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Configuring an FTP server on Windows Server 2019 consists of several stages. Firstyou need to install the server itselfthen create and isolate usersconfigure a firewalland establish an FTP connection. This guide will explain all the steps in detail. Firstlet's quickly remember what an FTP server is. It is only the first part of the infrastructure that allows data to be transferred between hosts. The second part is the client. A connection is established between them that uses the File Transfer Protocol. Did you know? Hostman got you covered with servers with big amounts of storage for every project! Check our VPS Storage and start deploying now! This connection's primary benefit is its cross-platform compatibility. Neverthelessthere are a number of drawbacksincluding slow file sharing and security problems. The protocol is still frequently used in spite of all of that. This is how FTP client works on Windows Install FTP server To continue with this guideyou need a host with Windows Server 2019 installed and configured.  To install an FTP server: Open the Start menu and launch Server Manager. You will configure the basic settings through this utility. Click Add roles and features. The Add Roles and Features Wizard will launch. Click Next. Select the Role-based or feature-based installation option and click Next. In the next windowselect the default server; this is the server where roles should be installed. Check the role Web Server (IIS). In the next windowclick Add features. Skip the next two steps by clicking Next; nothing needs to be changed. In Role Services select FTP Service and IIS Management Console.  Check the list of components ready for installation and click Install. After installation is completeclose the wizard window. Firewall setup To configure a firewall that protects an FTP server on Windowsgo to the Tools menu in the Server Manager top right and run Windows Defender Firewall with Advanced Security.  In the left menugo to Inbound rules. In the right menuselect New rule. In the rule settingsselect the Predefined type and the FTP server value. Select all the optionsclick Nextand then Finish. To apply the new configurationreboot the server. User management One of the protocol's main problems is its low level of security. Thereforeyou need to be very strict about the list of users who can connect to the server. For this purposegroups or individual users are configured. Go to the Tools menu in the Server Manager and select Computer Management. Go to Local Users and Groups. Right-click the context menu of the Users item and proceed to create a new account. Enter your username and password. Select your account settings. For exampleyou can enable a requirement to change your password the first time you connect. Or vice versaprohibit changing passwords. For the system to accept a passwordit must meet at least three of the four following security requirements: Have lowercase Latin letters. Have uppercase Latin letters. Have numbers. Have special characters like !$#%. Adding a site We must add an FTP site in order to continue working. Once users have been createdwe go back to the Server Manager. This is where all Windows FTP server setup will happen. Go to the Tools and launch the Internet Information Services Manager tool. In the Connections sectiondouble-click the sever and select Add FTP Site. Enter the site name and select the folder with its content. Specify the IP address to connect or set the mode to All Unassigned. Configure SSL settings. You can choose not to use encryption or enable it and add your own certificate. Click Next. Select Basic authentication. Grant authorization permission to Specified Users. Enter the name of the created account. Grant the read and write permissions. Click Finish. Directory Isolation In one of the previous stepswe showed how to create users which can connect to the server. Howevermore is needed to provide even minimal security. Another critical point is isolation. For examplewe are configuring a server for a television network. Departments within the company must share videos: camera operators submit the footageeditors modify itand correspondents view it. Isolation allows you to ensure that each type of user has access only to specific directories. We have an FTP site. Let's go to the settings and restrict availability zones between different accounts. Go to the Tools and launch the Internet Information Services Manager tool. Right-click on your FTP site and select FTP User Isolation. Select User name directory and click Apply. Right-click on the FTP site and add a virtual directory. Enter your login andin the line belowthe full path to the folder this account can use.The directory should already exist. We recommend using the login in the directory name to make it easier to figure out who can go where. We have one virtual directory. Let's change access permissions. Right-click on our new virtual directory and go to editing permissions. Open the Security tab and click Advanced. Disable