If you want to generate a static website using the Nikola but need to deploy to a hoster who only provides FTP you can use ncftp to automate the process.

• Install ncftp. On Debian-based distributions apt install ncftp should work

• Save you server credentials to a bookmark so they do no appear in your nikola config

  • Log in to the FTP server: ncftp -u <username> ftp.ftp_server.com
  • Create a bookmark: bookmark <bookmark name>
  • Confirm whether you want to save your password or not
  • Quit

• Add a deploy configuration to you conf.py:

DEPLOY_COMMANDS = {
    'ftp': [
        "ncftpput -R <bookmark name> / output/*",
    ]
}

• Run nikola deploy ftp