Uploading Media Content

We have a place to store media content such as images and videos, e.g., created at sailing events. This place is the directory /var/www/static on our web server, and it is publicly reachable by HTTP at http://static.sapsailing.com/.... For example, the file /var/www/static/images/splash-screen-compressed-02.png is reachable via the URL http://static.sapsailing.com/images/splash-screen-compressed-02.png.

Uploading content to this directory works best using the "secure copy" (SCP) protocol, sometimes also referred to as SFTP. It is basically sending files through a secure shell (SSH) connection. Command line aficionados will know the "scp" command and its options and will understand what it means to have a public/private key pair that allows them to log on to the sapsailing.com web server.

For those who don't, we can easily create username/password accounts on the web server which spares the technical tidbits of public/private key pair creation and registration. A good graphical tool (for the less command line-oriented folks) is WinSCP which can be downloaded at http://winscp.net.

For those in an open Internet environment (outside the SAP VPN or logged on to the "SAP Internet" WiFi) the hostname to use is sapsailing.com and the port number is 22. Inside the SAP VPN we have to use a little trick to make the connection. Use 10.18.22.50 as the hostname and 12349 as the port number.