Compile

Welcome to the FXP.One project.

Before you start, this is not just another FTP/FXP client. It does not work that way.

FXP.One consists of an engine, and you would need (at least) one GUI to control it.

FXP.One engine

The idea was to put all the hard code into an engine that is really easy to interface with. This has worked surprisingly well, in that you can FTP/FXP entirely by using "telnet". This means writing a client, which is essentially just a Display Shell, quite trivial. This includes people who wants to just script clients, like by using perl, python and so on.

This also means you do NOT have to run the engine on the same machine that you run the GUI client(s).

For example, if you had a stable host, perhaps even with a static IP making the credentials for authentication easier, you could run the engine there. Then connect to it by the client of you choice.

You can disconnect this client (the engine will keep working if you do not tell it to stop) and start a new (and possibly different) client elsewhere, and resume control of your previous work.

But you can run the engine and client at the same time, and quitting at the same time, making it appear like a normal FTP/FXP client.

If you are looking for a Windows binary, please download the bundle from the latest UFxp client

Compiling the engine

 % cd FXP.One/
 % ./configure
 % make 

(Please use gnuMake; which might be called make, gmake, gnumake etc on your system)

This should always compile the FXP.One engine. If configure can find the correct CDK library and ncurses on your system it will also compile the ncurses client FXP.cOne. Otherwise it will skip compiling this client.

Running the engine

You will most likely need to create an SSL certificate for the engine since the default is only to accept secure connections.

Since the engine will be saving your remote FTP site information, as well as any User/Passwords you chose on disk, you should consider encrypting these files.

FXP.One engine will do this for you. When you start the engine, it will as for a "Key". This is the Key that it will use to encrypt all its data files. If you do not want encryption, just press return.

For the first time you run FXP.One, just make up whatever Key you want.

When you start the engine in future, you have to specify the correct Key or it will not be able to read your data files. (And you will not be able to login).

To start again, you need to delete all .FXP.One files, and the engine will create these again.

When the user file does not exist, the FXP.One engine will automatically create a login as "admin" with password "admin".

NOTE: If you edit .FXP.One.settings file, you can change the option "ssl=1". By default it will only allow SSL connections. If you change it to "ssl=0" you make it optional. This allows you to telnet to the engine should you wish to check it out. Please read the "engine/API.txt" for more information on the FXP.One protocol.

NOTE: Please be aware that all skiplist, movefirstlist and passlists are separated by the "/" character. That is, "fmovefirst=*.sfv/*.nfo".