Standalone Demo cannot login to FTP server localhost

[DanSearle]

Hi,

I'm having trouble setting up my Win XP Pro PC to create a Standalone Demo site.

When I run 'Configure Web Site Details...' I get the following error:

"The wizard is unable to login to the the FTP server localhost. Check the username and password.
The specific error is: The password was not allowed"

and that's as far as I can get.


This is how I installed everything -

I first followed the steps in the AUG, but the first time forgot to change the path for the Apache install to C:/ - so I uninstalled and tried to re-install it correctly. For some reason I have since been unable to get Apache to install - the installer always hangs about half-way through the process, and I have left it trying a good while so I'm sure it wasn't just being slow.

So, I gave up on that and tried to install Apache using PHPDev423 from http://www.firepages.com.au/

That has installed correctly it seems - Perl now works, http://localhost works, and there's MySQL and PHP working too (not relevant to Actinic I know but it's there).

I've also installed War-FTP.

I realised that by using PHPDev to install Apache would mean that the paths to the web root and the CGI-BIN would be different, for me it is now -
C:\phpdev\www
C:\phpdev\www\cgi-bin

and I was careful in setting up War-FTP to make sure it had those paths and permissions set correctly.

I've now run through the AUG's Troubleshooting, and War-FTP seems to be working correctly.

Any ideas for what I can do now?

[DanSearle]

Hi - I'm still stuck on this - anyone got any idea at all?

Cheers,
Dan

[NormanRouxel]

You can use XP's built-in FTP command to test the FTP server.

Open a Command Prompt (start / Run / type "cmd" / OK)

now enter ftp localhost

WarFTPd should prompt you for a user - enter your username

WarFTPd should prompt you for a password - enter your password

If you're not logged in now, then you've set-up the wrong username or password.

If logged in enter dir to get a directory listing. That should help you see where your FTP root is.

Other FTP commands can be found by entering ? (or help)

Use quit to exit.


You can also use the Network Test in Advanced / Network Setup. This may give you better info than the Wizard.

[DanSearle]

Hi Norman, thanks for the reply.

I tried all you suggested, and the FTP worked fine via the command prompt, but not via Actinic's Configure Web Site Details.

Then I tried using WarFTP's server admin account name ('sysadmin') and password to log in instead of the 'demo' account I set up when I followed the instructions. Now it works!?!

That doesn't make much sense to me but it seems to update the demo site on my PC so guess it'll do.

Thanks,
Dan