Error: Create directory operation failed.

[RephoneYin]

Hi @morris , I met some problem when I upload files to server. I'm pretty sure the host, username and password are correct. We have 2 ftp servers. It works well when I upload to one server of them. But the other one gave me the error in console like error in console below.

Environment

C/S	OS	Version
Client	Windows	10
FTPServer	CentOS	6.7

gulpfile.js :

var gulp = require('gulp');
var gutil = require('gulp-util');
var ftp = require('vinyl-ftp');

function getTestConnection() {
    return ftp.create({
            host : '[xxx.xxx.xxx]',
            user : '[xx]',
            password : '[xxxxxx]',
            parallel : 10,
            log : gutil.log
        });
}

gulp.task('deploy', function () {

    var conn = getTestConnection();

    var globs = [
        'src/**',
        'css/**',
        'js/**',
        'fonts/**',
        'index.html'
    ];

    // using base = '.' will transfer everything to /public_html correctly
    // turn off buffering in gulp.src for best performance

    return gulp.src(globs, {
        base : '.',
        buffer : true
    })
    .pipe(conn.newer('/var/vinyl-ftp/')) // only upload newer files
    .pipe(conn.dest('/var/vinyl-ftp/'));

});

error in console :

[10:57:44] Using gulpfile E:\research\gulp\upload\gulpfile.js
[10:57:44] Starting 'deploy'...
[10:57:44] CONN
[10:57:44] READY
[10:57:44] MLSD  /var/vinyl-ftp
[10:57:44] MLSD  /var
[10:57:44] MLSD  /var/vinyl-ftp/src
[10:57:44] MLSD  /
[10:57:44] MLSD  /var/vinyl-ftp/css
[10:57:44] MKDIR /var
[10:57:44] 'deploy' errored after 95 ms
[10:57:44] Error: Create directory operation failed.
    at makeError (E:\research\gulp\upload\node_modules\ftp\lib\connection.js:1067:13)
    at Parser.<anonymous> (E:\research\gulp\upload\node_modules\ftp\lib\connection.js:113:25)
    at emitTwo (events.js:106:13)
    at Parser.emit (events.js:191:7)
    at Parser._write (E:\research\gulp\upload\node_modules\ftp\lib\parser.js:59:10)
    at doWrite (_stream_writable.js:307:12)
    at writeOrBuffer (_stream_writable.js:293:5)
    at Parser.Writable.write (_stream_writable.js:220:11)
    at Socket.ondata (E:\research\gulp\upload\node_modules\ftp\lib\connection.js:273:20)
    at emitOne (events.js:96:13)
[10:57:45] DISC

I'm wonder why it run this command _[10:57:44] MKDIR /var since the **/var**_ dir does exist!!! Expecting your answer

[morris]

This is probably related to #3

[morris]

Does it work with 0.5.0?

[RephoneYin]

Hi @morris , Thanks for your answer. I ran

npm install --save-dev vinyl-ftp@0.5.0

to install vinyl-ft of 0.5.0. And I got the same error as before.

[loszer]

check the target directory whether has the enough right to write, and the owner of it is specified user not root