FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions¶

Q: Should I better use FTP or WebDAV?

A: WebDAV mostly have the advantage, that it does not require any firewall reconfiguration. If you can connect to a webserver on port 80 (HTTP) or port 443 (HTTPs) then you can do WebDAV too (but it may be possible that a firewall/proxy in between filters out the WebDAV commands). On the other hand the most available clients does not support resuming a WebDAV transfer once it get interrupted.

This lead us to FTP - FTP usually requires firewall reconfiguration - the control connection on port 21 + the randomly selected ports for the data connections. The most available FTP clients support resuming up- & downloads if they got interrupted.

Q: How does Nephthys sends emails?

A: Nephthys assumes that there is a local configured mail server. Nephthys itself uses the PHP PEAR package 'Mail' for mailing, which requires a sendmail compatible mail server. The code for mailing can be found in nephthys_buckets.php in the function notify().