Hi,
      I am new to lunarpages and am having trouble uploading using WSFTP Pro. I use a program called Web Studio to build my website and it creates an html file and a folder containing the graphics (mostly jpeg photos in my case) for each page. I can upload the html files but when I try to upload the folders I get the following error message in the WSFTP activity window.
MKD testgallery
550 testgallery: forbidden file name
CWD testgallery
550 testgallery: no such file or directory

        I have no idea what is happening here. I'm green at all this as I have only ever had 1 site up with the 1 host. Details that may help are:
I am signed up for a free account.
Page names are all in lower case eg:testgallery, k1, k2 etc.
The largest folder is 90 kb.
The images inside the folders are numbered (by Web Studio) IMAG0000 in upper case.
I am uploading into a blank site. When I first connected to my site it showed a file called index.html. When I could not upload I deleted the index.html file and tried again without success. Please help as I am stumped.
     My account name is   bobd
     My login is          ***********
Sorry about the long post.

[ August 09, 2001: Message edited by: Stephan ]

Please make any file folders through your site manager while we figure out this problem.

Just to clarify things, we won't *EVER* ask you for your password.  We do have access to all of your account information.  Just your username for logging on to your account is fine.

Hi,

I'm assuming you're still trying to upload via FTP. Make sure you're trying to upload using ftp1.lunarpages.com

If FTP fails, post here again so that the admins can check your account to see what's wrong and use the browser upload function which you can access at http://65.204.170.131/cgi-bin/manager.cgi

Hope that helps  

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Originally posted by Bob D:
Hi,
      I am having no trouble connecting to my site and have now created a directory and put my little test site into it-but it still wont upload the graphics folders. The html files are there and the site works-but no graphics at all.
      I tried uploading the graphics folders with the browser upload but the browse function wouldn't allow me to select a folder, only the first image inside it. This is no good as the html page code calls for the folder to get the graphics and can't find it.
      I've run out of ideas here and need help.

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That's right. With the browser upload, you'll need to specify the files you wish to upload.

First, go into the Base Directory and create a new directory eg. images(if that's where all your images are) using the Create New button under "Create a new folder in the current directory".
Next, under "Select a directory:", enter the 'images' folder and hit the Jump to selected dir. button. That should load your new 'images' directory.
Once you're in the new images directory, you should see "File uploads -- Upload files from your hard drive to current directory". Proceed to upload the image files or if you have more than 5 files to upload, you may click on the "[ show ten uploads fields ]" link.

If your pages in your Base Directory has the correct references to call on the images in your 'images' directory, eg.

code

Quote

 <img src="images/yourpic.gif"> 

it should work fine.

Hope that helps!  

Thanks for your replies. You hit it on the head Julie. My graphics need to be in folders (it's the way Web Studio works).
I don't understand why I can't upload folders via ftp. My site is currently hosted by Virtualave and I have never had this problem there. If uploading folders via ftp is barred here I would appreciate confirmation as I will have to look elsewhere. This would be a pity as this site had a good feel to it and I wanted to upgrade if it all worked well. My website is over 250 pages now, which means 250 plus folders,more than 30 of them are indexes with around 15 graphics files in each. Not really viable a folder at a time.

The problem seems to be that certain ftp dameon create directories just like they create files and therefore basic accounts (which can not have most file types) can not create directories.  Hopefully the ftp dameon developer will have a fix for this soon.

Ted,
        Whatever you did has solved my problem and my site loads fully now. Many thanks to everyone for your help.
       Bob D
       (happy camper)