How can I create FTP user account, How to Point DocumentRoot (/var/www/html/)?

December 16, 2014 23.7k views
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I need to create Directory inside on DocumentRoot. How to set permissions?

I tried vbut getting
Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /mailboxtool/ on this server.

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texeltexel2009 December 16, 2014

For creating FTP accounts I recommend you to first set up a secure FTP with vsftpd: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-vsftpd-on-ubuntu-12-04.
Each new user you add in Linux will serve to connect as FTP user.

To create a new directory in /var/www/html execute:
cd /var/www/html -> will navigate to the html directory
mkdir your-directory-name -> will create the directory named "your-directory-name"

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william947342 December 17, 2014

Thanks for your kind information.

I have a doubt? Normal user account point to default user home directory( /home/user1/). In this case I access FTP through this user it point to /hom/user1/. Can I access apache document root (/var/www/html/new directory/ using this user1 account. I am using Fillzilla client.

I tried, this..

root@digidom:~# apt-get install vsftpd
root@digidom:~# cp /etc/vsftpd.conf /etc/vsftpd.conf.back

root@digidom:~# egrep -v '^#|^$' /etc/vsftpd.conf
listen=YES
anonymousenable=NO
localenable=YES
writeenable=YES
dirmessageenable=YES
uselocaltime=YES
xferlogenable=YES
connectfromport20=YES
securechrootdir=/var/run/vsftpd/empty
pamservicename=vsftpd
rsacertfile=/etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem
rsaprivatekeyfile=/etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key

chrootlocaluser=YES
allowwriteablechroot=YES

root@digidom:~# useradd -m -d /var/www/html/ -s /sbin/nologin mailftp
root@digidom:~# mkdir mailboxtool

root@digidom:/var/www/html# ll
total 32
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 15 05:26 ./
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 12 10:28 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11510 Dec 12 10:28 index.html
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 15 05:26 mailboxtool/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23 Dec 12 11:03 phpinfo.php

In this Time I get error "Forbidden You don't have permission to access "

Kindly solve my issue.

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bravotheme December 17, 2014

Same Question

I can not change user home directory to /var/www/html

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s4suryapal April 19, 2015

how to change user home directory to /var/www/html ??

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  • kamaln7 MOD April 21, 2015

    You can change a user's home directory by running the following command:

    sudo usermod -d /path/to/new/home/directory user

    If you wish to move all the contents under the user's current home directory to the new one, simply pass the -m option as well to usermod:

    sudo usermod -m -d /path/to/new/home/directory user
  • ClockworkHero April 22, 2015

    Don't forget to add the username to that usermod command, e.g.:

    sudo usermod -d /path/to/new/home/directory frankie
  • kamaln7 MOD April 23, 2015

    Oh, my bad. Thanks @ClockworkHero, I've corrected it :)

s4suryapal June 23, 2015

how to get list of groups ??

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  • aysadx April 16, 2018

    the question is very low level but here is the answer:

    you can get the list of all group like

    cat /etc/group
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