# Uploading a file on remote server

**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/uploading-a-file-on-remote-server/62681
**Category:** General
**Created:** [16 May 2022 08:53 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/uploading-a-file-on-remote-server/62681 "2022-05-16T08:53:45Z")
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### Author: ![dynamicdave](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/dynamicdave/32/96_2.png) [@dynamicdave](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dynamicdave)
#### Post date: [17 May 2022 08:54 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/uploading-a-file-on-remote-server/62681/4 "2022-05-17T08:54:38Z")

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I've written a short guide on how to 'Upload a file to a remote server' for my IoT students.  
Here's the link to the post on the 'Share Your Projects' section of the forum.

> [@Using FTP(S) to transfer files to/from a remote FTP server](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/using-sftp-to-transfer-files-to-from-a-remote-ftp-server/62735):
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> Some of my IoT students have encountered problems trying to get some of the FTP (Node-RED) contrib nodes working. This may be due to the restrictions on the school network and/or the school's ISP. As an exercise I tried writing a couple of Python scripts to use the FTP\_TLS library to send and receive files between a Raspberry Pi and a remote FTP server. As shown below, the scripts are called from a Node-RED flow using an Exec node. [{"id":"678f819f147e416a"…

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