Question

I was working on with a FTP upload from my php page.

<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set('display_errors', true);
flush();

$ftp_server = "myserver";
$ftp_user_name="myuser";
$ftp_user_pass="mypass";
$remote_file="myfile.txt";
$file="myfile.txt";

// set up a connection or die
$conn_id = ftp_connect($ftp_server) or die("Couldn't connect to $ftp_server"); 
$login_result = ftp_login($conn_id, $ftp_user_name, $ftp_user_pass);


if (ftp_put($conn_id, $remote_file, $file, FTP_ASCII)) {
 echo "successfully uploaded $file\n";
} else {
 echo "There was a problem while uploading $file\n";
}

// close the connection
ftp_close($conn_id);
 ?>

It gives me a Warning in browser like

Warning: ftp_put(): Access is denied. in /var/www/html/ftpcheck.php on line 17. There was a problem while uploading myfile.txt.

I checked the access permissions on the file. But its accessible. Can any one tell me why this happens?

Answer 1

Most probably this is a permission issue. When you are uploading a file via FTP, you also need to check the directory’s permission. When you’re saying it’s accessible, it doesn’t mean it’s writable.