inheritance and save changes. Return to the Security options. Click Edit under the list of groups/users. Remove the Users group and add a new user. Enter the FTP user name and run name checking. Click OK to save your changes. Select the new usercheck all the permission checkboxes in the Allow columnand click Apply. The configuration of the FTP server for Windows is complete. Connection via FTP We figured out how to create an FTP server on Windows Server 2019 and set up user accounts. Finallylet's see how to connect to our file storage. A client is required to establish a connection. One of the most popular is FileZilla. You can also use WinSCP. To connectyou will need: The server IP address. Name and password for the created account. After establishing the connectionthe user will see the directory you specified in the site settings. If you have configured directory isolationthe user will go to the virtual directory and cannot move to other people's folders. Installed FTP Server on Windows Server 2019 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) How do I allow FTP through Windows Firewall on Server 2019?  You need to create an Inbound Rule in the firewall settings: Open Windows Defender Firewall with Advanced Security. Select Inbound Rules > New Rule. Choose Predefined and select FTP Server from the list. Ensure the checkboxes for all profiles (DomainPrivatePublic) are selected and click Next > Allow the connection. Note: If you use Passive Mode (which is recommended)you must also manually open the specific port range (e.g.50000-51000) you defined in IIS. Does Windows have a built-in FTP client?  YesWindows has two built-in options: Command Line: Open Command Prompt (cmd) and type ftp. It is a basic text-based client. File Explorer: You can type an FTP address (e.g.ftp://192.168.1.10) directly into the address bar of any folder window. It works just like browsing a regular folder. How to check if FTP is enabled in Windows?  To verify the server is running: Open IIS Manager (Internet Information Services). Expand your server node and look at the Sites list. Locate your FTP site; if the status says Startedthe service is enabled. Alternativelycheck the Microsoft FTP Service in the generic Services panel (services.msc). How to check if the firewall is blocking FTP?  The quickest test is using the Telnet client (if installed) or PowerShell from a different computer: Test-NetConnection -ComputerName [ServerIP] -Port 21 If it returns TcpTestSucceeded: Falsethe firewall (either on the server or the network edge) is likely blocking the connection. Why does my FTP connection hang after the login?  This is almost always a Passive Mode issue. In Passive modethe server tells the client to connect to a high-numbered port for data transfer. If you haven't opened that specific range of data ports in your firewallthe login works (port 21)but the directory listing fails.

Batch files are text files with .BAT or .CMD extensions that store a set of commands and execute them in the operating system terminal. Such files are necessary to automate standard user work in Windows.  Batch files can be thought of as a Windows alternative for the Unix shell scripts that are used on Linux servers. The creationconfigurationand execution of bat files in Windowsalong with the commands to usewill be thoroughly covered in this article. Example of Linux .bat file creation Prerequisites An affordable cloud server from Hostman or a personal computer with the Windows operating system installed. Notepad or another text editor. We recommend using editors with built-in syntax highlightingfor exampleNotepad++. Create a batch file To create a Windows bat fileopen any text editor and fill it with some content.  As an examplelet's create a batch file that will display the message "Hellouser!" in the Command Prompt window: @echo offecho Hellouser!pause Nowyou need to save the file using the .bat extension. To do thisgo to File → Save as…. If you are using Notepad++select Batch file in the Save as type field and enter the file name. "Save as" window for starting When using Notepadselect All files as the file type and enter your file name and extension. Choosing type is very important step to move further If you saved the file with the wrong extensionit can be easily fixed by renaming the file and specifying the correct extension.  To do thisyou need to enable showing file extensions in the Explorer's View tab. To see if everything's okjust see extension of the file Syntax of a batch file Below is a list of basic rules that you need to know when using Windows bat scripting: Each command must be entered on a new line. The commands specified in the file are executed strictly in orderfrom first to last. The exception is those cases when a transition from one part to another is organized inside the file (for examplegoto). Indicate directories in quotes to minimize errors. Add |Y| before commands that require confirmation (such as del or format). You can use two types of commands: internal (built-in) and external. The first are the commands of the Command Prompt (cmd.exe) itself (we'll talk about them later). The second type includes all possible executable files (extensions .EXE.CMD or .BAT). Use @echo off at the beginning of the file to disable displaying the command line after running the batch file. Run a batch file To run a bat file in Windowssimply double-click on it. It is worth considering that some batch files may contain commands that require administrator rights. In that caseright-click on the file and select Run as administrator.  