PHP ftp_delete can't find file

Question

When I try to use ftp_delete() I get the error: Warning: ftp_delete(): File not found. My ftp server should be working fine, I can upload files fine to the same directory without a problem. Here is the PHP:

$fileSource = 'http://localhost/user/images/dfdf.png';
$ftpCon = ftp_connect('localhost');
ftp_login($ftpCon,'---','---');
ftp_delete($ftpCon,$fileSource);

Also when I look at the server logs I can see I get the message: 550 File not found

The url for $fileSource is the file's exact path, I went into localhost and copy/pasted it into the code, still for some reason it can't be found.

Answer 1

The ftp_delete function acccepts a path to the file. You are providing http://localhost/user/images/dfdf.png which contains the host ( http://localhost/ ). I think you mean to provide /user/images/dfdf.png , which is just the path.

Example:

 ftp_delete($ftpCon, '/user/images/dfdf.png');

When, for example, your FTP root is /user/ , it will mean you need to provide ftp_delete with /images/dfdf.png . Thanks to @maremp.