Start Visual Studio and choose console application. Since we have configured the FTP server and uploaded files into it, let's start some serious business now. Using FileZilla or any FTP client upload files to your FTP server all files will go into the 'D:/FTPSITE'. To choose a folder, navigate to your D: drive and select the FTPSITE folder, click ok and you are done. From your ftpserver go to 'Edit' > 'Groups' then click on the Shared Folder (left pane second option) then click on 'Add' a pop-up will appear. Now the next step is to create a shared folder for saviing all the files. To do that first go to 'My Computer' > 'D:'.Īnd create a folder called FTPSITE.

Go to edit click onĬlick on 'Add' enter the user of your choice select the group (created in the previous step) from the dropdown.Ĭheck the 'Enable account and password' Checkbox and enter a password of your choice. Click on OK.Ĭlick on 'Add' a popup will appear to enter the group name of your choice and click Ok. Well just use the following link to download FileZilla, an open source FTP server:Īfter installation use the following procedure.ĭon't change the server address and port, however you can choose your own password or you can leave it blank. Before I get to the code let me first demonstrate how to configure a FTP server in Windows. In the past few days I have been working with the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) where I tried to configure my own FTP server and download a file from it through C# code.

Windows 7 filezilla server setup