Hi, I'm pretty new to website design/hosting/etc.
I'm having issues SSHing into the godaddy file system, if that makes sense. I've been working to get git working with the website source files, and I'm stuck here. It seems I need SSH to set up git.
The weird thing is I am able to WinSCP into my site no problem. Well, I had some difficulty with that but was eventually able to do so with the following parameters:
Now, when I try to SSH into website.com with PuTTY, I keep running into brick walls. I've enabled SSH on GoDaddy. Here's the PuTTY configuration:
Whenever this is run, I get a PuTTY Fatal Error: Server unexpectedly closed network connection. The log info from the PuTTY window is as follows (website and IP changed):
Any ideas why WinSCP would work but SSH wouldn't?
I'm having issues SSHing into the godaddy file system, if that makes sense. I've been working to get git working with the website source files, and I'm stuck here. It seems I need SSH to set up git.
The weird thing is I am able to WinSCP into my site no problem. Well, I had some difficulty with that but was eventually able to do so with the following parameters:
Code:
Hostname: website.com
Port number: 21
File protocol: FTP, no encryption
Username: [email protected]
Password: password
Code:
Hostname: website.com
Port number: 22
Settings/Connection/Data/Auto-login username: tried both 'username' and '[email protected]'
Settings/Connection/SSH/Auth/private key file: tried both with and without RSA file downloaded from GoDaddy
Code:
2016-11-02 12:34:12 Looking up host "website.com"
2016-11-02 12:34:12 Connecting to xxx.xxx.xx.xxx port 22
2016-11-02 12:34:19 Server unexpectedly closed network connection
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