Maven FTP Deployment: Unable to create directory - maven

Question

For the past couple of hours, I have been unable to solve this issue. Note that I have tried looking for solutions with no avail.
Anyway, my issue is that I am unable to create a directory with the Maven Wagon plugin. Here is an snip of the error for reference.
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-deploy-plugin:2.7:deploy (default-deploy) on project spigotsite:
Failed to deploy artifacts: Could not transfer artifact be.maximvdw:spigotsite:jar:0.0.12-20160523.053812-1 from/to public (ftp://***.***.***.***): Unable to create directory be -> [Help 1]
Snip of pom.xml
<distributionManagement>
<repository>
<uniqueVersion>false</uniqueVersion>
<id>public</id>
<name>Repository</name>
<url>ftp://***.***.***.***</url>
</repository>
</distributionManagement>
Snip of settings.xml
<servers>
<server>
<id>public</id>
<username>***</username>
<password>***</password>
</server>
</servers>
I have verified that I am able to log onto the FTP and create a directory. I gave the FTP user full write permission to the folder as well as tested writing to the folder itself. I seem to be overlooking something and I appreciate if anyone could point out my mistake. Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

It worked for me:
POM.xml
<build>
...
<extensions>
<!-- Enabling the use of FTP -->
<extension>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.wagon</groupId>
<artifactId>wagon-ftp</artifactId>
<version>3.0.0</version>
</extension>
</extensions>
</build>
<distributionManagement>
<repository>
<id>ftp-repository</id>
<url>ftp://...myhost.../srv/ftp/</url> <!-- repository location -->
</repository>
</distributionManagement>
SETTINGS.xml
<servers>
<server>
<id>ftp-repository</id>
<username>myusername</username>
<password>mypassword</password>
<configuration>
<endpointChecking>false</endpointChecking>
</configuration>
</server>
...
</servers>