Having trouble feeding in an FTP Server

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I am having trouble feeding in an FTP server to the backend of a Wix site.

Someone on the Corvid team provided me this article to reference ( https://support.wix.com/en/article/corvid-web-modules-calling-server-side-code-from-the-front-end ) and said that it can be done by,

Implementing a backend module to connect to an FTP server and expose an API to the front end, that way the API reads the content of a file and expose this to the front end.

That being said, the article provided does not explain how to effectively get this running, rather it just states when to use it and provides the function to use it with. It says to use the fetch API, but after looking into this API, I’ve found that it only supports HTTP/HTTPS.

I would appreciate any assistance on this as it would be a tremendous door-opener for us as well as Wix. Thanks.

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You won’t be able to do it straight through Wix, you will need to use code as you have been told.
https://support.wix.com/en/article/request-ftp-service

Depending on what you are using, you can look at getting the IP address for your hosting from your cPanel and then use the IP as the host address for your ftp client and you might be able to get it to work for you.

Also, you should do what the Forum Guidelines suggest and search for previous forum posts as this has been asked before.
https://www.wix.com/corvid/forum/community-discussion/what-is-wix-port-number-for-filezilla
https://www.wix.com/corvid/forum/community-discussion/how-do-i-transfer-html-files-and-graphics