By Yoshimo on

Hi,
I'm a rookie drupal explorer and trying to get a hang of it by video tutorials. Everything works fine untill i want to install/upload a them or module.
I guess this question has been asked before but i couldn't find the answer to my problem.
Here is the complete Message:
Failed to connect to the server. The server reports the following message:
Cannot connect to FTP Server, check settings

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To continue, provide your server connection details

Connection method
FTP ( i have a sFTP connection but i can't choose it and i don't know if it matters)

Username:
I tried my drupal details, the server details and the database details but all of them result in zero upload or confirmation
Password

Your password is not saved in the database and is only used to establish a connection.

ADVANCED SETTINGS
Host:
localhost

Port:
21 (i have tried 22 and 3306 also)

The connection will be created between your web server and the machine hosting the web server files. In the vast majority of cases, this will be the same machine, and "localhost" is correct.
Port.

I can answer to some technical questions but i'm still a rookie.
Some help please ?

⋅ Categories: Drupal 7.x

Comments

Yoshimo’s picture

Yoshimo commented

Apperantly when i upload the files by my ftpclient there is no problem. But when i want to upload the files trought drupal it give me an error message :s

ravis’s picture

ravis commented

Are you uploading files using any FTP client??

Try FileZilal FTP client with following settings:
-------------------------------------------
Username: Your web hosting username. Same as cPanel username.
Password: your web hosting login password.
Server: domain.com
Port: 21
---------------------------------------------

Upload theme folder in:
sites/all/themes

I work at Drupar.com

shazi’s picture

shazi commented

Hi,

I'm running website at localhost... and my website full address is .. http://localhost/linuxfolk/ means im getting my new drupal site by going to this address...

As I'm new to drupal and trying to upload theme but its gives ftp connection error..

username = of website (suppose Admin )
password = of website (and admin password)
Server = localhost/linuxfolk
port = 21

i'm geeting error ...
# Warning: ftp_connect(): php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Name or service not known in FileTransferFTPExtension->connect() (line 54 of /var/www/linuxfolk/includes/filetransfer/ftp.inc).
# Failed to connect to the server. The server reports the following message:

Cannot connect to FTP Server, check settings

Can you help me I don't know what is wrong as i'm running site in localhost..

thanks in advance...

ravis’s picture

ravis commented

what software you are using for local server like XAMPP, WAMP etc??

On localhost, FTP will not work.
you need to copy paste theme folder on your local computer like:
c:/wamp/www/linuxfolk/sites/all/themes

I work at Drupar.com

shazi’s picture

shazi commented

your answer was right... and works now.. thanks...

Sonam Sodani’s picture

Sonam Sodani commented

Thanks!! this worked for me.

onde_sou’s picture

onde_sou commented

I had the same problem and i solve easily with this command:
sudo chown www-data:www-data -R /var/www/drupal(or your drupal web root name)/sites

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dehcar
Primary language Arabic
commented

You are right man you saved my life
but www-data:www.data didn't work for me
so i figured out from the error message that www-data is you server user or mybe you username
so for me on Fedora i tested on fedora 16/17/18/19

sudo chown apache:apache -R /var/www/drupal(or your drupal web root name)/sites

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lprancourt commented

Lost many hours with this issue , and that was the solution. Thank you!

lidiya’s picture

lidiya commented

i tried but it shows same warrning

mattrock1’s picture

mattrock1 commented

Solved my problem. Big thanks!

lofra’s picture

lofra commented

Bigs thanks :-)

jorge_vicente’s picture

jorge_vicente commented

Thank you for the solution.

It's works!

Regards!

aaronsthomas74’s picture

aaronsthomas74 commented

I know its been a while since you posted this, but worked perfectly thank you for posting it.

rucbbq’s picture

rucbbq commented

Your method is pretty helpful! Thank you very much!

pratishjha’s picture

pratishjha commented

what should i do for the same issue in mac localhost

hi_ten_ja’s picture

hi_ten_ja commented

https://www.drupal.org/forum/support/theme-development/2011-11-24/cannot-connect-to-ftp-server-check-settings-after-trying#comment-12503766

Let me know if you still have the same issue.

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PretaJ commented

Only u solved my problem.

JerryVBarr’s picture

JerryVBarr commented

how can i move my sad quotes site in to drupal platform i,m also getting FTP connecting error in wordpress.

hi_ten_ja’s picture

hi_ten_ja commented

sudo chown -R www:www /Library/WebServer/Documents/drupal_file/sites

sudo chown -R www:www /Library/WebServer/Documents/drupal_file/themes

as   www-data: illegal group name in MACOS

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Bunda3D commented

how would I do this in Windows with SSH remote development? Can I go to my local files, start a git bash command line in the root folder of a site, and then what command? Because 

sudo chown apache:apache -R /var/www/

is not working. 

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l.inux commented

The only correct solution is to setup an ftp server

sankhla.2’s picture

sankhla.2 commented

hello , i have same problem that 

i am cannot connect to FTP Server, check settings After trying to upload a Theme. It's give me error message 

  • Warning: Undefined property: Drupal\Core\FileTransfer\FTPExtension::$connection in Drupal\Core\FileTransfer\FTPExtension->connect() (line 16 of core/lib/Drupal/Core/FileTransfer/FTPExtension.php).
  • Failed to connect to the server. The server reports the following message:

    Cannot connect to FTP Server, check settings

 I am using xampp in mac os. Can someone help?