Changing IIS FTP service information

The IIS FTP Service Edit form displays the settings that can be changed by the Site Administrator. You can change IIS FTP service information any time after you add it.

To change the IIS FTP service Settings:

1. Open the Site Administrator Home page.

2. In the IIS FTP Service area, select Overview.

3. On the IIS FTP Service Overview page, click the Configure tab.

4. On the IIS FTP Service Edit page, provide the following information:

5. Specify the following information in the Feature Configurations area:

- In the Server Connection Timeout text box, enter the time (in seconds) that an unused client connection remains in the open.

- Check the Enable FTP Site Logging option to enable FTP site logging..

- Select Log Type.

- Microsoft IIS Log File Format: Microsoft IIS format is a fixed (non-customizable) ASCII format. It records more items of information than the NCSA Common format.

- W3C Extended Log File Format: W3C Extended format is a customizable ASCII format with a variety of different fields.

6. Specify the following information in the Site Visitors Permissions area:

- Check the Allow File Download (Read) box to provide read access. This allows you to read and download files. If this permission is removed, then users (including you) will not be able to log on to the site's FTP site.

- Check the Allow File Upload (Write) box to provide write access. This allows you to upload the files and change the contents.

- Important: These permissions are applied only to the ftproot directory and not propagated to virtual directories created by you.

7. Specify the following information in the Site Message Settings area:

- Change the existing Welcome Message. This message is displayed when the user logs on to the FTP Server.

- Change the existing Exit Message. This message is displayed when the users logs off from the FTP Server.

- Change existing the Maximum Connections Message. This message is displayed to each new client trying to connect to the site, when limit for the maximum number of client connections to the FTP service is reached.

8. Click Save to commit the changes made to the IIS FTP service.