Question
Temporary FTP access to directory
Hello all,
I’m trying to give a developer temporary ftp access to a directory.
I normally ftp via ssh, though trying to keep things simple I thought only giving them access to the theme directory regular FTP would be sufficient.
I set up the user -> adduser demo
Changed their home directory to the theme directory -> usermod -m -d /path/to/theme/directory/ demo
Setup FTP following this tutorial -> https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-vsftpd-on-ubuntu-12-04
When I try and connect via Filezilla I get the message -> Error: Connection timed out
Error: Could not connect to server
Just wondering if I’m missing anything.
Thanks in advance.
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Is vsftpd started?
service vsftpd status
If it is not running, start it
Is anything listening on port 21
netstat -tulpn | grep :21
Let me know how you make out.
^ exactly what I was about to ask. I suspect you may need to start your ftp service.
Thanks guys, forgot to open port 21 on the firewall.