PHP ftp_put warning Warning: ftp_put() [function.ftp-put]: Type set to I. in

Aditya P Bhatt picture Aditya P Bhatt · May 27, 2011 · Viewed 25.6k times · Source

When i try to upload files using PHP's ftp_put function, earlier it was erroring:

Warning: ftp_put() [function.ftp-put]: No data connection

Now, i tried to put passive mode on:

ftp_pasv($conn_id, true);

then comes error:

Warning: ftp_put() [function.ftp-put]: Type set to I. in

ftp_login is done properly and it says Successfully.

Now it gives new warning: Warning: ftp_put() [function.ftp-put]: abc.txt: Cannot open or remove a file containing a running program.

Any ideas, why file not tranferring ?

Thanks !

Here is my code snippet:

    $conn_id = ftp_connect($ftp_server) or die("Couldn't connect to $ftp_server");

    $login_result = ftp_login($conn_id, $ftp_user_name, $ftp_user_pass) or die("You do not have access to this ftp server!");

    if ((!$conn_id) || (!$login_result)) {
        // wont ever hit this, b/c of the die call on ftp_login
        echo "<span style='color:#FF0000'><h2>FTP connection has failed! <br />";
        echo "Attempted to connect to $ftp_server for user $ftp_user_name</h2></span>";
        exit;
    } else {
        //echo "Connected to $ftp_server, for user $ftp_user_name <br />";
    }

    //turn passive mode on
    ftp_pasv($conn_id, true);

    $upload = ftp_put($conn_id, $destination_file.$name, $filename, FTP_BINARY);

    if (!$upload) {
        echo "<span style='color:#FF0000'><h2>FTP upload of $filename has failed!</h2></span> <br />";
    } else {
        echo 'Uploaded';    
    }

 ftp_close($conn_id);

Answer

Martin picture Martin · Jun 15, 2015

http://php.net/ftp_pasv

$resource = ftp_connect('ftp.example.com');
ftp_login($resource, 'username', 'password');

# set this to true
ftp_pasv($resource, true);

ftp_get(...);
ftp_put(...);

I was recieving same (not very descriptive) error message E_WARNING ftp_get(): Type set to I..

I found out that it is because server running PHP did not have visible public IP (it is virtual server on my workstation).

Solution was using passive mode. Default setting (active mode) did not have problem on live server, because live server has visible public IP.