PHP cURL error The URL was not properly formatted - php

Question

I am trying to do a simple cURL file upload from one server to another. The problem is I get Error #3 from the cUrl error codes: The URL was not properly formatted.
I have copied the url into my browser and logged onto the ftp site without a problem. I have also verified the proper formatting and searched the web and this site for an answer without any success.
Here's the code:
$ch = curl_init();
$localfile = '/home/httpd/vhosts/homeserver.com/httpdocs/admin.php';
echo $localfile; //This reads back to proper path to the file
$fp = fopen($localfile, 'r');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'ftp://username:password#199.38.215.1xx/');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_UPLOAD, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_INFILE, $fp);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_INFILESIZE, filesize($localfile));
curl_exec ($ch);
$error_no = curl_errno($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
if ($error_no == 0) {
$error = 'File uploaded succesfully.';
} else {
$error = 'Upload error:'.$error_no ;//Error codes explained here http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/libcurl-errors.html';
}
echo $error;
I have also tried this:
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'ftp://199.38.215.1xx/');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, 'username:password');
I still get error #3.
Any ideas?

Answer 1

your remote URL needs to contain the path and name of the destination file, as shown in this example
<?php
// FTP upload to a remote site Written by Daniel Stenberg
// original found at http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/php/examples/ftpupload.html
//
// A simple PHP/CURL FTP upload to a remote site
//
$localfile = "me-and-my-dog.jpg";
$ftpserver = "ftp.mysite.com";
$ftppath = "/path/to";
$ftpuser = "myname";
$ftppass = "mypass";
$remoteurl = "ftp://${ftpuser}:${ftppasswd}#${ftpserver}${ftppath}/${localfile}";
$ch = curl_init();
$fp = fopen($localfile, "rb");
// we upload a JPEG image
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $remoteurl);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_UPLOAD, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_INFILE, $fp);
// set size of the image, which isn't _mandatory_ but helps libcurl to do
// extra error checking on the upload.
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_INFILESIZE, filesize($localfile));
$error = curl_exec($ch);
// check $error here to see if it did fine or not!
curl_close($ch);
?>