Howeverif running the file implies some kind of system outputyou should run it using the Command Prompt. To launch the Command Promptpress WIN+Renter cmd in the input fieldand press Enter. A command line window will openinto which you need to drag-and-drop the batch file and press Enter. The batch file will begin executing commands and display the result. Let's run the test file that we created in the previous step and look at the result. If everything works correctlyyou will see the message from the file: "Hellouser!". Our .bat file is created Automate .BAT files with Task Scheduler  A useful feature when working with batch files is the ability to run them at certain intervals. To implement thisyou will need to use Task Schedulera built-in Windows tool. Press WIN+Renter taskschd.msc in the input field and press Enter. Select Create Basic Task... in the Actions menu on the right.  After thisthe Create Basic Task Wizard window will openwhere you need to fill out four tabs: Create a Basic Task. Enter the name and description of the task and click Next. Trigger. Specify how often the batch file should be run and at what time. Action. Select Start a programclick Next and specify the path to the batch file. Finish. Check all entered data and click Finish. It's important to check .bat files from time to time The batch file is now added to the Windows schedule and will be run automatically according to your settings. Add comments to batch files When necessaryyou can also add comments to .BAT files in Windows. There are three ways to leave comments while writing a batch file: rem. Enter the comment immediately after it: rem your_comment_here Double colon. Works similar to the rem command. :: your_comment_here goto. This one is used not only for commentingbut also for moving to another part of the batch file. After entering the commandindicate a label (in the example below it is start). goto startyour_comment_here:start Each comment must have its own unique tag. Basic commands for .BAT files Below are the main commands used when writing a batch file. Command Argument Description cd Catalogue Going to the specified directory (empty argument returns the current directory). pause - Pausing a batch file. start File path/command Executing the specified program or command in a separate window. md Catalogue Creating a directory. copy Path to source files and destination directory Copying one or more files to a specified directory. del File or directory name Deleting one or more files. call Path to the file to run Running a batch file from another batch file. title Title Changing the window title. move Source and destination path to file/files Moving one file or group of files from one directory to another. color Background and text color (set by number or letter) Changing the background and text color  exit - Terminating the batch file. This is not a complete list. To check all the commandswrite help in the Command Prompt. An example of "Help" command Variables You can also use variables when writing a batch file. To add a variableuse the set command. Firstenter setthen the variable namethen its value. If you need to access a variable and read its valueadd the % symbol on both sides of the variable name. For example:  @echo offset example=Hellouser!echo %example%pause Please note that there are no spaces before or after the equal signotherwise the program will not work.  When you run the batch file with this contentthe system will output "Hellouser!". Alsowhen declaring a variableyou can use the /a flagwhich allows to assign a number to the variable. For example: @echo offset /a example=2*3echo %example%pause Without the flagthe entire string after the equal sign is assigned to the variable. When runthe program will output the number 6. In addition to regular variablesthere are argument variables. These variables are assigned values that are passed when the batch file is exported. They look like this: %1%2%3etc. Here's an example: @echo off@echo First argument variables - : %1@echo Second argument variables - : %2@echo Third argument variables - : %3pause When running this batch filewe will pass the string "Hellouser!" The result will be shown in the picture below. Batch file example: removing unnecessary files While workingwe often end up with unnecessary files that need to be cleaned. A correctly written batch file does an excellent job of this. Suppose you have a lot of .TXT files in a certain directory and its subdirectories that you no longer need. Let's create a simple batch file for