Hoping there is an IIS PHP guru around...
I'm trying to use the standard FTP_PUT command in PHP with passive mode enabled, however I keep getting this error message:
Warning: ftp_put(): php_connect_nonb() failed: No such file or directory (2) in "....root to my script"
Yet, when I try the same script on an Apache server with a different host, it works perfectly! My IIS host says there is nothing their end which would block this, ie. firewall, transfer blocking, etc... Server is running: PHP 5.4.9 - FTP is enabled.
Tried the same script on another IIS server with a different host, PHP verison 5.3.28 - Same problem. Both hosts are baffled.
I've tried different ways to FTP in PHP, using CURL and file_put_contents - Still no joy!
Is there some sneaky configuration required in IIS to make PHP FTP just work!?? Please help...
As requested... Here is my FTP code
$conn_id = ftp_connect($ftpHOST);
// login with username and password
$login_result = ftp_login($conn_id, $ftpUSER, $ftpPASSWORD);
if ((!$conn_id) || (!$login_result)) { //failed connection/login
echo "FTP connection has failed!";
}
else {
// try to upload file
ftp_pasv($conn_id, true); //set passive mode
if (ftp_fput($conn_id, $remoteFILE, $localFILE, FTP_BINARY)) {
echo "Successfully uploaded";
} else {
echo "There was a problem while uploading";
}
}
ftp_close($conn_id); // close the connection
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I have a PC that is running some FTP via PHP that I know used to work 1-2 months ago, but now I return to it I find that the PC is no longer working. I know I have been using the PC but I cannot think of what might have changed.
The PHP is throwing out error messages reading
Unable to build data connection: Connection refused
...when I use the ftp_put() function.
The cut down code I am using is:
<?php
$trackErrors = ini_get('track_errors');
ini_set('track_errors', 1);
$server="***.***.***.***";
$port=21;
echo "<LI>Connecting to $server:$port<BR>";
$conn_id = ftp_connect($server,$port,9999999) or die("<BR>Unable to connect to ".$server.":$port server.");
if ( !$conn_id ) {
$errmsg = $php_errormsg;
echo "<BR><LI>ERR:$errmsg";
}
else {
$passive=false;
echo "<LI>Setting Passive Mode=$passive";
ftp_pasv($conn_id, $passive);
$user="*********";
$pass="*********";
echo "<LI>Connecting as $user/*****";
if (!ftp_login($conn_id, $user, $pass)) {
$msg = "Failed to login to $selected_server as $user; <BR>check logincredentials in the Settings";
echo "<BR><LI>$msg";
$errmsg = $php_errormsg;
echo "<LI>ERR:$errmsg";
return $msg;
}
ftp_set_option($conn_id, FTP_TIMEOUT_SEC, 10000);
if (!#ftp_put($conn_id, "test.txt", "C:......test.txt", FTP_BINARY)) {
echo "<BR><LI>ftp_put failed";
$errmsg = $php_errormsg;
echo "<LI>ERR:$errmsg";
}
echo "<HR>Done";
}
?>
the output when running this as a webpage is
Connecting to ***.***.***.***:21
Setting Passive Mode=
Connecting as *******/*****
ftp_put failed
ERR:ftp_put(): Unable to build data connection: Connection refused
Done
The result is that the ftp_put() gives the error message and leaves a zero (0) byte file with the right filename on the server.
The strange thing is is that
the same code/connection info works on another laptop ok
the same connection info works ok using FileZilla when pushing a file
the problem occurs on several servers (ie. it's not just one specific destination that has the problem)
Also, this doesn't seem to have anything to do with the passive mode (it fails with and without this enabled)
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks
Abe
You are using the active FTP mode. In the active mode the server tries to connect to the client. In most network configurations, that's not possible as the client machine is usually behind a firewall.
That's why the server fails with:
Unable to build data connection: Connection refused
It's specifically ProFTPD error message for this situation.
See my article on the active and passive FTP connection modes for details.
