Questions on FTP

[modega]

I have a main index page that I would like to appear on a lot of pages. I don't want to use .php or perl.

I am going to upload the main template to thousands of directories. So I need a speedier process then opening my FTP and uploading the index.htm to every one.

Is there any way on FTP that you can highlight like 10 directories at once. Like for example:

/word1/about 20 directories here

So, is there anyway I can highlight all 20 directories at upload to each folder?

I've tried a bunch of times on my own to figure it out but haven't made progress.

Does anyone know what I can do?

[broniusm]

You might type up a quick batch file that just copies from your orig "seed" location.

How? I dunno.. I'm an IIS guy-- we depend on GUIs! :D

let us know your findings

[bakedjake]

ncftp [ncftpd.com] lets you use wildcards.

put /word1/*

[McKracken]

Is it a Win or *nix host?

On *nix it is easy to do .. Just upload to one directory and either make a small shell script to copy it to adequate locations, or (better) make softlinks to different directories and upload only once.

On win? Don't know :)

[plumsauce]

on win same thing :)

[percentages]

A permanent redirect on all of the alternative URLs would be the best solution. Then you only need to upload the page once and host it once.

SE's will probably also still like you if you do the permanent redirect ;)