Saturday, July 19, 2025

Net::FTP is a FTP (File Transfer Protocol) programming module implemented in Perl. It allows the programmer to perform nearly any type of FTP function from a Perl script. This module is required by many scripts, including some here on the CGI Connection. If your hosting company does not have this module intalled, you should get it. This is not a standalone script, but is used in conjunction with other scripts.

This module can normally be downloaded from cpan.org but now it can be automatically installed from the CGI Connection web site.

Manual Installation:

• Login to your web site via telnet or ssh
• Change into your cgi-bin directory. Eg. cd cgi-bin
• untar net-ftp262.tar by using the command tar xvpf netdns0.34.tar
• You should now see a directory called Net under your cgi-bin directory

When you use a script that requires the Net::FTP module, it should work fine if you have the script in your cgi-bin folder. If not, you must specify the location of the FTP module in the beginning of the script. For example:

#!/usr/bin/perl
BEGIN { @INC = ("/path/to/your/cgi-bin", @INC); }

The only part you change is /path/to/your/cgi-bin which is the full, exact location to where you untarred the files to.

You can test if your modules exist by using our Module Checker

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