By Drops on

Have a fresh installed Drupal D7Beta1 on Ubuntu 10-10 in a VirtualBox.

When I try to download a new theme (http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/genesis-7.x-1.x-dev.tar.gz) Drupal asks for the FTP settings. Providing the information, Drupal objects with message:

Cannot connect to FTP Server, check settings

FTP is up and running:

ali@ali-VirtualBox:~$ ftp localhost
Connected to localhost.localdomain.
220 (vsFTPd 2.3.0)
Name (localhost:ali): ali
331 Please specify the password.
Password:
230 Login successful.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp> quit
221 Goodbye.
ali@ali-VirtualBox:~$

Maybe a problem with access rights?

I followed this installation procedures:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Drupal
http://www.edukatr.com/how-to-be-up-on-drupal-7-on-amazon-ec2-ubuntu-9-1...

⋅ Categories: Drupal 7.x

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Drops commented

I continued research in google.

Seems others have same / simliar problems:

http://drupal.org/node/930988

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Drops commented

Found the solution here: http://drupal.org/node/911222

chiappa’s picture

chiappa commented

thank you for posting the link to the solution!

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jmsosso commented

For me, using a fresh install of Drupal 7.9, the solution was change localhost to 127.0.0.1 in advanced settings.

:-?

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niwin commented

this fixed my problem. thanks!

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Lise42 commented

My /tmp is wide open. Entering 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost didn't help. So, I am stumped. Please help.

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Lise42 commented

I tried using the download to computer and upload from computer method instead. I am still getting the ftp error?

I don't have ftp running on my local computer, or it's not running correctly. Should that matter when I'm trying to use the other method?