FTP Error: 500 Illegal PORT Command

Filed in: Tips — June 26th, 2005

Solution for “500 Illegal PORT command” FTP error.

No sure why this happen, just now I connect to my FTP server but it return:

Response: 500 Illegal PORT command
Error: Could not retrieve directory listing

Connected but cannot list out the files.

I ask Google, and got answer in seconds – switch to passive mode.

For FileZilla user, click Edit -> Settings… -> Connections -> Firewall settings, tick “Passive Mode” checkbox.

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great….that made alot of sense
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great….that made alot of sense
grumpy user

Does no good – I’m already using Passive FTP setting and I still get that error
grumpy user

Does no good – I’m already using Passive FTP setting and I still get that error
Ren

thanks! it works for me.
Ren

thanks! it works for me.
Rajiv

Does no good – I’m already using Passive FTP setting and I still get that error
Rajiv

Does no good – I’m already using Passive FTP setting and I still get that error
cbkg11

It worked for me too, thanks a lot.
cbkg11

It worked for me too, thanks a lot.

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