By saltcod on

Quick question:

When I ssh to my live server, I can use wget. When working on localhost, I can't.

why can't I wget while developing on locahost?

Thanks!

Terry

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cog.rusty’s picture

cog.rusty commented

What command are you running and what happens?

saltcod’s picture

saltcod commented

Hey,

When I update modules/core on my live sites, I just:

ssh username@mysite.com

Then I enter my password and I'm all set. I do wget http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/drupal-6.12.tar.gz

Then I tar -xvzf to unpack and install the new files.

But wget doesn't work on localhost. It only works when I first ssh to a server.

Thanks for any suggestions.

mm167’s picture

mm167 commented

I have the same question ...

I may drive from home to office, but I cannot drive from bathroom to kitchen...I can only walk ...

for localhost, use windows (or linux) file manager.

cog.rusty’s picture

cog.rusty commented

How does it fail? What happens when you run the same wget command on localhost? And error message? what does it say?

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saltcod commented

thanks guys. It says "command not found". Just as if I type in non-sense like alkdjfdlkjfafjg at the command prompt - it will say command not found.

It looks like it doesn't know what to do with 'wget'. It knows what to do with it when I ssh to one of my servers, but it can't do it when I'm just on localhost.

Could it be that my server has ssh installed but my computer doesn't?

cog.rusty’s picture

cog.rusty commented

It means that wget is not installed on your computer (or that it can't be found).

The way to install wget depend on the operating system that you are using. Search in google for wget install windows xp or wget install ubuntu or whatever OS you are using.