Add an FTP or SFTP Server

You can add an FTP server or SFTP server as a delivery channel for Publisher.

If the destination file name supplied to the scheduler contains non-ascii characters, UTF-8 encoding is used to specify the file name to the destination FTP server. Your FTP server must support UTF-8 encoding or the job delivery will fail with "Delivery Failed" error message.

The FTP server or SFTP server must be accessible from the public internet.

Publisher doesn't support FTP over TLS / SSL (FTPS). You can't use FTP over TLS or SSL for delivery. Use SFTP for secure file transfer.

1. From the Administration page, under Delivery, select FTP, and then click Add Server.
2. Enter the server name, host name, and port number for the FTP or SFTP server.
   The default port for FTP is 21. The default port for Secure FTP (SFTP) is 22.
3. To enable Secure FTP (SFTP), select Use Secure FTP.
4. If the FTP server is behind a firewall, select Use Passive Mode .
5. Select Create files with Part extension when copy is in process to create a file on the FTP server with a .part extension while the file is transferring.
   When the file transfer is complete, the file is renamed without the .part extension. If the file transfer doesn't complete, the file with the .part extension remains on the server.
6. Optional: Enter the security information.
   1. If your server is password protected, enter the User name and Password.
   2. Select the Authentication Type: Private Key or Password
   3. Depending on the authentication type selection, select the private key file or specify the private password.
      If you selected Private Key as the authentication type, make sure you upload the SSH Private Key file in the Upload Center.
7. Optional: Enter the host, port, user name, password, and authentication type (None, Basic, Digest) of the proxy server.
8. Optional: To deliver PGP encrypted documents to the FTP server:
   1. From the PGP Key list, select the PGP keys you uploaded in Security Center.
      This step updates the filter command in the Filter Command field.
   2. To sign the encrypted document, select Sign Output.
      This step adds a -s parameter to the existing filter command in the Filter Command field.
   3. If you want to deliver PGP encrypted document in ASCII armored format, select ASCII Armored Output.
      This step adds a -a parameter to the existing filter command in the Filter Command field.
9. In the Access Control section, deselect Public.
10. From the Available Roles list, select one or more roles you want to provide access to the delivery channel, and click Move to add them to the Allowed Roles list.
11. Click Test Connection.

    If the connection test is successful, the Host Key Fingerprint field is populated. You can't save the server configuration if theHost Key Fingerprint field isn't populated.

    When Publisher delivers jobs to the SFTP server, the Host Key Fingerprint value saved with the server configuration is compared with the fingerprint of the host key returned by the SFTP server. If the SFTP server host key's fingerprint doesn't match the fingerprint saved in the server connection configuration, the connection will be rejected.

12. Click Apply.