[Xitami] FTP , data mode not working

[Alex Barna]

d calif wrote:

>  Once again, Thanks to ALL offering help and support!!!
>
>  FTP now working! BUT!
>
>  First note, I have a dynamic IP.

So do I, so I use https://www.dyndns.org/    for outside access.
I just update twice a month.

>  To get FTP server operating I had to put the external IP in the
>  default.cfg. Also Force IP to on. In addition Ports 8020, 8021, and
>  range 8020 - 8030 were openned in the router. BUT, having to put the
>  hard IP in default.cfg, means that I will have to manually edit the
>  default.cfg every time my dynamic IP changes. Not a good solution.
>  Here are my default.cfg

All I put in defaults.cfg to get it to work is,

[Ftp]
    Enabled = "1"

The rest of the settings work with the defaults in xitami.cfg
The default address is * which means it uses what ever it is.

Alex,

>
>  [Ftp] enabled = "1"

>  Limit = "25" Pipe = "64k pipe A"
>User-file = "ftpxxxxts.aut"
>  ipaddress = "63.163.33.138"
>force-ip = "1"
>passiveip = "63.163.33.138"




>
>  Please commit if you have a solution for dynamic IP other than the
>  current hard IP I have to use. I did try putting the domain
>  mysite.yi.org as ip addr, and passive ip, that didn't work, could
>  connect but not get the data port working, xitami kept returning the
>  local ip. The only way so far to get the external IP returned so
>  passive data transfer on 8020 worked was the above config.
>
>  If I am stuck with the above solution, can someone recommend a
>  utility that will get a string from a file and then replace a string
>  in another file, this has to be all command line or ini file
>  initiated. I have a Dynamic Update Client that saves a IP.txt with
>  the current IP, and the same client will execute another program upon
>  update of IP with dns service. So Update client saves IP, utility
>  will grab IP and replace the old IP in default.cfg. (it would be
>  great if Xitami did this with the DDNS module).
>
>  Again thanks to all who offered help......