ProFTPd access to /var/www

[James Bond]

On 10/18/2011 04:33 PM, Oliver Marshall wrote:
>
> Hi chaps,
>
> Has anyone got FTP working so that an external party can FTP to /var/www ?
>
> I've been trying for ages. I'm easily on my 50^th link from google 
> searches and I've tried ProFTPd and some others but just cant get it 
> working.
>
> 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.
>
> 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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