Create symbolic links on server without SSH available?

Question

I got excited when I saw the following post but it doesn\'t cover my case: Mount an FTP server locally

Is there any way for me to create symbolic links on a remote s

Answer 1

Regular FTP is too abstract to know about symbolic links.

If the server supports custom commands, it might let you send the unix shell commands directly. Not all servers support this but some of them do.

If you have SFTP access (sometimes admins give users SFTP access but no SSH shell), SFTP protocol supports creation of symbolic links.