Upload file via FTP from Excel VBA

Question

Need to upload a file (file.txt) to a server (ftp.server.com) from Excel VBA. (does not have to be necessarily FTP, just need to be able to put the file there and get it bac

Answer 1

After lot of research I found a method to upload file to FTP location without any .ocx file internet control file. This worked for me....

 Declare PtrSafe Function InternetConnect Lib "wininet.dll" Alias "InternetConnectA" ( _
        ByVal hInternetSession As Long, ByVal sServerName As String, _
        ByVal nServerPort As Integer, ByVal sUserName As String, _
        ByVal sPassword As String, ByVal lService As Long, _
        ByVal lFlags As Long, ByVal lContext As Long) As Long
    Declare PtrSafe Function InternetOpen Lib "wininet.dll" Alias "InternetOpenA" ( _
        ByVal sAgent As String, ByVal lAccessType As Long, _
        ByVal sProxyName As String, _
        ByVal sProxyBypass As String, ByVal lFlags As Long) As Long
    Declare PtrSafe Function FtpSetCurrentDirectory Lib "wininet.dll" Alias _
     "FtpSetCurrentDirectoryA" (ByVal hFtpSession As Long, _
        ByVal lpszDirectory As String) As Boolean
    Declare PtrSafe Function FtpPutFile Lib "wininet.dll" Alias "FtpPutFileA" ( _
        ByVal hConnect As Long, _
        ByVal lpszLocalFile As String, _
        ByVal lpszNewRemoteFile As String, _
        ByVal dwFlags As Long, _
        ByRef dwContext As Long) As Boolean

Sub simpleFtpFileUpload()

    Dim ftp, FTP_PORT, user, password, loc_file, remote_file, ftp_folder As Variant
    ftp_folder = "/EXPORT"
    loc_file = ThisWorkbook.Path & "\readme.txt"
    remote_file = ftp_folder & "/readme.txt"
    FTP_PORT = "2221"
    user = "ajay"
    password = "ajay"
    ftp = "192.168.1.110"

    Internet_OK = InternetOpen("", 1, "", "", 0)
    If Internet_OK Then
        FTP_OK = InternetConnect(Internet_OK, ftp, FTP_PORT, user, password, 1, 0, 0) ' INTERNET_DEFAULT_FTP_PORT or port no
        If FtpSetCurrentDirectory(FTP_OK, "/") Then
            Success = FtpPutFile(FTP_OK, loc_file, remote_file, FTP_TRANSFER_TYPE_BINARY, 0)
        End If
    End If
    If Success Then
        Debug.Print "ftp success ;)"
        MsgBox "ftp success ;)"
    Else
        Debug.Print "ftp failure :("
        MsgBox "ftp failure :("
    End If
End Sub

Please change values as per your needs

    ftp_folder = "/EXPORT"
    loc_file = ThisWorkbook.Path & "\readme.txt"
    remote_file = ftp_folder & "/readme.txt"
    FTP_PORT = "2221"
    user = "ajay"
    password = "ajay"
    ftp = "192.168.1.110"