FTP problem.

[Cringer]

Ok, the only thing I use FTP for is the Imperial League website. I have been having a ton of trouble with uploading stuff via FTP to the website. I am now on round two of talking it over with my host, after giving up a couple months ago.

I have changed settings, disabled firewalls......and nothings. The first time they said nothing was wrong on their side. This time is pretty much the same thing, although they are trying to help me find the problem.

This is my latest message from them, and I have no idea how to do what they ask....

"The problem here is with append/restart.
Append/Restart not permitted, try again

If there is any way to disable it on your own end, this could solve the problem.

Also, it is advised to have passive mode as off."

I have no idea how to disable append/restart. Also, I have passive mode off, and it still seems to me that it is going into passive mode. Frickin; driving me nuts, because I have a bitch of a time uploading/downloading things. Twice in the last week I had no problem uploading the FOF HTML, 180 files. But then at times I can't upload a single small file.

I am going nuts here. If anyone has any ideas, please post or PM me. Thanks.

Here is a sample of my FTP log during errors.....

200 PORT command successful
STOR 13roster.html
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for 13roster.html
226 Transfer complete.
transferred 24060 bytes in 0.481 seconds, 391.038 Kbps ( 48.880 KBps), transfer succeeded.
PORT 172,16,1,34,15,217
200 PORT command successful
STOR 13schedule.html
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for 13schedule.html
226 Transfer complete.
transferred 23900 bytes in 0.481 seconds, 388.438 Kbps ( 48.555 KBps), transfer succeeded.
PORT 172,16,1,34,15,218
200 PORT command successful
STOR 13summary.html
500 R not understood
PORT 172,16,1,34,15,219
500 L not understood
Port failed 500 L not understood
PASV
200 PORT command successful
Unable to parse PASV response
PASV
500 V not understood
PASV Not Supported
XPSV
500 V not understood
XPSV Not Supported
PORT 172,16,1,34,15,220
200 PORT command successful
STOR 14roster.html
500 R not understood
PORT 172,16,1,34,15,221
500 L not understood
Port failed 500 L not understood
PASV
200 PORT command successful
Unable to parse PASV response
PASV
500 V not understood
PASV Not Supported
XPSV
227 Entering Passive Mode
connecting data channel to
PORT 172,16,1,34,15,224
200 PORT command successful
STOR 14schedule.html
500 R not understood
PORT 172,16,1,34,15,225
500 L not understood
Port failed 500 L not understood
PASV
200 PORT command successful
Unable to parse PASV response
PASV
500 V not understood
PASV Not Supported
XPSV
227 Entering Passive Mode
connecting data channel to
PORT 172,16,1,34,15,227
200 PORT command successful
STOR 14summary.html
500 R not understood
PORT 172,16,1,34,15,228
200 PORT command successful
STOR 15roster.html
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for 15roster.html
Error reading response from server.
transferred 16384 bytes in 4.166 seconds, 30.725 Kbps ( 3.841 KBps), transfer cancelled.
Transfer request completed with status: Pausing
PORT 172,16,1,34,15,230
Error reading response from server.
Port failed
PASV
It appears that the connection is dead. Attempting reconnect...

[gstelmack]

What FTP software are you using? It sure looks like its attempting passive mode even though you told it not to. Try CuteFTP or WSFTP.

[jeff061]

Filezilla and SmartFTP are my favorites.

[Cringer]

I use either WS_FTP or Filezilla. It does it on both, it also did it on CuteFTP a while back when I tried that. The FTP client does not matter at all....

[Cringer]

bump.

i'm dying here.

[Joe]

maybe try frontpage?

[BrianD]

It looks like your FTP program is trying to initiate an active transfer, and once that fails it tries to initiate a passive transfer....which also fails.

You said you did try this without a firewall in place?

Looking up the error message you are getting, it looks to be a problem on the server side. Try a google search on "500 R not understood" and you'll see what I mean.

[jeff061]

Yep, only thing I could think of was turning off your firewall, or bypassing your router(are you going through a router?).

Other than that I have no idea what it could be on your system.