# FTP suddenly failing in RWC?

**URL:** <https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/ftp-suddenly-failing-in-rwc/45833>\
**Category:** RapidWeaver Classic\
**Created:** [January 6, 2025, 6:00pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/ftp-suddenly-failing-in-rwc/45833 "2025-01-06T18:00:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![oysterhead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9fc29f/32.png) [@oysterhead](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/oysterhead)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2025, 6:00pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/ftp-suddenly-failing-in-rwc/45833/1 "2025-01-06T18:00:00Z")

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I’ve been updating a few sites over the past couple weeks, and built-in FTP publishing worked just fine until today. This is with multiple different sites/FTP servers. When I try the “test” from Publishing Setup, it stays on “Testing…” for quite a while, then responds with “Couldn’t sign in to your FTP server — Failure when receiving data from the peer.” Is there anyway to see a log of the testing procedure?

Any ideas what might be going on?

I haven’t changed any FTP settings, passwords, etc.. I’m on Sonoma 14.6.1. I can reach the sites fine by https.

Lastly, is there a decent (free?) FTP client for MacOS? I used to use Transmit but haven’t re-upped the subscription.

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**Author:** ![jbyfield](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/jbyfield/32/82_2.png) [@jbyfield](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/jbyfield)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2025, 7:12pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/ftp-suddenly-failing-in-rwc/45833/2 "2025-01-06T19:12:22Z")

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I could never get internal publishing to work and ended up with Transmit myself. Found other uses for the FTP client anyway so worth having.

Updated my Mac and had a look around and ended up with Filezilla which is free and does the basics.

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**Author:** ![LaPan](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/lapan/32/92_2.png) [@LaPan](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/LaPan)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2025, 7:31pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/ftp-suddenly-failing-in-rwc/45833/3 "2025-01-06T19:31:37Z")

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I’ve rarely had problems with RW’s publishing feature. Cyberduck is (at least was) a free ftp client I use from time to time for other things.

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**Author:** ![oysterhead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9fc29f/32.png) [@oysterhead](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/oysterhead)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2025, 8:57pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/ftp-suddenly-failing-in-rwc/45833/4 "2025-01-06T20:57:54Z")

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SOLVED: My problem was the Cloudflare proxy I’d recently setup. The solution is changing RW’s publishing setup to use the IP address for FTP connection rather than the hostname ([ftp.mywebsite.com](http://ftp.mywebsite.com)). Cloudflare proxies https traffic but not ftp traffic.

Thanks also of rthe tip on FileZilla, I’ll check that out.

I do wish there was a way to see the connection log of RW’s built in FTP.

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**Author:** ![cookie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d26b3c/32.png) [@cookie](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/cookie)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2025, 9:40pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/ftp-suddenly-failing-in-rwc/45833/5 "2025-01-06T21:40:45Z")

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Use cyberduck for the mac fast and easy to use for all uploads and free