Comments on: Dreamweaver FTP Can't Connect

By: Diane Vigil

Diane Vigil — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 23:16:53 +0000

Yes, I understood. Regardless of the IP address issue, I'm just saying that putting the http:// in front of http://ftp.yourwebsite.com will not work in any case.

EDITED: Oh, I see what's happening. When we write ftpDOTsomething, WordPress puts the http:// in front of it. (How annoying!)

By: AR

AR — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 23:06:30 +0000

Oh ye apologies, it came out wrong.

I meant to say change your ftp host from http://ftp.yourwebsite.com to it's IP address

By: Diane Vigil

Diane Vigil — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 20:51:00 +0000

Thanks! Although I don't think this would work in any case:

http://ftp.yourwebsite.com

It would have to be something like:
http://ftp.yourwebsite.com
or
yourwebsite.com

But … whatever works. :)

By: AR

AR — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 20:41:12 +0000

Alright I got mine to work now after opening up a support ticket with my host.

Baisically change your http://ftp.yourwebsite.com to IP address like mentioned above, in your host directory just put /public_html/ and use passive FTP.

Now it works perfectly fine for me so if anyone is still having trouble try it out, might work out for you as well.

By: Diane Vigil

Diane Vigil — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 18:05:30 +0000

Hi, JG. I don't have a Mac, so I can't advise there — but I've helped clients with Macs connect via Dreamweaver, so I don't think that's the issue.

You didn't mention when you got the GoDaddy hosting, but their FTP setup is a little different. See the second part of my Comment #19:

The thing with GoDaddy is finding your actual server path, which isn't obvious when you FTP in. Let's say your username is xyz444. Your server path for Dreamweaver might be:

Root Directory: /

Web URL: http://yoursite.com/home/content/x/y/z/html/
-or-
http://yoursite.com/home/content/x/y/z/somenumbers/html/

I got that information from GoDaddy techs — but, to be honest, they don't all have that information.

See if that helps. If not, I would call GoDaddy.

By: JG

JG — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 16:24:17 +0000

I seem to be having an issue with connecting to FTP through Dream Weaver CS4 on Mac OSX version 10.5.7. I was uploading fine to my website through Dream Weaver. I then decided to redo the site to make it better and now for the life of me I can't connect anymore.

It doesn't even look like its trying to connect, the error appears instantly. I merely click test and it says can't connect. There is no wait time, changing the time out time did nothing.

I have tried the IP address and nothing. I have tried the ftp address and nothing. I have changed my password even to see if I was typing it wrong and still nothing.

I honestly don't think its even trying to connect. I have been at this for a few days now and I'm pretty close to losing my mind. I paid a lot of money to get a host and domain name through Godaddy.com and its just not working.

Any ideas as how I should approach this?

By: Diane Vigil

Diane Vigil — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 18:41:44 +0000

Hard to tell. Have you tried any of the solutions posted above?

By: Rizal

Rizal — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 16:57:24 +0000

i am still having same the problem.. an error can not find the host? any ideas….

By: Diane Vigil

Diane Vigil — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 21:07:17 +0000

Okay. Comment #19 was for GoDaddy hosting. I would check with your web host, as there may be something different about the FTP setup. But the "server is down or not accepting connection" does not sound good.

I saw that you tried passive FTP and SFTP. Since that didn't work, I'd check with your host.

By: AR

AR — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 21:04:05 +0000

I have just switched to Host Media UK last week. Just tried the comment #19 way by adding the extensions but it doesn't seem to go anywhere. One thing I've noticed is that when I test it using my site's IP address and Port number it then gives me another error saying "Dreamweaver could not connect because the server is down or not accepting connection"