vsftpd user directory permission denied

[Kasper]

I am trying to create an account for one of my friends whose site I am hosting so that he can ftp to my server and upload his site updates directly to the html folder. So I created a new user with a home of /var/www/html/foo where his username is foo. I have the permissions all the way up to that folder to be 755 and he owns his directory obviously. But when I login to ftp with that user, it says "500 OOPS: cannot change directory:/var/www/html/foo". Even when I made him own all the directories up to his it still didn't work. Does anyone know what might cause this?

[Kasper]

For some reason, if I make his home in /home/foo and then make /var/www/html/foo a symbolic link he can login but then it says the site is forbidden. FollowSymLinks is placed in the Options declaration in httpd.conf in Directory /var/www/html. Any ideas?

[smfinley]

See the FTP server and Web server sections here.