Managing a website on linux

[rh71]

Just had new work assigned and while I know some Linux commands, managing anything on there is completely new to me. I'm a web app dev by trade and I now have a site written in Perl to manage on a remote RH Linux host. I can Putty into the server with sudo access and I can understand the file structure. What I am trying to figure out is how all of this was created and managed if I'm only on a command-line interface. For example, there's html or perl code and if it's short/simple, I can use the MORE command to check it. But for more complex pages, am I supposed to write/read/manage all of this on a terminal client (using something like VIM) just the same or is there an easier way? There has to be because I'm just seeing a huge wall of text and this is no way to live. If I wanted Notepad++, how do I go about it - must it be installed on the linux host? Do I use something other than Putty to accomplish all this?

Also for crontab, is command-line the only way?

 

[Ken g6]

I'm reminded of a recent thread...

Remote Development using SSH

Developing on Remote Machines or VMs using Visual Studio Code Remote Development and SSH

code.visualstudio.com

Would something like that work for you?

A lower-level method would be something like Filezilla or WinSCP.

I don't know a non-command-line/vim way for crontab.

I hope you have a dev server as well as production?

 

[rh71]

I'm reminded of a recent thread...



A lower-level method would be something like Filezilla or WinSCP.

I don't know a non-command-line/vim way for crontab.

I hope you have a dev server as well as production?

That's the scary part - the guy worked directly on the prod server and just renamed files to make it a prod vs. dev version.

I am trying to WINSCP files over to my WIN system to at least get a better view, but I can't get access to files that need sudo. Something about advanced settings and inserting the sudo command in there but it's not working.

 

[purbeast0]

Get VScode and remote into that directory and you can view the code formatted and make changes that way.

This also seems like a great exercise in cloning the code and making a git repo where you can get a dev instance up and running.

The way it is now sounds like a maintenance nightmare lol.