Following up on my own thread. After a few emails back and forth with GoDaddy, we figured out that they were wrong in their first email and that ftp from inside out is not allowed - something about security risk (didnt make much sense, since ftp access from outside in is allowed). They offered to get a different plan that would cost about 10 times the price of what im paying now - not an option.
In case others here are in the same shoes , here's how i solved the problem:
- signed up for a free (ad based) hosting here: reallyfreehosting.com (there are other free hosts out there..
- wrote a script to create the product.xml file, download it from my site, and upload it to google
- put the script in a cron job on the free hosting site..dont forget to set it to executable.
here's the script (just replace all the variables and directories):
#!/bin/sh
USERNAME_TO="aaaaa"
PASSWORD_TO="bbbbb"
SERVER_TO="uploads.google.com"
USERNAME_FROM="xxxxx"
PASSWORD_FROM="yyyyy"
SERVER_FROM="your_domain.com"
FILE="zzzz_products.xml"
FEED_DIR="/{your_store}/feed"
#create new feed file
curl "http://{your_domain}.com/{your_store}/googlefroogle.php?feed=yes&upload=no&type=products"
sleep 10
echo
echo "file:$FILE created ... "
echo
login to server and get product.xml file
ftp -n $SERVER_FROM <<EOF
user $USERNAME $PASSWORD_FROM
cd $FEED_DIR
get $FILE
quit
EOF
echo "ftp download from server:$SERVER_FROM file:$FILE ...done!"
login to google server and upload the file
ftp -n $SERVER_TO <<EOF
user $USERNAME $PASSWORD_TO
put $FILE
quit
EOF
echo "ftp upload to server:$SERVER_TO file:$FILE ... done!"
greenhat:
I emailed my Host (GoDaddy), and got this reply:
Dear xxxx,
Thank you for contacting Online Support. On shared Linux hosting accounts, ftp-connect is supported. Please make sure that your code is correctly configured.
Please let us know if we can assist you in any other way.
Sincerely,
so, they claim that they support it, yet the script stalls during the ftp_connect function - no error message is produced. any ideas? anyone?
thx
