With my current set up I have a Google Cloud compute engine machine running Debian and Plesk 12.5. The hosting, web space (https) etc. However, I am having some issues trying to use FTP.

All of the Google Cloud Platform instructions seem to be about setting up FTP in other OS like debian, etc. Connection just times out. On the Windows 2012 Server, I have setup FTP in IIS properly, but the firewall will not let me connect from the outside with FileZilla. On the other side of the spectrum is Dragondisk, a free file-transfer manager that supports Amazon S3 and Google Cloud but, oddly enough, not FTP, SFTP or FTPS. The overall design of Dragondisk.

Using plain text FTP my connection keeps hanging on the 'Retrieving directory listing.' Status: Resolving address of domain.com Status: Connecting to IPADDRESS:21. Status: Connection established, waiting for welcome message. Status: Logged in Status: Retrieving directory listing. If I use FTP over TLS I get unroutable address.

Status: Resolving address of domain.com Status: Connecting to IPADDRESS:21. Status: Connection established, waiting for welcome message. Status: Initializing TLS.

Status: Verifying certificate. Status: TLS connection established. Status: Logged in Status: Retrieving directory listing.

Status: Server sent passive reply with unroutable address. Using server address instead. Trouble shooting #1 Opened all ports i could see in the logs for FTP on Google cloud firewall and on Plesk firewall. Trouble shooting #2 Made sure the external IP address of server was correct and static trouble shooting #3 After some searching I found i should use passive FTP with use servers public IP address enabled however, this didn't work.

As mentioned in the comments, additional passive ports needed to be opened. In addition to this, Plesk FTP component had to be changed to passive ports. As per the guide found at accessed Add passive port range to config file, load ip_conntrack_ftp module into the system. Make sure that you have the following line in the iptables settings: iptables -A INPUT -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT If the server is behind a NAT, the ip_nat_ftp module should also be loaded: # /sbin/modprobe ip_nat_ftp.

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