FTP Problem

[RoyReed]

I'm having a problem uploading to a particular FTP server. When I right-click on a file and select 'Upload to FTP' I get an error message:

Could not complete the transfer. FTP Error: No such file or directory.

However if I select 'Reload from FTP' the file is downloaded correctly.

In Projects > Project Properties > Publishing Settings the FTP Directory is listed as:

FTP::SiteName\public_html|

and if I click on Select... to bring up the Browse dialog and then double-click the site name it connect correctly to the FTP server with the root directory showing as 'public_html' in the dialog status bar.

I've tried deleting the project settings and redoing them from scratch, but I just get the same error. Other sites connect and upload correctly. Can anyone tell me what the problem is?

WB2011 v11.1.0.128
Win7 64

[RoyReed]

So, no ideas from anyone!

[reacher]

This happens to me too.

Try going to that project's settings and recreating the remote folder using the Publishing Settings/FTP dialogue. Hit the Select button and connect as usual and when you navigate to the correct folder, (in this case public_html), click the OK button. If you get a 'nothing is selected etc.' dialogue (which will happen if you are in the public_html directory anyway and the path field is empty), just click yes. Note how the path in one of my projects differs from yours:

FTP::ProjectName\/public_html|

Yours is missing the forward slash and it needs to look like the above example to work with the right-click upload. If it is still not right, go through again and try selecting a different folder, clicking OK, then going back to the right one (public_html). Once the path looks like it does in the image, it should work. I often have to try two or three times to get this right but once set, it is good to go.

[RoyReed]

I've tried recreating the remote folder and the entire project from scratch several times but for this particular site it never seems to work. I've got several other sites on the same (shared) server where the setting work first time - like you say giving something like FTP::ProjectName\/public_html| with the extra forward slash. It just never works on this one particular site.