this case: @echo offdel /f /s /q C:\path_to_directory\Example\*.txt Let's look at how each flag works: /f allows you to delete all files (even the read-only ones). /s allows you to delete files not only from the directory but also its subdirectories. /q removes confirmation of file deletion. Nowto test this batch filelet's create the Example directory and the ExampleWithTXT subdirectoryand then add three .TXT files to both: mkdir Example cd Example mkdir ExampleWithTXT notepad Example1.txt notepad Example2.txt notepad Example3.txt cd ExampleWithTXT copy C:\path_to_directory\Example\*.txt Nowdrag-and-drop the batch file to the Command Propmpt window and look at the result. The output must show that all six files were successfully removed from the Example directory and the ExampleWithTXT subdirectory. A message about deleted files Conclusion In this guidewe described in detail how to create and use .BAT files in Windows and provided basic commands for working with them. Following this tutorialyou can create your first Windows bat script to automate working with the Windows OS. You can also use our S3 compatible storage to save all the .BAT files you need. If you want to know morewe prepared for you some instructions on how to create cloud server. When you understood how to create .bat files on Linux Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) How do I create a batch file?  Open a plain text editor like Notepad. Type your commands (e.g.echo Hello World)then go to File > Save As. Change "Save as type" to All Files and name your file with a .bat extensionsuch as script.bat. How do I run a batch file?  You can simply double-click the .bat file to run it. Alternativelyto see the output more clearly or troubleshoot errorsopen the Command Prompt (cmd)navigate to the folderand type the file name (e.g.script.bat). How do I stop the batch window from closing immediately?  If your script finishes too quickly to read the outputadd the pause command at the end of your script. This forces the window to stay open until you press a key. How do I run a batch file as Administrator?  Right-click the batch file and select Run as administrator. This is necessary if your script modifies system settingsinstalls programsor changes files in protected folders like C:\Windows. How do I add comments to my code?  Use the REM command or double colons :: at the start of a line. REM This is a comment :: This is also a comment The system ignores these lines during execution. What is the difference between .bat and .cmd extensions?  For most usersthey are interchangeable. .bat is the legacy extension from the MS-DOS erawhile .cmd was introduced for Windows NT. Both run on modern Windows systemsbut .bat is far more common for compatibility

pip is a utility that turns Python package installation and management into a straightforward task. From Python beginners to coding wizardshaving this utility on your Windows computer is a true game-changer. It effortlessly facilitates the setup of crucial frameworks and libraries for your development needs. Automating package management with pip frees up your time and reduces the complications linked to manual installations. Follow this guide to become proficient in configuring pip and overseeing your Python packages seamlessly. pip Setup Process for Windows Here are the guidelines to set up pip on a Windows machine. Step 1: Confirm Installation Verify Python is operational on your device before starting the pip setup. To carry out this operationrun command prompt and apply: python --version   If Python's not present on your systemdownload it from the official site. Step 2: Download get-pip.py Python's standard installation package automatically includes pip. Howeverin case of accidental removalgrab the get-pip.py script.  You have a couple of options: either visit the pip.py webpageor use the curl command for a quick install: curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py Note: Installing Python again to get pip is also an option. Howeverit can sometimes lead to conflicts with other dependencies or settings. Your existing Python setup stays unchanged with this script. Step 3: Run get-pip.py Move to the script’s location through the command prompt and apply: python get-pip.py This will smoothly install pip on your device. Step 4: Confirm pip Installation Validate the installation by executing: pip --version Applying this command ensures pip is installed on the system. Step 5: Add pip to System PATH If the command doesn't execute properlyupdate your system PATH with these instructions to incorporate pip: Access Properties by right-clicking on My Computer or This PC from the drop-down menu. Opt for Advanced system settings. Select Environment Variables. Head over to System Variablesspot the Path variableand choose Edit. Insert the Python Scripts directory into your system PATHfor exampleC:\Python39\Scripts. Alternative Ways for pip Installation on Windows Let's discuss a few other ways to effortlessly get pip running on Windows. Via Built-in ensurepip Module From