The code can work on other machines, if they have firewall disabled or if they have rules that allow incoming traffic on unprivileged ports.
FileZilla works because it defaults to the passive mode (as most modern FTP clients do).
You have claimed to try the passive mode too, yet to get the same error message.
That's because you are using the ftp_pasv call incorrectly.
You have to move the ftp_pasv call after the ftp_login.
$user = "*********";
$pass = "*********";
echo "<LI>Connecting as $user/*****";
if (!ftp_login($conn_id, $user, $pass)) {
// ...
}
$passive = true;
echo "<LI>Setting Passive Mode=$passive";
ftp_pasv($conn_id, $passive);
The documentation clearly suggests it:
Please note that ftp_pasv() can only be called after a successful login or otherwise it will fail.
For a similar issue (just with Pure-FTPd), see PHP upload via FTP - ftp_put() I won't open a connection to x.x.x.x (only to y.y.y.y).
Having spent hours on this, I am out of luck. This script worked perfectly until yesterday. The script generates XML and dumps it as a file (5kb) to a remote FTP server. The script has not changed, nor has our host changed anything. The FTP server company has changed something (they said IP change yesterday) (but claims nothing apart from this). This IP resulted in a different ftp_server which has worked fine.
When I attempt to run the script, I get the following error regardless of whether "ftp_pasv($conn_id, true);" is there or not / disabled:
Warning: ftp_fput() [function.ftp-fput]: Opening ASCII mode data connection in ...
Then it gives the line which contains "FTP_ASCII" below.
When I have the ft_pasv section there only (as per original script), an additional error of the following still appears with the following:
Warning: ftp_fput() [function.ftp-fput]: data_accept: SSL/TLS handshake failed in ...
This is for the same line as the above error.
They were originally on a self-signed SSL. Now, due to my issue, they are now on a 'correct' SSL issued by a well known company. No errors display on Filezilla upon connecting.
Importantly, I can upload via Filezilla with no issues, with or without passive mode
Code above the below code in the script is correct for generating the file as it appears on the script page, once loaded. It just won't dump the file on the server. Here is the connecting to the server bit:
//Connect to the FTP server
$ftp_server = 'import.ftpserverdomain.com';
$ftp_user_name = 'CORRECT-USERNAME';
$ftp_user_pass = 'CORRECT-PASSWORD';
// set up basic ssl connection
$conn_id = ftp_ssl_connect($ftp_server) or die("CONNECTION ERROR");
// login with username and password
$login_result = ftp_login($conn_id, $ftp_user_name, $ftp_user_pass) or die("LOGIN ERROR");
$directory = ftp_pwd($conn_id); // /
ftp_pasv($conn_id, true);
$fp = fopen($filename, 'w');
fputs($fp,$file_contents);
fclose($fp);
$fp = fopen($filename, 'r');
$path_with_file = $directory.$filename;
if (ftp_fput($conn_id, $path_with_file, $fp, FTP_ASCII)) {
echo "Successfully Uploaded $File\n";
} else {
echo "There was a problem while uploading $File\n";
}
fclose($fp);
unlink($filename);
ftp_close($conn_id);
Any help is much appreciated. Sorry if I lacked any information. I'll be happy to provide any.
It sounds to me like PHP can't find your CA Certs, if you are running this on a linux box, this is something I have encountered before. Some searching should help but basically PHP's OpenSSL integration needs pointing at your cacerts directory so it can use these to validate the SSL connection it is attempting to make.
I fixed this issue. Hopefully this helps someone. The issue turned out to be server (HostGator). They do not allow FTP over TLS on a shared account.
Despite this working for a year, switching hosts resolved the issue.
I'm trying to upload a file from my webserver to my game server through a script. The problem is that it can't find the directory.
The full directory is /174.34.132.106 port 27015/tf/addons/sourcemod/configs/tf2items.weapons.txt
This path didn't work so I asked the hosting about it and they insisted that /tf/addons/sourcemod/configs/tf2items.weapons.txt is the correct path but this doesn't work either. The game server is running on a windows server and i'm pretty sure the web server is running on linux. Is my code wrong, do I have to replace the spaces in the directory with %20. Thanks in advance!
