If you're publishing to an external host (not Blog*Spot) by FTP (or SFTP), you may be seeing any of several errors in the log
If so, you may want to check your FTP Publishing setting. The FTP Path setting points to the location of your blog, relative to the root folder in the FTP server.
If the value for your FTP Path is "/", you should change it to ".", or possibly vice versa. Some servers require a setting of "/", which points to the absolute path of the root folder on the server; others require relative paths, such as ".", which points to the FTP root. This issue is discussed in Blogger Help Group: Publishing Trouble Bizarre Blogger Publishing Problem, help!!, and in my article Path Variances When Publishing By FTP.
We've noted in some discussions that, after you change the path to ".", for instance, the Blogger script may change the setting to "./", or even "/". But your initially changing it to "." appears to be a key step, nonetheless. Save the setting, Republish, and test.
Besides the Publishing FTP Path, which indicates where the main blog is stored, there are additional settings, of equal importance. Blogger Help: What is the FTP path? discusses this, and more, in greater detail.
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Error 550: Access is denied.
Error 550: Requested action not taken: file unavailable.
Error 550: The system cannot find the path specified.
If so, you may want to check your FTP Publishing setting. The FTP Path setting points to the location of your blog, relative to the root folder in the FTP server.
If the value for your FTP Path is "/", you should change it to ".", or possibly vice versa. Some servers require a setting of "/", which points to the absolute path of the root folder on the server; others require relative paths, such as ".", which points to the FTP root. This issue is discussed in Blogger Help Group: Publishing Trouble Bizarre Blogger Publishing Problem, help!!, and in my article Path Variances When Publishing By FTP.
We've noted in some discussions that, after you change the path to ".", for instance, the Blogger script may change the setting to "./", or even "/". But your initially changing it to "." appears to be a key step, nonetheless. Save the setting, Republish, and test.
Besides the Publishing FTP Path, which indicates where the main blog is stored, there are additional settings, of equal importance. Blogger Help: What is the FTP path? discusses this, and more, in greater detail.
You may also find Microsoft Error message in IIS: "530 User
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Comments
Nonetheless, when I republished the problem was fixed!
Thanks!
This was precisely my problem. I'm not sure how long the badaid will last, but at least for now I have a workaround!
Thanks again.
Note: I entered "." and Blogger changed it to "./" buit it worked.
Thank you thank you thank you.
And of course - MERRY CHRISTMAS!
I just discovered this worked for me after several hours trial and error. Also note for some reason Blogger reports errors after I click upload, but when I checked this on my website (using dreamweaver) the files had been uploaded.