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How to I setup FTP to allow people to upload a website?

So I followed this tutorial: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-vsftpd-for-a-user-s-directory-on-ubuntu-16-04

But it limits the user to write only in their directory. Is there a tutorial for allowing users to write in the var/www folder?


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jarland
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July 18, 2018
Accepted Answer

Hello friend!

That can get a bit more complicated, but I found a discussion on it here which contains a few ideas about how you might accomplish it.

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/94603/limit-ftp-access-only-to-the-var-www-with-vsftpd

Kind Regards, Jarland

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