Question

I have installed and enabled SSH2 in my CentOS WHM/CPanel server, here is from PHP INFO:

ssh2
SSH2 support enabled
extension version 0.11.2
libssh2 version 0.18
banner SSH-2.0-libssh2_0.18
remote forwarding enabled
hostbased auth enabled
polling support enabled
publickey subsystem enabled

Registered PHP Streams https, ftps, compress.zlib, php, file, glob, data, http, ftp, ssh2.shell, ssh2.exec, ssh2.tunnel, ssh2.scp, ssh2.sftp

However, anytime I try to use the SSH2 PHP functions to receive a file, I get this:

Warning: ssh2_scp_recv(/home/XXXX) [function.ssh2-scp-recv]: failed to
open stream: Is a directory in /pathtoFile on line 16

Here’s the code:

if($connection = ssh2_connect('www.server.com', 22)){
    echo("connected");
}else{
    echo("NOT connected");
}

if(ssh2_auth_password($connection, 'username', 'mypassword')){
    echo("password ok");
}else{
    echo("password WRONG");
}

if(ssh2_scp_recv($connection, '/home/pathtoDLfile', '/home/pathtoLocationDestination')){
    echo("received");
}else{
    echo("NOT received");
}

echo("end");

Answer 1

Please check ‘/home/pathtoDLfile’ and ‘/home/pathtoLocationDestination’ to ensure that they are file names, not directory.

Note especially that the destination location (‘/home/pathtoLocationDestination’) needs to be a file name, not just a directory path. You can append your desired filename to the path if you have currently specified only the directory name.