$ftp_server="174.34.132.106";
$ftp_user_name="Username";
$ftp_user_pass="Password";
$remote_file = "tf2items.weapons.txt";
$file = "weapons/tf2items.weapons.txt";//tobe uploaded
if(!file_exists($file)) echo "The local file does not exist";
$conn_id = ftp_connect($ftp_server) or die('Unable to create the connection');
$login_result = ftp_login($conn_id, $ftp_user_name, $ftp_user_pass);
ftp_chdir($conn_id, "174.34.132.106 port 27015/tf/addons/sourcemod/configs/");
echo ftp_pwd($conn_id);
if (ftp_put($conn_id, $remote_file, $file, FTP_ASCII)) {
echo "successfully uploaded $file\n";
exit;
} else {
echo "There was a problem while uploading $file\n";
exit;
}
// close the connection
ftp_close($conn_id);
I noticed that the FTP server you're connecting to is using a non-standard port, so it's probably not making the connection. You need to specify the port in the ftp_connect, like so:
$ftp_server="174.34.132.106";
$ftp_port = "27015";
$ftp_user_name="username";
$ftp_user_pass="password";
$remote_file = "tf/addons/sourcemod/configs/tf2items.weapons.txt";
$file = "weapons/tf2items.weapons.txt";//tobe uploaded
// set up basic connection
$conn_id = ftp_connect($ftp_server,$ftp_port) or die('Unable to create the connection');
The die() will stop the script if it's unable to make the connection. You can add the same after your ftp_login line to make sure that it's actually logging in.
Edit To make sure your file exists, try this above the ftp_put line.
if(!file_exists($file)) echo "The local file does not exist";
Edit 2 After reading down on ftp_put, it says that the remote_file does not support directories. You'll need to use ftp_chdir first.
ftp_chdir($conn_id, "tf/addons/sourcemod/configs/");
Then for remote_file, use just tf2items.weapons.txt. You can still use filepaths for the local file.
If that's a Linux server ensure that you use correct case for directory names.
"tf/addons/sourcemod/configs" is not the same as "TF/addons/sourcemod/configs";
I'm trying to list some files from an external FTP server using php ftp functions on a Windows shared hosting, but I'm having several problems.
I firstly tried with a couple of web applications like ajaxplorer and net2ftp, but I got frustrated and I decided to make a very basic script for testing..
<?php
$ftp_server = "alinuxftpserver";
$ftp_user = "user";
$ftp_pass = "pass";
// set up a connection or die
$conn_id = ftp_connect($ftp_server) or die("Couldn't connect to $ftp_server");
// change temp folder (windows)
putenv("TMP=D://inetpub//webs//domain//net2ftp//tmp");
echo getenv('TMP');
// try to login
if (#ftp_login($conn_id, $ftp_user, $ftp_pass))
{
echo "Connected as $ftp_user#$ftp_server\n";
}
else
{
echo "Couldn't connect as $ftp_user#$ftp_server\n";
}
if(ftp_pasv( $conn_id, true ))
echo "Passive mode, it worked<br/>";
else
echo "Passive mode, it didn't work<br/>";
$contents = ftp_rawlist($conn_id, ".");
var_dump($contents);
ftp_close($conn_id);
die;
?>
On my localhost (linux) it returns an array, while on the windows hosting it returns:
Warning: ftp_rawlist() [function.ftp-rawlist]: php_connect_nonb() failed: No such file or directory (2) in D:\inetpub\webs\domain\ftp.php on line 26
bool(false)
Can't understand.. the directory should be "/" on the external ftp server and of course there are some files & folders (2 folders and 1 file).. In fact on my MAMP installation it works well.
