Bitbucket pipeline fails (ftp) - Error: server response timeout

[Pascal Bieri]

My pipeline is not working with the following error:

* Connected to sftp.domain.com (157.90.40.40) port 5544 (#0)
< SSH-2.0-sFTP Server ready.
* server response timeout
* Closing connection 0
curl: (28) server response timeout

Between the "Server ready" and the timeout message there are more messages that create something like a wave. My pipeline yaml:

image: php:7.4

    pipelines:
     branches:
       master:
         - step:
             name: Deploy to production
             deployment: production
             script:
               - apt-get update
               - apt-get -qq install git-ftp
               - git ftp init -vv --user $LiveFTPUsername --passwd $LiveFTPPassword ftp://sftp.domain.com:5544

I also tried with different ports and with ftp but i get errors all the time. Do you have an idea what the problem could be?

[Syahrul]

Hey @Pascal Bieri 

Welcome to the community!

The error message you share seems to be a generic error message that happens when a connection unable to establish between client and server. 

In this case, the pipeline received a timeout from your FTP server. So I wonder if your FTP server is accessible externally. I would suggest you verify

• If your server is accessible externally from your end or another machine with the port given
• Does your server behind a firewall? If yes, have you whitelist our IP from the list Bitbucket IPs list for pipeline 

That said, I believe you'll have to configure your git FTP before running the init as per the documentation here 

# Setup
git config git-ftp.url "ftp://ftp.example.net:21/public_html"
git config git-ftp.user "ftp-user"
git config git-ftp.password "secr3t"

# Upload all files
git ftp init

Do try to set up the config first before FTP init the repository. Let me know how it goes.

Cheers,
Syahrul

[Pascal Bieri]

Thx @Syahrul

Im just checking with the hosting provider. It just happens on a specific one, might be a problem with the firewall.