FTP Users and Directory Access

[jasonbaldwin]

Using ProFTPd which is working fine as long as I upload and download to the home directory I've logged into.

But, I'd like to be able to upload web files to the apache server which uses files in /var/www/html/<directory>

I've tried all sorts of things, I can log in and cd to /var but then te cd to ./www fails?
and i can't write to /var either?

I'm sure it must be a config issue in the proftpd.conf file.

Anyone got any clues?

Thanks,
Jason

[johny]

My guess is that the user ProFTPd runs under (or the user you use to log in via ftp, I'm not sure which one is important) does not have (write) access to /var/www/html.

[diablo93]

here are some sections from my proftpd.conf for you, first check out this section.....

# Use this to excude users from the chroot
DefaultRoot /var/ftp/pub ftpspecial

ftpspecial is just a group that my users must be in to access /var/ftp/pub
(my ftp directory) if they are not in that group, then they get their home directory

and add this line to the end of your config file

DefaultChdir /var/ftp/pub/

the paths on these can obviously be changed to your www directory or whatever you want the FTP server to point to, as long as the user the proftpd service is running as has permissions to that directory.

this should work for anyone logging in, if you want anonymous then it takes a few more lines. the proftpd website helped me out a lot in getting this setup, the instructions were pretty decent. try these lines though, they sound like they are what you are missing.