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this normally happens with filezilla. we had a post from 2010 about this here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

so this is an update, first check if you using the correct login info, then if still not working do:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Open Filezilla and open the settings (under the Edit menu)<\/li>\n
  2. Under “Connection” select “FTP”<\/li>\n
  3. The section at the top is called Transfer Mode. Within that, choose “Passive Mode”<\/li>\n
  4. Click OK. You should now be able to connect.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    this normally happens with filezilla. we had a post from 2010 about this here. so this is an update, first check if you using the correct login info, then if still not working do: Open Filezilla and open the settings (under the Edit menu) Under “Connection” select “FTP” The section at the top is called […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[47,46],"tags":[170],"class_list":["post-676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-filezilla","category-ftp-problems","tag-filezilla"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Yxzd-aU","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":178,"url":"https:\/\/hosting-marketers.com\/news\/2010\/10\/26\/blocked-by-the-server-firewall-while-uploading-files\/","url_meta":{"origin":676,"position":0},"title":"blocked by the server firewall while uploading files?","author":"Admin","date":"October 26, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"using filezilla to ftp with the default settings will cause the server firewall to assume you are a hacker and block you for 15 minutes. 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