FTP settings for OS X

[UncleDoug]

I've posted on this before but am still confounded on this.

Any of you playing with EE on your Mac with 10.4.1, what are your FTP server settings.
I think I have the Path Setup correct though.

Any help would be great!

[Pekka]

Without knowing anything about Mac OS X, usually the ftp server is set up so that

- each user has own root path, i.e. the location on disk user arrives after login. This is the ftp root EE is looking for.
- each user has own permissions to create, delete, chmod, rename, up- and download...
- each user can be restricted to own directory (chrooted) so user can not browse "up" from root.
- user can have restricted number of simultaneous logins, and other limits.

So, main steps in troubleshooting is to
1. check connection to ftp server (server on, open firewall in and out from server to allowed visitor IP)
2. check that login works (user permissions for username)
3. check that root path is correct and exists on disk
4. check that browsing works (user permissions)
5. check that creating directiories work (user permissions)
6. check that upload works (user permissions, limits)
7. check that dowload works (user permissions, limits)
8. check that chmod works (SITE command allowed)