I’ve been asked to upload a simple holding page for a company, to a URL that was bought by someone else. I recieved the host, user and password but not the directory. I tried using httpdocs but got this error message:
“Cannot complete upload because file or folder could not be accessed (550 httpdocs no such file or directory).”
I’ve been told that this is Mac (that I use) to PC problem. But that sounds like a load of baloney to me. I’ve contacted the URL purchaser to ask him for the directory name, but just in thinking ahead is there anything else I should advise him on, or request from him?
Use a regular FTP application to open up the address, and see what they named the Web root that way. It’s not a PC problem – vanishingly few Web servers run on Windows – it’s an Apache problem, in that Apache can be configured to use ANY folder as the doc root.
Walter
On Jul 1, 2012, at 11:16 AM, Richard Heap wrote:
Hello all,
I’ve been asked to upload a simple holding page for a company, to a URL that was bought by someone else. I recieved the host, user and password but not the directory. I tried using httpdocs but got this error message:
“Cannot complete upload because file or folder could not be accessed (550 httpdocs no such file or directory).”
I’ve been told that this is Mac (that I use) to PC problem. But that sounds like a load of baloney to me. I’ve contacted the URL purchaser to ask him for the directory name, but just in thinking ahead is there anything else I should advise him on, or request from him?
Once you find the right name to plug into the Directory field in Freeway, you should definitely use that in preference to a third-party FTP tool. Your server will stay neater with all orphaned files automatically cleaned up.
Walter
On Jul 1, 2012, at 12:45 PM, Richard Heap wrote:
Just downloaded Filezilla, and all seems to be working. Many thanks. I thought as much re the PC-Mac issue.