Problem Downloading .gz Via Ftp

[fpforum]

Hey everyone..I'm trying to download a file onto my server using FTP and PHP. The file I'm trying to download is a .GZ file and for some reason I keep getting the following error

first, my code

<?php
$conn_id = ftp_connect("hostname.com");
$login_result = ftp_login($conn_id, "username", "password");

if ((!$conn_id) || (!$login_result)) {
echo "FTP connection has failed!";
exit;
} else {
echo "Connected";
}

// get the file
$local = fopen("file.gz","w");
$result = ftp_fget($conn_id, $local,"home/username/public_html/folder/file.gz", FTP_BINARY);

// check upload status
if (!$result) {
echo "FTP download has failed!";
} else {
echo "Downloaded ";
}

// close the FTP stream
ftp_close($conn_id);
?>

next, the error

PHP Warning:  ftp_fget() [<a href='function.ftp-fget'>function.ftp-fget</a>]: Failed to open file. in /home/username/public_html/folder/file.php on line 14

Any idea what could be causing this? I see the file get created locally like it's trying to download - but it's always 0 bytes in size. I know some of you will say to just use the FTP link instead - but the server is locked to my IP so it must be downloaded locally..

Any help is appriciated!

 

[Tia Wood]

It sounds like either permissions or the path isn't correct.

Where are you running the script from?

 

[katherine]

Just a guess but:

$result = ftp_fget($conn_id, $local,"home/username/public_html/folder/file.gz", FTP_BINARY);

The / is missing before home So you are attempting to write to a non-existent directory.