joomla website to my Virtualbox. I have already gathered the database and files using ssh and downloaded to my machine. I just need to copy rhe database and web files from my machine and place into my Virtualbox - ubuntu machine using ssh. I am fairly new to using all these programs, etc. But I enjoying learning new skills.

2 Answers

Jeff Muday
MOD
Jeff Muday
Treehouse Moderator 28,720 Points
Jeff Muday
Jeff Muday
Treehouse Moderator 28,720 Points

Can you ssh from the machine to the virtual box or vice-versa?

If so, then you can probably use 'scp' or 'sftp' utilities.

Here I demonstrate a simple example of scp

treehouse:~/workspace$ scp                                                                             
usage: scp [-12346BCpqrv] [-c cipher] [-F ssh_config] [-i identity_file]                               
           [-l limit] [-o ssh_option] [-P port] [-S program]                                           
           [[user@]host1:]file1 ... [[user@]host2:]file2

Now... lets copy a file from treehouse to a remote host

treehouse:~/workspace$ ls                                                                              
assets create_daily.py  monster.py  __pycache__  shop.py

We choose 'monster.py'

treehouse:~/workspace$ scp monster.py jeff@somedomain.net:~/monster.py                                    
jeff@somedomain.com's password:                                                                           
monster.py                                                           100%   80     0.1KB/s   00:00

Now... what if we want to transfer a whole directory called "assets" to the other server and put it in your 'home' directory... scp has you covered with the '-r' switch

treehouse:~/workspace$ scp -r assets jeff@somedomain.net:~                                                
jeff@somedomain.net's password:                                                                           
test.html                                                            100%   15     0.0KB/s   00:00     
another.html                                                         100%   20     0.0KB/s   00:00
Ian Hulston
Ian Hulston
3,243 Points

Thanks Jeff for answering. Sincere apologies for this late reply. I had been away to see relatives.

I'm relatively new to Treehouse so I haven't answered questions or posted any questions before this one. Using ssh is further than my achievements so far on Treehouse. This question relates to something on a different project. The only way to learn is to tackle projects beyond your level.

I can ssh from my machine to my Virtualbox. I log into my ubuntu server that way.

Jeff Muday
MOD
Jeff Muday
Treehouse Moderator 28,720 Points
Jeff Muday
Jeff Muday
Treehouse Moderator 28,720 Points

I am a casual VirtualBox user -- Ubuntu is a great choice for an environment either as a host or client operating system.

VMWare performs better (I use it at work), but the price of "free" for VirtualBox makes it pretty compelling for home projects.

Ian Hulston
Ian Hulston
3,243 Points

Thanks Jeff.

I have only recently downloaded VirtualBox as I use it at work. I'm a junior web developer but I'm have not been long in the position. This is my first web dev job. I began to use VirtualBox at work so I wanted to download it at home for my windows laptop to practice more with it especially with ubuntu. As I am relatively new to VirtualBox and ubuntu, I don't know of many projects as of yet (apart from the one I asked recently) I can do in my spare time to get my experience level up. Using Cygwin, ssh and cmd to execute commands is something I would like to have more experience with also.