Setting up iFTP to work with your website is easy enough. It’s just a matter of providing the sign-in information, the same as you will need to use FTP anywhere. What is needed is the host name, user name, and password. Once this has been provided, you’ll only need to resubmit your password with each successive time you launch the app.
iFTP allows you to have several different FTP servers configured. For my uses at the present time, however, I just have one server I sign into that handles all previous and present versions of my website.
Opening the server shows all the information contained within. It contains all the folders and all the individual files stored on the server. I can add or delete any file order folder at this point.
Files can be uploaded to your server using iFTP from four different sources – an upload directly from the iPad, local files, a website, or from a computer using a WiFi through a URL. After it’s uploaded, iFTP asks you $2.99 to name the file, and it then appears within the other files and folders on your server.
Once on your server, files can be opened, viewed, edited, renamed, or deleted. Permissions can be changed at this point as well. When managing a website, you can edit and tweak the files right there on the iPad instead of having to resort to a desktop computer. To upload a file from the web, or to check on your progress as your edit, upload, and move around files, you don’t even have to leave the app. iFTP also included a web browser. It automatically opens up into Google, allowing you to either do a search, or put in a URL directly. With iFTP, I haven’t found anything I cannot do. While it did cost $2.99, it’s an amount well-spent in the time it saves me from not having to bounce back and forth between my iPad and Mac. This, combined with the ease of use, makes it a great little find for anyone looking for a solution for transferring files to or from their iPad. iFTP (iTunes link)
