ftpupload failing with Errno 0 or no reason at all - with solution

[Alan Jackson]

I am posting this for future reference, since I was unable to find the answer with Google, in future

hopefully, this will save someone some time and effort.

The answer is: setting secure_ftp = False in the config file.

Everything is running like clockwork now. Thanks for a wonderful product.

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The issue

I just installed weewx on my Ubuntu 16.04 workstation.

$ sudo python

Python 2.7.12 (default, Nov 12 2018, 14:36:49) 

[GCC 5.4.0 20160609] on linux2

Everything works great, except ftp to my website. I have triple checked the user and password, and it still fails with either

Reason: [Errno 0] Error

or

Reason:

neither of which give me much of a clue.

Here is part of the log. I am mystified. (I also tried both weewx and /weewx as the target directory)

Jan 26 12:45:15 carina weewx[11582]: restx: Wunderground-PWS: Published record 2019-01-26 12:45:00 CST (1548528300)

Jan 26 12:45:17 carina weewx[11582]: cheetahgenerator: Generated 14 files for report StandardReport in 2.22 seconds

Jan 26 12:45:26 carina weewx[11582]: imagegenerator: Generated 12 images for StandardReport in 8.49 seconds

Jan 26 12:45:26 carina weewx[11582]: copygenerator: copied 0 files to /var/www/html/weewx

Jan 26 12:45:27 carina weewx[11582]: ftpupload: Attempt #1. Failed uploading weewx/daywind.png to ajackson.org. Reason: [Errno 0] Error

Jan 26 12:45:27 carina weewx[11582]: ftpupload: Attempt #2. Failed uploading weewx/daywind.png to ajackson.org. Reason:

Jan 26 12:45:27 carina weewx[11582]: ftpupload: Attempt #3. Failed uploading weewx/daywind.png to ajackson.org. Reason:

Jan 26 12:45:27 carina weewx[11582]: ftpupload: Failed to upload file weewx/daywind.png

Jan 26 12:45:27 carina weewx[11582]: ftpupload: Attempt #1. Failed uploading weewx/yeartempchill.png to ajackson.org. Reason:

Jan 26 12:45:27 carina weewx[11582]: ftpupload: Attempt #2. Failed uploading weewx/yeartempchill.png to ajackson.org. Reason:

Jan 26 12:45:27 carina weewx[11582]: ftpupload: Attempt #3. Failed uploading weewx/yeartempchill.png to ajackson.org. Reason:

Jan 26 12:45:27 carina weewx[11582]: ftpupload: Failed to upload file weewx/yeartempchill.png

......

Jan 26 12:55:29 carina weewx[11582]: ftpupload: Got error while attempting to make remote directory /weewx/smartphone

Jan 26 12:55:29 carina weewx[11582]:      ****  Error:

Jan 26 12:55:29 carina weewx[11582]: ftpupload: Got error while attempting to make remote directory /weewx/smartphone

Jan 26 12:55:29 carina weewx[11582]:      ****  Error:

Jan 26 12:55:29 carina weewx[11582]: ftpupload: Got error while attempting to make remote directory /weewx/smartphone

Jan 26 12:55:29 carina weewx[11582]:      ****  Error:

Jan 26 12:55:29 carina weewx[11582]: ftpupload: Unable to create remote directory /weewx/smartphone

Jan 26 12:55:29 carina weewx[11582]: ftpgenerator: Caught exception <type 'exceptions.IOError'>: Unable to create remote directory /weewx/smartphone

Jan 26 12:55:29 carina weewx[11582]:         ****  Traceback (most recent call last):

Jan 26 12:55:29 carina weewx[11582]:         ****    File "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/reportengine.py", line 325, in run

Jan 26 12:55:29 carina weewx[11582]:         ****      n = ftp_data.run()

Jan 26 12:55:29 carina weewx[11582]:         ****    File "/usr/share/weewx/weeutil/ftpupload.py", line 137, in run

Jan 26 12:55:29 carina weewx[11582]:         ****      self._make_remote_dir(ftp_server, remote_dir_path)

Jan 26 12:55:29 carina weewx[11582]:         ****    File "/usr/share/weewx/weeutil/ftpupload.py", line 240, in _make_remote_dir

Jan 26 12:55:29 carina weewx[11582]:         ****      raise IOError, "Unable to create remote directory %s" % remote_dir_path

Jan 26 12:55:29 carina weewx[11582]:         ****  IOError: Unable to create remote directory /weewx/smartphone

[HoracioDos]

Hello Alan

I had the same problem today and I found a solution here.

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/weewx-user/uTlR9Bw8Mto/uL4WKgViBQAJ

you have to config the following keywords in [[FTP]]

        secure_ftp = True

        secure_data = False