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Hosting company and programmer say there is no difference in uploading (ftp) to a nix than to a windows server, however, my hair is falling off trying to get anything on the remote.
Both dreamweaver and CuteFTP fail to upload the .asp files for one reason or another. CuteFTP won't even connect to the server because of some socket problem. Dreamweaver instead, does connect, attempts to put files on remote but fails. IIS does not show any detailed error log, except for someone's failing to upload files. This has been actually a second attempt in installing/uploading this asp script. On my first attempt I used a prior hosting company and did succeed in uploading the entire script and although I could browse through it online I couldn't make it work because I could not change the permissions to make the database writeable. All attempts to make that folder/file writeable in my hard drive to later upload it to remote, failed. So I decided to change to a new friendlier windows hosting company.
On my second attempt at this new hosting, I have tried using/and not using PASV, uploading to root as www/, /www and /www/. The hosting company said they could easily access my remote server so I thought the problem might be in my set up. I have 2 firewalls, zonelab in my PC and a hardware firewall bridged to a DSL connection. This has been a non issue while working with unix and Apache. Never a problem.
One additional thing, when I finally connect to the remote server through dreamweaver's ftp client, I do not see anything but the root www/. The techs at the hosting company say they can see the entire tree structure of the server (it is a virtual dedicated).
I searched the net thoroughly and could not find one single instance of anyone having this problem. I have also glanced through 5 pages of threads in this particular forum and could not find anything related.
Am I out of luck? Could anyone give me some advice, please? I have home XP edition in my pc (firewall on).
P.S. I am avoiding unbridging the modem and the hardware firewall because it is a major headache.
Dreamweaver instead, does connect, attempts to put files on remote but fails
I do not see anything but the root www/
Most times you only see www and the logs folder, so that seems ok.
By the way, the way some hosts are set-up, you cannot simply highlight a file and click upload (put) - you have to drag (from local) and drop the file under www (remote).
Did you try a different file, like test.asp, and try uploading that?
You can have test.asp be very simple like:
<%response.write "only a test"%>
Then test it like http://www.example.com/test.asp
Yes, I have tried all of the above including uploading html files, dragging and dropping, etc... Nothing worked. On virtual dedicated servers I can actually see all the configuration and complete paths (usr/local/var/sbin... etc). None of this here.
