Telnet connection refused.

[hmaddy]

telnet localhost 21
Trying ::1...
telnet: connect to address ::1: Connection refused
Trying 127.0.0.1...
telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused

 

[cPRex]

Hey hey! This could just mean that your FTP service is not running, as that is not enabled by default on newer cPanel installations. You can check the WHM >> FTP Server Selection page to see if that is enabled on the machine.

 

[hmaddy]

Hey hey! This could just mean that your FTP service is not running, as that is not enabled by default on newer cPanel installations. You can check the WHM >> FTP Server Selection page to see if that is enabled on the machine.

FTP is running. showing status is running in whm and terminal

 

[cPRex]

If the service is running, I'm not sure what else would block connections over localhost. Could you try disabling your firewall temporarily to see if that is somehow related? Is there a particular reason you are testing this with a localhost connection?

 

[hmaddy]

firewall disabled and checked. still same error while connecting FTP from filezilla.

Status: Connection attempt failed with "ECONNREFUSED - Connection refused by server".

 

[cPRex]

Can you telent from your workstation to the server on port 21?

 

[hmaddy]

pure-ftp reinstalled and solved the issue.

 

[cPRex]

Great - I'm glad that took care of things!