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Fixing permission errors with vsftpd on Ubuntu
Hi,
I’ve followed the steps to setup vsftpd on my Ubuntu 12.04 VPS and I can connect to the server with my specially-created FTP user. My issue is that I want that user to have access to /var/www/ (where I keep all my nginx sites). I can browse to that directory but can’t modify anything there – I see things like “550 Delete operation failed” when I try.
I think I could fix this by chown'ing the www directory for my FTP user, but is this a bad idea? I don’t know what permissions nginx expects on that folder – would this break things? Is there a better solution? I just want to be able to upload large files (MP3s etc) via FTP which can then be served on the web.
thanks!
matt
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