I've set up an ASP.NET 2.0 web app in VS 2008 (it's 2.0 as it contains some legacy code) and I'm now trying to deploy it to my new VPS.
I've created the domain in Plesk and set up the FTP account. I can FTP the server using the command line and all works well, however, if I try to use the "copy website" option in VS 2008 I get "The ~/ directory does not exist." in the remote location box.
It is connected because if I try to reconnect it asks if I want to break the current connection but it cannot seem to get a directory listing.
I have also tried using FileZilla but this can't get a directory listing either.
Oddly enough, I can actually upload a file to root directory but thats no good for my subdirectories.
I really want to use the copy website option from VS but I've tried everything I can think of.
EDIT
In the end I gave up on this and installed Frontpage Server Extensions on the webserver instead and it worked like a dream. If anyone else has this problem my advice would be to download the extensions from MSDN and use those instead.
If FTP is your only option then I'm really not sure how to tackle it other than a guy on another site suggested it may be something to do with permissions but try as I might I couldn't get it to work.