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FTP Access

OEDQ is supplied with an internal FTP server to allow remote access to the configuration file area and landing area files. The FTP server can be accessed via a third-party FTP client using any valid OEDQ username and password and connecting to the port specified by the ftpserver.port in the director.properties file. (In a default Windows installation, this will be port 9007).

The following directories are available via the FTP server:

config	This corresponds to the config directory in your OEDQ installation.
landingarea	This corresponds to the landingarea directory in your OEDQ installation.
projectlandingarea	This corresponds to the project specific landing areas in your OEDQ installation.
commands	This corresponds to the commandarea directory in you OEDQ installation.

In order to upload files using the FTP server, the user must belong to a group that has been granted the 'System: Upload files via FTP' permission (See User Administration for more information on assigning permissions to users and groups).

Creating project-specific landing areas

The internal FTP server can be used to create a project-specific landing area. To do this, use your FTP client to navigate to the projectlandingarea directory and create a new subdirectory within it.

The subdirectory should be named the same as the project:

Note that project names that contain forward-slash (/) or backslash (\) characters will not work with the above syntax as these characters are assumed to mean a directory level. You should therefore not use project names with these characters in them if you wish to use this functionality.

Note: As described in project-specific landing areas, the actual subdirectories for the project-specific landing areas are named using the internal IDs of the relevant projects. The FTP server can translate this into the appropriate project names for project-specific landing areas.