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[onething]

I have a reseller account at a hosting that doesnt allow Ming in its PHP.

I have an exe of a program that needs Ming I'd like to upload to a server.

Unable to upload to the reseller, I try localhost on my xampp. But is it true you can't FTP to your own computer?

Whatever it is, my ioncube package foundry installation interface gets stuck at 'checking ability to create folders' and tells me to 'please check the FTP user has write permissions in the target folder.'

CHMod isn't even existant in Windows OS so forget that. And besides, I believe I read somewhere I quite simply couldn't FTP the files. And yet the installation package requires me to have a FTP username, password etc.

What can I do? :cursing::cursing::cursing::cursing::cursing:

thanks

[Alexander]

I am not completely sure of what you are wanting to do, although there is no restriction on hosting an FTP server on your Windows computer, setting up your gateway to allow the ports opened and routed to the appropriate computer running such, and have access to its service if that is what you are aiming for.

[onething]

Alexander said:

I am not completely sure of what you are wanting to do, although there is no restriction on hosting an FTP server on your Windows computer, setting up your gateway to allow the ports opened and routed to the appropriate computer running such, and have access to its service if that is what you are aiming for.

Can I FTP to my own computer from within my own computer? XAMPP would make me think so, but I read elsewhere that this was not possible.

If I can why am I being told by the Ioncube installer to check the writer permissions of the user I setup?

I added the user by going to XAMPP Filezilla Edit User Add User. But I wouldn't know how to solve this write issue because all I've ever known is to change CHMOD to 777 in a regular hosting.

And I read you can't CHMOD Windows, and my XAMPP is in Windows 7.

Edit: I get '450 Internal Error creating the directory'.

[Alexander]

If you connect to localhost as a server for whichever product needs the FTP access it will work provided you have an FTP server installed on the same machine.

If not connecting through localhost is not the case, the the folder your program is creating likely contains an invalid path (i.e. colons or whitespace in the directory name)

[onething]

Alexander said:

If you connect to localhost as a server for whichever product needs the FTP access it will work provided you have an FTP server installed on the same machine.

If not connecting through localhost is not the case, the the folder your program is creating likely contains an invalid path (i.e. colons or whitespace in the directory name)

The problem is when I 'browse for FTP folder' in the installation package, it tells me 'connection timeout'.

I'm using the same port number, 14147, and direction, 127.0.0.1, as I see when I click on XAMPP Control Panel -- Filezilla Svc-- Admin --

Yet when I click OK on the XAMPP interface as described above, it leads me to a table-ish sort of control panel called Filezilla Server (127.0.0.1), telling me I'm logged in, that it got authentication. But as I see in practice, this means diddly and it won't work when trying to upload real files into it, or browse through it from the interface of an installation package.

[onething]

Well just after writing that post I tried through port 21 instead of 14147, despite connecting through the default latter in the XAMPP control panel. And it's giving me a folder called 'incoming' whereas before it would just give me connection timeout. But I'm still being told that I can't create a folder in that directory, that I don't have permissions to do so because it's unable to check if I have permissions to do so...

[onething]

I've also tried changing permissions from within Windows 7, of the folders that pertain to the xampp isntallation. Doing so with the xampp folder and all its subfolders makes the instance sort of crash and you can't exit the 'Properties' menu without cancelling. But it seems to work OK when I apply it to the Incoming folder, or to the htdocs folder, and yet I still get the same error message from the Ioncube installation package I'm using, telling me to add permissions. So no luck, I'm afraid.

[onething]

It's worth noting that when I try to change permissions of a windows 7 folder and empty the checkbox of the read only option, whenever I go back to it it still has read only filled in black. The properties-- security-- edit... options can still be changed and remain changed when I reenter. So it's still making very little sense to me.

[Alexander]

Are you running (both the server and the installation) under an administrative account?

I would not recommend filezilla server as I've never used it, however that could work. You will need to read up on its configuration and set up a user that has read/write rights to the folder that ioncube needs to write to, "incoming" is likely a folder in a default FTP root folder where you should put your files, writing there with ioncube would not be beneficial.

Try to create a new FTP user and then connect to that, i.e. yournewuser@localhost or whichever it asks for.