FTP file uploading problem

Richard Miller wow at together.net
Tue Jun 22 18:58:51 EDT 2004


Gosh, I wish I knew what you were saying here. I appreciate the  
feedback, but just don't have enough experience in this particular area  
to figure out what to do with your feedback. Can you give me a few more  
clues...or perhaps someone else can explain the feedback?

Thanks so much.
Richard Miller


On Jun 22, 2004, at 6:34 PM, Sannyasin Sivakatirswami wrote:

> Richard,
>
> I just solved similar problems at our new box at OLM...
>
> You may need to use a full path from root if there are no symlinks in  
> the user home directory.
>
> e.g.
>
>  put url  
> "ftp://user%40somedomain.com:password@www.himalayanacademy.com/../../ 
> var/www/formdata/guestbook.dat"  to download a file.
>
> i got to this by using interarchy, backing off the URL to a double  
> slash
>
> ftp://user%40somedomain.com:password@www.himalayanacademy.com// to get:
>
>
> etc
> bin
> usr
> var
>
> etc
> appeared, then drilled back up via var/www/formdata/ (a directory I  
> had created from root)
>
> key is, find our where the server drops you if you have no path... nav  
> from there. in this case ../../ back out of the home directory.
>
> good luck.
>
>
>
>
> On Jun 22, 2004, at 11:22 AM, Richard Miller wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to upload a file to my public directory on a hosted server  
>> (at IPowerWeb), but having no luck. It's either something I'm doing  
>> wrong in the coding or some problem accessing the server from Rev.
>>
>> In Explorer, I can use this address to allow access to my public ftp  
>> directory.
>>
>>      ftp://anonymous@portable-pro.com@host180.ipowerweb.com/
>>
>> This works fine... no problem seeing the files there. I can also use  
>> this info to ftp a file there via an FTP program. No problem  
>> uploading the file.
>>
>> This doesn't work from within Rev:
>>
>>       libURLftpUpload fld  
>> 1,"ftp://anonymous%40portable-pro.com@host180.ipowerweb.com"
>>
>> (or any variation I've tried yet). It gives me an immediate ERROR  
>> message (using PUT THE RESULT).
>>
>> Solutions?
>>
>> Thanks.
>> Richard Miller
>
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