Creating a directory on remote FTP using powershell - powershell

Question

I"m able to put a file up to a remote FTP with a modified version of...
$File = "D:\Dev\somefilename.zip"
$ftp = "ftp://username:password#example.com/pub/incoming/somefilename.zip"
"ftp url: $ftp"
$webclient = New-Object System.Net.WebClient
$uri = New-Object System.Uri($ftp)
"Uploading $File..."
$webclient.UploadFile($uri, $File)
I'm running into the problem that I"m trying to upload a file to a directory that doesn't exist, the put fails. So I need to create the target directory first. GET-MEMBER doesn't seem to show any methods I can invoke to create a directory, only file operations.

Answer 1

I use function Create-FtpDirectory
function Create-FtpDirectory {
param(
[Parameter(Mandatory=$true)]
[string]
$sourceuri,
[Parameter(Mandatory=$true)]
[string]
$username,
[Parameter(Mandatory=$true)]
[string]
$password
)
if ($sourceUri -match '\\$|\\\w+$') { throw 'sourceuri should end with a file name' }
$ftprequest = [System.Net.FtpWebRequest]::Create($sourceuri);
$ftprequest.Method = [System.Net.WebRequestMethods+Ftp]::MakeDirectory
$ftprequest.UseBinary = $true
$ftprequest.Credentials = New-Object System.Net.NetworkCredential($username,$password)
$response = $ftprequest.GetResponse();
Write-Host Upload File Complete, status $response.StatusDescription
$response.Close();
}
Taken from Ftp.psm1 where you can find also other functions for FTP.
To others: sorry for not following well known verb-noun pattern. ;)