553 Could not create file on centos 7

Posted December 22, 2014

Hi there, I have setup vsftpd on centos 7. I creates a user by using -d option with along the location /var/www/cuong and successfully connect via ftp. Howere i try upload something to folder /var/www/cuong I get the error message “553 Could not create file.” Please help me Thanks,

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Ryan Quinn • June 22, 2016

In this situation the very first thing to do would be to check the permissions on the directory /var/www/cuong you can do this by running ls -lh /var/www

Make sure that the directory is both writeable and owned by your new user.