Upload file to http server using power shell

sudiptasaha177 · 2018-04-09T12:16:01.000Z

I want to transfer a XML file to http server ( http://abcdef.com/somefolder/abcdef.xml ) . I wrote scripts for this and it’s running but actually it’s not uplaoding the files to http server .

My code

$sourceFilePath = “C:\Temp\NEWFOLDER\ABCDEF.XML”
$siteAddress = " http://abcdef.net/inetpub/temp/XML/" ;
$urlDest = “{0}/{1}” -f ($siteAddress, “ABCDEF.XML”);
$UserName = “XXXXX”
$Password = “XXXXX”

function uploadFile()
{

Param ([string] $sourceFilePath,
[string] $siteAddress ,
[string] $urlDest,
[string] $UserName,
[string] $Password)

$httprequest = [System.Net.HttpWebRequest]::create($sourceFilePath)
$httprequest.Credentials = New-Object System.Net.NetworkCredential($UserName,$Password)

(“*** Uploading {0} file to {1} ***” -f ($sourceFilePath, $siteAddress) ) | write-host -ForegroundColor Green
$webClient.UploadFile($urlDest, “PUT”, $sourceFilePath);

$httpresponse = $httprequest.GetResponse()

}

uploadFile $sourceFilePath $siteAddress $urlDest $UserName $Password

ERROR

Exception calling “UploadFile” with “3” argument(s): "The remote server returned an error: (503) Server Unavailable."At
C:\ABCDEF-documents\upload-file.ps1:40 char:13

$webClient.UploadFile($urlDest, “PUT”, $sourceFilePath);
CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: ( , MethodInvocationException
FullyQualifiedErrorId : WebException
Can anyone help me on this . Any clue will be helpful.

johnboyle · 2018-04-09T12:32:00.000Z

Looks perfect however verify that the location being written to has R/W Permissions. Since this also appears to be a live site the changes may not be showing until IIS (etc.) is restarted. Maybe add a call to the end of the script to restart the WebService once it is written. Or first stop IIS in the script, run copy, restart.

francishagyard2 · 2018-04-09T12:54:12.000Z

You’re invoking a web request to the local file (which will use the file:// protocol), shouldn’t it be to the server instead?

$httprequest = [System.Net.HttpWebRequest]::create($siteAddress)

You also haven’t declared $webClient anywhere, I’m presuming it should be like this from info elsewhere

$webClient = New-Object System.Net.WebClient

francishagyard2 · 2018-04-09T12:58:09.000Z

In fact I can see on this stack overflow link you left a comment on the answer an hour ago for the same problem, why not just copy their code and use the WebClient object instead of the HttpWebRequest one?

sudiptasaha177 · 2018-04-09T13:25:57.000Z

thanks for reply . I used $webClient = New-Object System.Net.WebClient but same error …

new code

$sourceFilePath = “C:\Temp\NEWFOLDER\ABCDEF.XML”

$siteAddress = " http://abcdef.net/inetpub/temp/XML/" ;

$urlDest = “{0}/{1}” -f ($siteAddress, “ABCDEF.XML”);

$UserName = “XXXXX”

$Password = “XXXXX”

function uploadFile() {

Param ([string] $sourceFilePath,

[string] $siteAddress ,

[string] $urlDest,

[string] $UserName,

[string] $Password)

$webClient = New-Object System.Net.WebClient;
$webClient.Credentials = New-Object System.Net.NetworkCredential($UserName,$Password);

(“*** Uploading {0} file to {1} ***” -f ($sourceFilePath, $siteAddress) ) | write-host -ForegroundColor Green

$webClient.UploadFile($urlDest, “PUT”, $sourceFilePath);

$httpresponse = $httprequest.GetResponse()

}

uploadFile $sourceFilePath $siteAddress $urlDest $UserName $Password

I’m facing same error

francishagyard2 · 2018-04-09T13:53:21.000Z

Ah your destination URL ($URLDest) has an extra forward slash in it, currently it looks like this: http://abcdef.net/inetpub/temp/XML//ABCDEF.XML

If you want to make it a function I would probably avoid using the same variable names too, see if this works at all:

$SourceFilePath = "C:\Temp\NEWFOLDER\ABCDEF.XML"
$SiteAddress = "http://abcdef.net/inetpub/temp/XML"
$URLDest = "{0}/{1}" -f ($SiteAddress, "ABCDEF.XML")
$MyUsername = "XXXXX"
$MyPassword = "XXXXX"

Function Upload-File { 
    Param (
        [string]$File, 
        [string]$URI, 
        [string]$Dest,
        [string]$Username,
        [string]$Password
    )
    $WebClient = New-Object System.Net.WebClient
    $WebClient.Credentials = New-Object System.Net.NetworkCredential($Username,$Password)
    ("*** Uploading {0} file to {1} ***" -f ($File, $URI)) | Write-Host -ForegroundColor Green
    $WebClient.UploadFile($Dest, "PUT", $File)
} 

Upload-File -File $SourceFilePath -URI $SiteAddress -Dest $URLDest -Username $MyUsername -Password $MyPassword

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sudiptasaha177 · 2018-04-09T14:24:40.000Z

thanks for reply again but I’m sorry to say it’s not working … I’m facing error in this line $WebClient.UploadFile($Dest, “PUT”, $File)

ERROR

Exception calling “UploadFile” with “3” argument(s): "The remote server returned an error: (503) Server Unavailable."At
C:\ABCDEF-documents\upload-file.ps1:30 char:5
+ $WebClient.UploadFile($Dest, “PUT”, $File)
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: ( [], MethodInvocationException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : WebException

psophos · 2018-04-09T14:55:20.000Z

“The remote server returned an error: (503) Server Unavailable.”

Is there necessarily a flaw in the code?
That error message indicates an error coming form the server side.