My FTP batch script is stuck on "200 PORT command successful" and doesn't upload the files to server

This looks like a typical problem with the FTP active mode. The server cannot connect back to your machine to establish a data transfer connection.

That typically happens as nowadays most client machines are behind a firewall or NAT or both, what prevents the FTP active mode from working. To make the active mode working you need to open your firewall (not recommended) and/or configure NAT routing rules.

See my article on FTP modes and configuring network for the active mode.

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Or you use the passive FTP mode. The Windows ftp.exe client does not support the passive mode though, what makes it pretty useless nowadays.

So you need to use another command-line FTP client. A majority of FTP clients do support the passive mode.

For example with WinSCP your runScript.bat would be like:

winscp.com /command ^
    "open ftp://username:[email protected]/" ^
    "cd /public_html/reports/" ^
    "lcd C:\automation\tests\HtmlReporter" ^
    "put *" ^
    "exit"

Note that WinSCP defaults to the passive mode.

For details see WinSCP guides for:

• Automating file transfers to FTP server
• Converting Windows FTP script to WinSCP script

(I'm the author of WinSCP)