Can I upload an entire folder using FTP?

Question

I need to upload a full folder using FTP. Is there is any option for transferring a folder and all of its contents at once?

Answer 1

Use an FTP client such as LeechFTP or FileZilla or something similar. Many people swear by CuteFTP, but it's shareware last I checked. All support transferring a whole folder including directory structure.

Answer 2

1. have the user/client zip the folder
2. upload the zip file
3. unzip the folder server side.

Answer 3

Check this out.

You can also programmatically create a folder on the server, and then upload all files to that new folder.

Answer 4

FileZilla is great for this. If you don't want to download/install anything, this can be done with Internet Explorer. Go into the advanced options, and select Enable FTP folder view (outside of Internet Explorer). Then you can point an explorer window at your FTP server and drag-and-drop files and folders between explorer windows.

Answer 5

If you're using a standard command-line ftp client, the MPUT command will allow you to transfer all files matching a (shell glob-style) pattern, so MPUT * will send all files in the current directory. There is also MGET to retrieve files matching a pattern.

By default, both MPUT and MGET will prompt for whether to transfer each file before doing so. You'd probably want to turn off prompting with the "PROMPT" command (no argument; it's a toggle).

Answer 6

Firefox has a plug-in called FireFtp that is a nice ftp client.