Hello,

I am encountering an issue with the ftpPublisher plugin, where it fails to create directories on the FTP server. According to the inline help and the plugin's documentation, the following behaviour is expected:

Remote directory

If specified, the files will be transfered below this directory (which is relative to the Remote Directory specified in the Host Configuration for this server).
If the directory does not exist it will be created.

I have configured the FTP Server in the Publish over FTP section under Manage => System and named it Dev-Symbols. The connectivity test using the Test Configuration option was successful.

I verified with WinSCP that I can manually create a directory on the FTP server using the same user account Jenkins is configured to use.

Could someone please advise on what I might be doing wrong? How can I configure Jenkins to create directories on the FTP server automatically? Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

For context, my FTP server is running on IIS 8.5.

Below is the test pipeline I'm using:

def myPublishSymbols() {
    ftpPublisher(
        alwaysPublishFromMaster: true,
        continueOnError: false,
        failOnError: false,
        masterNodeName: '',
        paramPublish: null,
        publishers: [[
            configName: 'Dev-Symbols',
            transfers: [[
                asciiMode: false,
                cleanRemote: false,
                excludes: '',
                flatten: false,
                makeEmptyDirs: false,
                noDefaultExcludes: false,
                patternSeparator: '[, ]+',
                remoteDirectory: "'${env.P4_CHANGELIST}'",
                remoteDirectorySDF: true,
                removePrefix: "",
                sourceFiles: '*.pdb'
            ]],
            usePromotionTimestamp: false,
            useWorkspaceInPromotion: false, 
            verbose: true
        ]]
    )
}

pipeline {
    agent {
        node {
            label 'windows-agent'
{{        }}}
{{    }}}
    environment {
        ROOT = "${WORKSPACE}
workspace"
        P4_CHANGELIST = "clTEST"
{{    }}}
    stages {
        stage('Create content') {
            steps {
                bat "if not exist \"${ROOT}\\myProject\\Binaries\\Win64\" mkdir \"${ROOT}\\myProject\\Binaries\\Win64\""
                writeFile file: "${ROOT}\\myProject\\Binaries\\Win64
file.pdb", text: 'This is a test file from Jenkins.'
{{            }}}
{{        }}}
        stage('Upload to SymbolsServer') {
            steps {
                dir("${ROOT}/myProject/Binaries/Win64/") {
                    echo "Uploading files."
                    myPublishSymbols()
{{                }}}
{{            }}}
{{        }}}
{{    }}}
{{    // post { cleanup

}}}
}

Here's the relevant section of the build log:

[Pipeline] {
[Pipeline] echo
Uploading files.
[Pipeline] ftpPublisher
FTP: Connecting from host [ci]
FTP: Connecting with configuration [Dev-Symbols] ...
220 Microsoft FTP Service
FTP: Logging in, command printing disabled
FTP: Logged in, command printing enabled
CWD /DebugSymbols/myProject
250 CWD command successful.
TYPE I
200 Type set to I.
CWD /DebugSymbols/myProject
250 CWD command successful.
CWD clTEST
FTP: Disconnecting configuration [Dev-Symbols] ...
ERROR: Exception when publishing, exception message [Exception when changing to FTP directory [clTEST]]
{{[Pipeline] }}}

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Regards

Remik.