Hosting guys told me that the server configuration is ok.
use ftp_pasv($conn_id, true); some ftp connections will work in passive mode only
I'm not 100% sure, but I guess, you should use $contents = ftp_rawlist($conn_id, "/");
instead of $contents = ftp_rawlist($conn_id, ".");
Check your FTP server logs. In my case, the pasv_address was set to a wrong IP address.
Better late than never... I had the same problem. With a Linux server everything worked great, but with Windows Server (many versions) we had many problems, including with ftp_nlist() returning an empty array. This worked for us, but I don't know why!
ftp_nlist($handler, '*');
When i try to upload files using PHP's ftp_put function, earlier it was erroring:
Warning: ftp_put() [function.ftp-put]: No data connection
Now, i tried to put passive mode on:
ftp_pasv($conn_id, true);
then comes error:
Warning: ftp_put() [function.ftp-put]: Type set to I. in
ftp_login is done properly and it says Successfully.
Now it gives new warning: Warning: ftp_put() [function.ftp-put]: abc.txt: Cannot open or remove a file containing a running program.
Any ideas, why file not tranferring ?
Thanks !
Here is my code snippet:
$conn_id = ftp_connect($ftp_server) or die("Couldn't connect to $ftp_server");
$login_result = ftp_login($conn_id, $ftp_user_name, $ftp_user_pass) or die("You do not have access to this ftp server!");
if ((!$conn_id) || (!$login_result)) {
// wont ever hit this, b/c of the die call on ftp_login
echo "<span style='color:#FF0000'><h2>FTP connection has failed! <br />";
echo "Attempted to connect to $ftp_server for user $ftp_user_name</h2></span>";
exit;
} else {
//echo "Connected to $ftp_server, for user $ftp_user_name <br />";
}
//turn passive mode on
ftp_pasv($conn_id, true);
$upload = ftp_put($conn_id, $destination_file.$name, $filename, FTP_BINARY);
if (!$upload) {
echo "<span style='color:#FF0000'><h2>FTP upload of $filename has failed!</h2></span> <br />";
} else {
echo 'Uploaded';
}
ftp_close($conn_id);
http://php.net/ftp_pasv
$resource = ftp_connect('ftp.example.com');
ftp_login($resource, 'username', 'password');
# set this to true
ftp_pasv($resource, true);
ftp_get(...);
ftp_put(...);
I was recieving same (not very descriptive) error message E_WARNING ftp_get(): Type set to I..
I found out that it is because server running PHP did not have visible public IP (it is virtual server on my workstation).
Solution was using passive mode. Default setting (active mode) did not have problem on live server, because live server has visible public IP.
The last error you are seeing happens when the FTP daemon is stuck with the uploaded file open and waiting for you to write to it.
Anytime you successfully open a connection over an FTP server, be prepared to close the connection with the following function when the process completes or terminates due to any errors.
ftp_close($conn_id);
It's possible your script is leaving its connections open and the FTP server is getting confused by this. Try adding ftp_close in the appropriate places and see if the script runs more smoothly.
I've tried using the ftp functions in PHP and found it was much easier to use file_put_contents() like the following:
$remote_file = "ftp://username:password#host.com/path/to/file.txt";
file_put_contents($remote_file, $file_contents);
You can still check if it was successful and all that good stuff of course too.
Your ftp setup looks ok, try putting the filename $destination_file.$name in a single variable, dump the variable and make sure this file exists with absolute path if it is not in the same folder as your script. That is the only detail I saw in a quick glance, that could choke your upload.
Make sure your file is not opened in an editor! And if the file is .txt you can use FTP_ASCII although being in binary should not cause a problem.
Good-luck!
I found its solution as below:
I just talked to EUKHOST server support
Main point in this was that the support person now opened a passive port range for FTP on server, and he told us to try the FTP upload now. If you could try it with some testfile and it went through successfully..
Add following lines at the end of
open /etc/vsftpd.conf and add
pasv_promiscuous=YES___ at the end.
In my case, the issue triggering this error was that the file I was trying to upload was too large for the recieving server's configuration.