My FTP batch script is stuck on "200 PORT command successful" and doesn't upload the files to server

Question

I've tried everything I found in Google results about

200 PORT command successful

but nothing has helped.

Can anyone assist to solve this issue please?

The code of "runScript.bat:

ftp -s:"C:\automation\fileup.bat" myserver.com

The code of "fileup.bat:

username
password
ascii
cd "/public_html/reports/"
lcd "C:\automation\tests\HtmlReporter"
prompt
mput *
disconnect
close
bye

The console log:

C:\automation>ftp -s:"C:\automation\fileup.bat" myserver.com
Connected to myserver.com.
220---------- Welcome to Pure-FTPd [privsep] ----------
220-You are user number 7 of 500 allowed.
220-Local time is now 04:40. Server port: 21.
220-This is a private system - No anonymous login
220 You will be disconnected after 3 minutes of inactivity.
User (server26.000webhost.com:(none)):
331 User username OK. Password required

230-OK. Current restricted directory is /
230-449 files used (4%) - authorized: 10000 files
230 16742 Kbytes used (1%) - authorized: 1536000 Kb
ftp> ascii
200 TYPE is now ASCII
ftp> cd "/public_html/reports/"
250 OK. Current directory is /public_html/reports
ftp> lcd "C:\automation\tests\HtmlReporter"
Local directory now C:\automation\tests\HtmlReporter.
ftp> prompt
Interactive mode Off .
ftp> mput *
200 PORT command successful

Answer 1

This looks like a typical problem with the FTP active mode. The server cannot connect back to your machine to establish a data transfer connection.

That typically happens as nowadays most client machines are behind a firewall or NAT or both, what prevents the FTP active mode from working. To make the active mode working you need to open your firewall (not recommended) and/or configure NAT routing rules.

See my article on FTP modes and configuring network for the active mode.

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Or you use the passive FTP mode. The Windows ftp.exe client does not support the passive mode though, what makes it pretty useless nowadays.

So you need to use another command-line FTP client. A majority of FTP clients do support the passive mode.

For example with WinSCP your runScript.bat would be like:

winscp.com /command ^
    "open ftp://username:[email protected]/" ^
    "cd /public_html/reports/" ^
    "lcd C:\automation\tests\HtmlReporter" ^
    "put *" ^
    "exit"

Note that WinSCP defaults to the passive mode.

For details see WinSCP guides for:

• Automating file transfers to FTP server
• Converting Windows FTP script to WinSCP script

(I'm the author of WinSCP)