Python 3.4 onwardthere's an awesome built-in module named ensurepip. With this toolpip installation is simplifiedeliminating the need for the get-pip.py script. Step 1: Run ensurepip Input the command below to set up pip: python -m ensurepip --default-pip Step 2: Verify pip Installation Check pip version through: pip --version Python Installer Approach for pip Installation Ensure the pip checkbox is marked during the Python setup. Here's how: Step 1: Download Installer Fire up your favorite browsergo to the official Python websiteand acquire the most recent installation file. Step 2: Launch the Installer Launch the installer you've downloaded and remember to pick the Add Python to PATH option while setting up. Step 3: Install pip While progressing through the setupdon't forget to enable the Install pip option. Step 4: Validate pip is Installed When the setup wraps upcheck pip installation via: pip --version Adjusting pip Version: Upgrade or Downgrade pip can be adjusted to suit your requirements by upgrading or downgrading. Here's how: Upgrading pip To give pip a fresh upgradeexecute: python -m pip install --upgrade pip Downgrading pip To roll back pipapply: python -m pip install pip==<version> Enter the desired version number to install instead of <version> (e.g.21.0). Resolving pip Installation Issues: Essential Commands Let's discover common pip installation issues and their fixes: Issue 1: "pip" is not recognized as an internal or external command Solution: This implies the pip path isn't set in your system PATH. Simply follow the instructions in "Step 5" to fix this. Issue 2: Permission Denied Solution: Elevate your command prompt privileges by right-clicking the Command Prompt icon and choosing Run as administrator. Afterwardrerun the commands. Issue 3: Missing Dependencies Solution: Sometimesyou'll run into trouble because of missing dependencies. To correct thismanually install the essential dependencies with pip. For example: pip install package_name Swap out package_name for the appropriate dependency. Utilizing Virtual Environments Employing virtual environments keeps dependencies distinct and avoids any conflicts. Here's how to utilize a virtual environment with pip: Creating a Virtual Environment python -m venv env_name Replace env_name with your desired environment name. Initiating Your Virtual Environment env_name\Scripts\activate Standard pip Commands To explore pip's usagecheck these essential commands: Installing a Package pip install package_name Modify package_name to accurately reflect the package you're aiming to install. Uninstalling a Package pip uninstall package_name Showing Installed Packages pip list Showing Package Information pip show package_name Optimal Strategies for Package Management Employ virtual environments to handle dependencies efficiently in multiple projects. Regularly inspect and upgrade your packages to keep everything running smoothly. Prepare requirements files to ease the management of dependencies in your projects. Securing pip Installation Ensuring the protection of packages handled by pip is critical. Here are some tips to keep your environment secure: Maintain project isolation to avoid conflicts and secure installations. Check the trustworthiness and verification of package sources before installing. Always refer to official repositories and examine reviews if they are available. Consistently update pip and your packages to stay protected with the latest security patches and improvements. Periodically review your dependencies for known vulnerabilities. Tools such as pip-audit can assist in identifying and resolving security concerns. Adhere to secure coding standards and steer clear of deprecated or insecure packages. Integrating pip with IDEs pip can be effortlessly embedded into various Integrated Development Environments (IDEs)significantly boosting your development efficiency: VS Code: Utilize the built-in terminal for direct pip command and package management within the editor. PyCharm: Streamline package management by setting up pip configurations via the project interpreter. This simplifies the process of installing and managing packages customized to your project's specific needs. Jupyter Notebook: Employ magic commands in the notebook interface for direct package installation. This provides a smooth and integrated experience for managing dependencies while you work on your interactive notebooks.  Conclusion Windows offers several methods to set up pipcatering to different preferences and requirements. No matter if you select the .py scriptuse Python's built-in ensurepip moduleor enable pip during the initial setupthese approaches will make sure pip is properly configured on your system. This all-in-one guide empowers you to handle and install Python packages with ease. Don't forgetkeeping pip updated is essential for ensuring the security and efficiency of your Python setup. Routinely check for updates and keep pip upgraded. In additionon our application platform you can find Python appssuch as CeleryDjangoFastAPI and Flask.