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

  • Posted December 16, 2014

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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notanothervps • March 12, 2015

I have the same problem.

So near and yet so far.

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s4suryapal • June 23, 2015

how to get list of groups ??

s4suryapal • April 19, 2015

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

bravotheme • December 17, 2014

Same Question

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

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 anonymous_enable=NO local_enable=YES write_enable=YES dirmessage_enable=YES use_localtime=YES xferlog_enable=YES connect_from_port_20=YES secure_chroot_dir=/var/run/vsftpd/empty pam_service_name=vsftpd rsa_cert_file=/etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem rsa_private_key_file=/etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key

chroot_local_user=YES allow_writeable_chroot=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.

Arman Shahinyan • 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”