This page reports the result of publishing a topic to a FTP server. If a check page URL was specified in the Topic Settings then a link to it is included with the results so it can be easily checked.

If the topic failed to publish, the most likely causes are:

• A network problem – the FTP server could not be reached

• One of the FTP server settings (set from the Topic Settings page) is wrong. This might be:
  • The server name is wrong
  • The path given for the data is wrong (you may be trying to access a protected directory)
  • The username or password is wrong.

You can check the settings by manually using an FTP command client to login to the server, using a series of entries which might look like this (on Windows):

  d:\>ftp pages.caver.co.uk
  Connected to pages.caver.co.uk.
  220-Welcome to Caver Homepages
  220 pages.caver.co.uk FTP server ready.
  User (homepages.demon.co.uk:(none)): fred
  331 Password required for fred.
  Password: ********
  230-User fred logged in.  Access restrictions apply.
  ftp> cd test
  250 CWD command successful.
  ftp> quit
  221 Goodbye.

Here, pages.caver.co.uk is the server name, fred is the user name, ******** represents the password typed in, and test is the directory path.