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• 10-15-2009, 11:06 AM

  neildt Joined on 08-07-2006, 5:35 PM Posts 16

  Difference Between FTP Publishing and having a FTP Server under IIS Reply Contact I'm fairly experience with regards IIS6 and am now upgrading our sites to IIS7.  My question is I noticed that you can configure a website to have FTP access using FTP Publishing - which I've configured using basic windows authentication, SSL and user isolation - and it works great basically the user can FTP into their own home directory where there website is hosted. So my actual question is for what reasons should I consider setting up a FTP Server under IIS7 instead of using this method rather than FTP publishing.

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• 10-15-2009, 10:13 PM

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  steve schofield Joined on 06-10-2002, 4:54 PM MI Posts 3,964

  Re: Difference Between FTP Publishing and having a FTP Server under IIS Reply Contact Are you referring to FTP built-in to w2k8?  vs. the FTP 7.5 add-on?  I don't think so but wanted to confirm.   It really doesn't matter if you use the FTP 'binding' inside the site or create a new site for FTP.  (if I understand correctly).  The one goal of having FTP on the site is save from having a separate site to maintain, such as you have in IIS 6 FTP.  the FTP 7.5 addon for w2k8 or builtin to w2k8 r2 is light years ahead of previous versions.  Steve Schofield Windows Server MVP - IIS http://weblogs.asp.net/steveschofield http://www.IISLogs.com Log archival solution Install, Configure, Forget

• 10-16-2009, 3:57 AM

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  neildt Joined on 08-07-2006, 5:35 PM Posts 16

  Re: Difference Between FTP Publishing and having a FTP Server under IIS Reply Contact Steve, thanks for the response.  So just to confirm, standard Win2008 comes with the normal FTP server set-up like IIS6.  The new add-on FTP 7.5 allows you to create a websites FTP profile within the www site set-up using the FTP Publishing e.g so that site can have multiple bindings. So my question really is - I assume it is best to using FTP Publishing when setting up a FTP site for a existing website ? Cheers Neil

• 10-16-2009, 8:15 AM

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  neildt Joined on 08-07-2006, 5:35 PM Posts 16

  Re: Difference Between FTP Publishing and having a FTP Server under IIS Reply Contact Following on from my previous message - I've noticed that when you create a FTP server (in IIS7) and it acts very similar to IIS6 with user isolation etc - which I can get working fine. My question is how and should I be using FTP publishing ?  For example I have a website with the site's phyiscal path set to c:\websites\localuser\mydomain (content of site in this folder).  I can get the site www content serving file. However, if I add FTP publishing to this site I get "home directory not accessible" when trying to FTP into the site using the username "mydomain" Where am I going wrong ? and what extra does FTP publishing offer me ?

• 10-19-2009, 4:41 AM

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  neildt Joined on 08-07-2006, 5:35 PM Posts 16	Re: Difference Between FTP Publishing and having a FTP Server under IIS Reply Contact BUMP

• 10-20-2009, 5:58 AM

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  Leo Tang - MSFT Joined on 12-11-2008, 9:47 PM Posts 928

  Re: Difference Between FTP Publishing and having a FTP Server under IIS Reply Contact Hi,   FTP for IIS 7.0 allows users to enable FTP for an existing Web site. It saves us from having a separate FTP site to maintain. There is indeed no a best way, setting up a FTP site for a existing website or creating a separate FTP site is depends on users’ preference. neildt: However, if I add FTP publishing to this site I get "home directory not accessible" when trying to FTP into the site using the username "mydomain" Please make sure the user "mydomain" has NTFS permissions on the Web site's content and authorization rule allows user “mydomain” Read and Write access the Web site's content. Below are some articles about FTP publishing, hope helpful for you: Adding FTP to a Web Site http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/303/adding-ftp-to-a-web-site/ Configuring FTP 7.5 User Isolation http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/305/configuring-ftp-75-user-isolation/ Since it is an new question, you can open a  new thread on IIS7 publishing forum for further support, more community members can help you in a more efficient way. Leo Tang Microsoft Online Community Support Please remember to mark the replies as answers if they help and unmark them if they provide no help.