Windows Server 2012 FTP issues

[gingerneil]

Morning all, and Merry Christmas!

I have had Cumulus up and running for a few years - using a 1080 from Maplin linked to a server running windows 7, apache webserver and filezilla to transfer the files to the webserver.

Owing to other issues, I have had to replace the server hardware and am now running Windows Server 2012. This comes with IIS for both webserver and FTP. I have these up and running, and everything seemed ok. However, in the last few days I have been trying to get realtime data uploading to the webserver - I am using a cumulus.xml file from an android app config, transfering and processing this using 'realtime' via the 'files' tab. No matter what settings I use I simply cant get both the normal website files and the cumulus.xml (or a realtime.xml file) uploading successfully at the same time. I have used every combination of 'passive', 'rename', 'delete files' etc etc - but when the realtime is working the normal files fail to upload and vica versa.

There must be others using this combination os Windows Server and IIS, and I am hoping someone will be able to share their configuration so that I can get everything back up and running.

Thanks,
Neil

[steve]

Could there be a limit to the number of simultaneous ftp connections? If you turn on ftp logging the ftplog.txt and realtimeftplog.txt files may throw some light.

[gingerneil]

Hi Steve,
Thanks for the reply. I need to check this on the server but according to the docs the default is unlimited - so unlikely to be the reason. I'll turn the logs on and take a look in there. I may end up switching back to filezilla for the FTP side - the webserver seems to be running without problems.

[gingerneil]

All sorted now - there is a setting deep within the IIS config that controls if renamed files are able to replace files already there. Changed this to 'yes' and everything is happy.
However.. now getting lots of 'lost contact' errors! Grr.