Failed FTP Logins 1855294

Some users are reporting failed logins when publishing via FTP. We are investigating.

Update: After considerable debugging, we believe this is isolated to no more than a few dozen accounts. We have discovered several web hosts who appear to be throttling login attempts from unknown IP addresses; please verify with your web host that Blogger's IP addresses are whitelisted. If you continue to see problems, please report them in the Help Forum and we will research the issue further.

Some users are having trouble publishing posts on their FTP-hosted blogs. We're looking into this now and will post an update once we have more info.

Thanks for your patience.

Update: As of 3pm PST, we have identified the root cause and expect a fix to be implemented within 2 hours.

Update #2: This has been fixed. We apologize again for the interruption in service.

Update #3: As of Saturday morning, some users are reporting ongoing FTP-related issues. We are aware of these reports and are actively trying to isolate and correct them. We will post an update as soon as we have more information.

FTP publishing is currently unreliable and may prevent some users from posting to their FTP-hosted blogs.

We're looking into this now and will post an update once we have more info. Thanks for your patience.

Update: This has been fixed.

Some users who use Blogger to ftp their blogs to a remote host reported issues with their RSS/Atom feeds. We have identified the cause of the problem and are working on a fix.

Update: This has been fixed.

Some users are experiencing problems with FTP publishing that may affect image upload and posting. While we are working on the fix, one quick recommendation would be to clear your browser's cache and cookies and then try to re-publish.

Some FTP users with a blogspot.com URL that redirects to their FTP blog URL will see a "Page not found" message when using IE and visiting the blogspot.com URL associated with their FTP blog.

ArchiveTemplateNotSupported

The “Archive Template” feature, once available to long-time users of old Blogger, is not supported in new Blogger.

FTPLogin530Error

Some users receive the following error message, when trying to publish via FTP "reason: 530 Login authentication failed". This error is specific to certain hosting providers (startlogic for example). The reason for this error that certain hosting providers are denying FTP logins from the Blogger server. The Blogger team is working on fixing this problem.

PerLabelFeedsFTP500Error

Per-label feeds for FTP blogs give a 500 error when the label contains spaces.

FTPURLSettingInBeta

For FTP blogs, leaving the archive URL setting blank behaves differently than it did in the old version of Blogger, which causes some archive links to be incorrect. If your archive path is different than your main publishing path, you'll want to be sure to fill in the archive URL as well, rather than relying on the default. Enter just the URL of your archive directory, without a filename.

FTP blogs currently publish post pages even if the post page setting is set to "no." Until we fix this, feel free to delete these files from your server if you don't want them. (They'll be in /year/month/ folders in the same directory as your main blog page.)

FTP blogs are not publishing their site feeds in RSS format. Until this is fixed, either use the atom.xml feed instead (most feed readers that accept RSS accept Atom as well) or use: http://www.blogger.com/feeds/blogid/posts/default?alt=rss to get your blog’s feed in RSS format. Update, 11/21: This has been fixed. FTP blogs now publish an rss.xml file.

FTPNoLayoutsFeature

The new drag-and-drop template feature, Layouts, is not available for blogs published via FTP. Update, 12/18: Because Layouts relies heavily on new Blogger’s dynamic serving of pages, this is unlikely to be supported soon if ever.