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Connect to the server with Windows FTP utility

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On Windows, you can easily use a GUI software like FileZilla to connect to your FTP server. In this article, we will show how to connect via the FTP utility from the Command Prompt/PowerShell.

In case of cPanel, you can use the same credentials for the main FTP account as for the cPanel account.

To connect to the FTP server with the ftp tool:

1. Open Command Prompt or Windows PowerShell

2. Type ftp <hostname> or ftp <IP>
hostname is the server’s domain, like server23.plothost.com or your domain name ftp.mysite.com

3. When asked, enter the username and the password for your account. The window will look like:

C:\Users\Paul>ftp ftp.domainname.com
Connected to ftp.domainname.com.
220---------- Welcome to Pure-FTPd [privsep] [TLS] ----------
220-You are user number 3 of 20 allowed.
220-Local time is now 09:45. Server port: 21.
220-This is a private system - No anonymous login
220-IPv6 connections are also welcome on this server.
220 You will be disconnected after 10 minutes of inactivity.
200 OK, UTF-8 enabled
User (ftp.domainname.com:(none)): domainname
331 User domainname OK. Password required
Password:
230 OK. Current restricted directory is /
ftp> quit
221-Goodbye. You uploaded 0 and downloaded 0 kbytes.
221 Logout.

Most used ftp commands are:
1. cd – to change the current directory

ftp> cd public_html
250 OK. Current directory is /public_html

2. dir – list the files and folders in the current directory

ftp> dir
200 PORT command successful
150 Connecting to port 51666
drwxr-xr-x    6 paul3      paul3            4096 Nov 26  2007 .
drwxr-x---   14 paul3      99               4096 Jan 26 16:53 ..
drwxr-xr-x    2 paul3      paul3            4096 Nov 26  2007 24
drwxr-xr-x    2 paul3      paul3            4096 Nov 26  2007 32
-rw-r--r--    1 paul3      paul3            1476 Jun 21  2007 plothost.gif
-rw-r--r--    1 paul3      paul3            6952 Jun 21  2007 cleansoft20.gif
-rw-r--r--    1 paul3      paul3            6946 Jun 21  2007 cleansoft3.gif
226-Options: -a -l
ftp: 1976 bytes received in 0.14Seconds 14.11Kbytes/sec.
ftp>

3. get – copy/download a file from the FTP server to your computer

ftp> get plothost.gif
200 PORT command successful
150 Connecting to port 51684
226-File successfully transferred
226 0.002 seconds (measured here), 0.61 Mbytes per second
ftp: 1487 bytes received in 0.00Seconds 1487.00Kbytes/sec.
ftp>

4. put – copy/upload a file from your computer to the FTP server

ftp> put plothostmp3.mp3
200 PORT command successful
150 Connecting to port 51691
226-File successfully transferred
226 1.547 seconds (measured here), 1.29 Mbytes per second
ftp: 2104051 bytes sent in 1.34Seconds 1572.53Kbytes/sec.
ftp>

To end an FTP connection use bye or quit.

Resources:
How to Use the FTP Utility

Download files from the command line in Windows

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Probably you will not need too often to download files from the command line/PowerShell, but in case you need, we will show here how you can archive this task.

In Linux, we have two commands to download files – wget and curl. Windows OS has the curl command. The curl command came to Windows in 2008.

To get the file content from the command line/PowerShell use curl URL

C:\Users\Web>curl plothost.com/kb
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>301 Moved Permanently</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Moved Permanently</h1>
<p>The document has moved <a href="http://plothost.com/kb/">here</a>.</p>
</body></html>

C:\Users\Web>

To save the file on the local disk use curl URL -o local_filename

C:\Users\Web>curl http://plothost.com/test_file -o test_file.test
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100 2054k  100 2054k    0     0   342k      0  0:00:06  0:00:06 --:--:--  420k

C:\Users\Web>

The -o option will output the content to a file instead of the terminal.

-o, –output Write to file instead of stdout

curl –help

To see all curl options, use curl –help.

If you are using Windows PowerShell, you can also use the Invoke-WebRequest command.

The Invoke-WebRequest cmdlet sends HTTP and HTTPS requests to a web page or web service. It parses the response and returns collections of links, images, and other significant HTML elements.

Invoke-WebRequest Doc

PS C:\Users\Web> Invoke-WebRequest http://plothost.com/test_file -o test_file.test
PS C:\Users\Web>

Related articles:
Download files in Linux

Resources:
Invoke-WebRequest

How to get Serial Number in Windows

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There a few ways to get the serial number of a computer:

1. In the case of laptops, you will usually find the serial number on a back-label.

2. You can see it in BIOS (basic input/output system)

3. You can get it from Windows OS.

How to get the Serial Number in Windows:

1. Right-click on the Start button and click on the Windows PowerShell entry (or Command Prompt if you are using an older version of Windows).

Right-click StartMenu

The Windows PowerShell window will open:

Windows PowerShell

2. Here you can use two commands. The first one will work both on Command Prompt and on PowerShell:

wmic bios get serialnumber

C:\Users\PH>wmic bios get serialnumber
SerialNumber
9E195841H


C:\Users\PH>

The second command will work only on PowerShell:

Get-WmiObject win32_bios | Format-List SerialNumber

PS C:\Users\PH> Get-WmiObject win32_bios | Format-List SerialNumber

SerialNumber : 9E195841H

PS C:\Users\PH>