please excuse this basic question but here goes....

Given that FTP is insecure, and passwords and files are not encrypted, what is the best way to upload a large number of files to your httpdocs folder?

The Plesk File Manager appears to only let you upload one file at a time, so thats no good.

Do the servers (Red Hat Enterprise with Plesk) come with Secure FTP installed?

Thanks
Ben

PS. The Plesk File Manager is pretty good, except that you can only browse from the domain level down. Is there a file manager that the root can use to browse the whole file system?

You can use SCP to transfer files over SSH, but it's not very fast, and isn't reccomended for incredibly large files.

Thanks Kevin,

Actually I just worked that one out myself, and WinSCP is working excellently.

Now all I've got to do is find where the httpd.conf file is. Is there a master one for the server, or does each domain have its own one?

Thanks
Ben

That depends. What OS are you using and are you using any control panels?

Red Hat Ent with Plesk 7.5 Reloaded.

Thanks
Ben

Then there are several. You will find a "master" file at /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf. Then from there it will include the conf from httpd.include, which in turn includes the file located at your vhost like so:

/home/httpd/vhosts/domain.com/conf/httpd.include

This is where the info for that vhost will be. Be sure to put any changes you want to make into this file though:

/home/httpd/vhosts/domain.com/conf/vhost.conf