Dave,
Others will likely have a better procedure but we set up a
"virtual" directory in IIS Manager to direct the user to the root of their site.
Open IIS Manager > right-click on the FTP site and select New > Virtual
Directory. We give it the users login name. The path is <website
directory>\<website name>. This will direct the user to the root of the
site when they log in with IE or an FTP client.
JR From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Doherty Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2006 3:11 PM To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] WAY OT: FTP 'Default" Directory Hi, y'all-
I installed a new Windows
2000 server yesterday, and today one of the customers emailed me that
FTP lands him inside his directory structure and he can't climb up to the
root. He uses IE as his FTP client. I checked the FTP setup for his site, and it
is set up correctly to point to his root.
So I tried it with WS_FTP, and sure
enough, you get into a directory called "Default". With WS_FTP you can climb up
one level to the root. With IE, you cannot. (The "up" buton on
IE gives you the previous page visited.)
Thinking that the directory name
"Default" might be the culprit, I renamed it. Sure enough, IE and WS_FTP behaved
normally. So it looks like the server is routing FTP requests on its own to this
directory if it exists.
I searched for documentation on this, and
found nothing anywhere. Probably didn't look in the right place, but out of
curiosity, have any of you seen this one before?
-Dave Doherty
Skywaves, Inc.
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