Comments on: Settingup an FTP Server on Ubuntu with ProFTPD

By: narendra

narendra — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 06:46:09 +0000

Hi , I had installed the VFTO and made necessary changes in conf file. but when am trying to connect to ftp am getting error as fto connection refused.

Anyone can help me on this..

By: Matt098

Matt098 — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 19:40:41 +0000

@ edl
Hello,

If i recall you can create a new user say”wordpress” then set the home directory of the wordpress user to/www/var/wordpress then when you login to the ftp server use the wordpress user and password and it should log you into /www/var/wordpress.

Hope this helps
Best Regards and luck,
Matt

By: edl

edl — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 17:13:54 +0000

I have a similar problem. I want to be able to ftp /www/var/wordpress but I havn’t been able to find any information to help me do this. I am using proftpd also.

I’m fairly new to setting up wordpress on an ubuntu server using commands and I would really appreciate any help anyone could give me on this…I have managed to get this far but I feel I’ve hit a block wall!

Thanks!

By: Matt098

Matt098 — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 15:56:17 +0000

@ jrthor2
You would need to use your Wan IP, you can find out your wan IP by going to http://whatismyipaddress.com on your home network.

Connect to your FTP server like so:
- FTP://(wan ip here)
- Then enter your credentials

Simply use FileZilla (free download)
- Connect to your server and pretty much drag and drop

If i recall you can setup ProFTPD to allow specific users to login to specific folders. I think you can make a symbolic link from your default ftp folder to “/var/www/joomla16″.

I’m still kinda new to this as well, hope this helps

PS: i haven’t used proftpd for quite some time

By: jrthor2

jrthor2 — Tue, 31 May 2011 21:48:30 +0000

I have proftp setup, but if I want to ftp something from a website to my ftp server, what do I use for the FTP hostname?

Also, how can I allow the ftp to put files in /var/www/joomla16?

Thanks!

By: mknarr

mknarr — Sat, 07 May 2011 23:56:14 +0000

Just currious did you set the proper R/W previllages to the directory? You are trying to access. Also double check your config files.

By: pizaul

pizaul — Sat, 07 May 2011 17:06:48 +0000

Hi guys, thanks for this guide…I’ve a question I’m hoping you maybe able to shed some light on. I’m running a fedora build. I’ve installed and configured proftp, and use Webmin to manage it. Whenever I try to connect, the following happens:

This is the log from my client (fireftp):

200 Type set to A
PORT |2|fe80::fd3d:76a1:4385:8f40%12|52379|
220 Welcome to the cloud, ya’ll!
USER user
331 Password required for user
PASS (password not shown)
230 User user logged in
CWD /
250 CWD command successful
TYPE A
200 Type set to A
PORT |2|fe80::fd3d:76a1:4385:8f40%12|52381|

I then get kicked off and the whole process begins again. Any idea why?

By: thiyagi

thiyagi — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:32:58 +0000

thanks for the help guys…

By: MARTiN

MARTiN — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 15:50:57 +0000

Hi, I’m not so sure that you should just set the owner.group to www-data. Check what user proftpd is run as. Run “ps -aux | grep proftpd” and check at beginning of line first.

By: Matt098

Matt098 — Thu, 27 May 2010 03:11:41 +0000

@ Thisguybb,

Did you assign the proper file permissions to the main Ftp Folder (ex: r-read, w-write, x-execute) and or change the group to i think it is called “www-data” or “data-www”? To check what permissions are on what files/folders use the “ls -l” command
Here is an example sudo ls -l /var/www/ftp

drwxrw-rw-…………………ftp

you can use “chmod” to change the user permissions and “chown” to change the group.

O, also make sure there isnt a firewall blocking the port you are using to connect to the ftp server

Hope this helps, im still kinda a newb my self

By: Thisguybb

Thisguybb — Tue, 25 May 2010 15:55:44 +0000

Hi, I have installed proftpd many times on 9.10, using this guide to help me out. I just did a clean install with the 10.04 and now when I log in with a ftp client it gets to where it should list the files and then times out. Ive looked everywhere and cant seem to find out how to fix this. Thanks

By: new

new — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 09:26:04 +0000

Hi,please help me how could I access ftp ipv6 via firefox?and where default location when I start ftp server.pleasee help me I really confused.thank you very much

By: Matt098

Matt098 — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 02:41:35 +0000

@ jimfuture12345

When you type in your password it isn’t being displayed(it wont show you typing any information in) for security reasons. so just type in your password hit enter then you should be good to go

Regards Matt

By: jimfuture12345

jimfuture12345 — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 07:59:33 +0000

hi ,

ineed help please ,
i install proftpd with their accessories , but i can not save changes to proftpd directories in teminal my code:sudo vi /etc/proftpd.conf then teminal ask me for password , but keyboad not writing anything .

By: gb007

gb007 — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 06:48:47 +0000

I could not start the service - “ProFTPd warning: cannot start neither in standalone nor in inetd/xinetd mode. Check your configuration.”

This is on a fresh ubuntu server install. that was the first message i saw after installing proftpd. i chose not to check the configuration. removed it. and move along with other ftp service that worked. good bye proftpd! next time greet users with “up and running!”

By: Mahesh Ganapathy

Mahesh Ganapathy — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 17:01:22 +0000

Is the proFTPD version 32 bit legacy or is it true 64 bit when installing on a 64 bit server edition of Ubuntu? And performance wise is there a huge gap between the 32 bit and the 64 bit versions?

By: admin

admin — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 04:54:55 +0000

If you want to access files from different computer you can use samba for this.If you want to upload/download any files mainly ftp you can use ofcourse you can download some files from ftp server to use it

By: joshua peen

joshua peen — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 23:53:51 +0000

how to i access my files on different computer with thes

By: Guido Diaz

Guido Diaz — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:19:43 +0000

I installed ProFTPD On a Ubuntu box and I having issues with restricted to one directory. Right now the user that I created during the set up has access to the entire OS ..
Thanks .. Guido

By: chika.tambun

chika.tambun — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:38:41 +0000

why softlink on the http://ftp.server can’t be displayed on http://ftp.client?