On 10/18/2011 04:33 PM, Oliver Marshall wrote:





Hi chaps,

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Has anyone got FTP working so that an
external party can FTP to /var/www ?

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I’ve been trying for ages. I’m easily on my
50th link from google searches and I’ve tried
ProFTPd and some others but just cant get it working.

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I’m currently running ProFTPd (using the
GADMIN GUI). I gave up trying to create a dedicated user for
this party and just used the logon details of the main account
on the server. In ProFTPd I’ve assigned them permissions for
the /var/www directory, but that doesn’t work. They just get a
permission denied when changing folders in their FTP client.



So I used chown and chgrp to give that account permission to
the /var/www directory but that hasn’t worked.

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SCP isn’t an option, though I haven’t had
much more joy with getting WinSCP working either, though I’m
told that’s a limitation on WinSCP rather than SCP as a whole.



Could someone spare 5 mins to give me some advice on how this
should be set up ?



Olly










sudo aptitude install vsftpd and then

netstat -tualp | grep 21

see if ftp is working on port 21



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