Certain content editors require documents uploaded to the website as they do not have a process in place to upload documents themselves.
District
Kate Hofland (office of General Counsel, admin for FACT committee)
Danay Bell (office of Public Stewardship)
Events
MCLI
My
News
Police
Procurement
Redirect
Success
Toolbox
Transformation
Briana Haas (MCLI)
WWW
Uploading a document to MCCC Main production websites requires Acquia Cloud permission on the appropriate team in order to SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol) files to the remote directories that live on the websites.
Some sites do have a Documents content type that allows certain files to be uploaded and attached to other pieces of content on the site. This has limitations as the files uploaded through the Documents content type is placed in a view table and put on the page as a side region block.
The more common use case is that editors want to link to files in their body text.
SSH Key
A valid SSH on your work machine is also required after obtaining appropriate Acquia Cloud access.
Acquia has specific requirements for what kind of SSH key they accept: https://docs.acquia.com/acquia-cloud/manage/ssh/enable/
FileZilla
FileZilla is a free program that makes FTP simple for anyone to do.
Requirements
access on Acquia Cloud to web properties
created valid SSH key
converted SSH key to .ppk format
attached SSH key to Acquia account
downloaded and installed FileZilla
Uploading files to MCCC Main Sites
Open FileZilla and navigate to File 🠒 Site Manager… (Ctrl+S)
When the Site Manager window opens, create a new entry by pressing the New site button.
Set a name for the entry e.g. mcccmain prod, then fill in the fields:
Protcol: SFTP - SSH File Transfer Protocol
Host: web-35311.prod.hosting.acquia.com
Port: N/A
Logon Type: Key file
User: mcccmain.prod
Key file: Browse to your Acquia Cloud SSH key file, make sure it’s in .ppk format.
After everything is filled out, press the Connect button to initiate a connection to the server.
Press OK if the Unknown host key prompt appears. If you set a passphrase for your SSH key, you will enter it at the Enter password prompt.
Once connection is successful, you will see a listing of folders. For MCCC Main, you should see folders called .cache, .drush, .ssh, drush-backups, prod.
Go into the prod folder, then go into the sites folder. You should see a list of folders for each site in the code line.
Navigating into any of the site folders will take you to the files folders where you can directly upload files to the websites. Almost all website files live in the files folder.
Learn how to convert your SSH key to .ppk format. Read through Acquia’s documentation.
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