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How To Set Up ProFTPD on CentOS 6
Status: Deprecated
This article covers a version of CentOS that is no longer supported. If you are currently operating a server running CentOS 6, we highly recommend upgrading or migrating to a supported version of CentOS.
Reason: CentOS 6 reached end of life (EOL) on November 30th, 2020 and no longer receives security patches or updates. For this reason, this guide is no longer maintained.
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This guide might still be useful as a reference, but may not work on other CentOS releases. If available, we strongly recommend using a guide written for the version of CentOS you are using.
About ProFTPD
ProFTPD is a popular ftp server. Because it was written as a powerful and configurable program, it is not necessarily the lightest ftp server available.
Step One—Install ProFTPD
Before we do anything else, we need to download the EPEL repository which will allow us to install ProFTPD on our virtual private server with yum.
sudo rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
The next step is to install ProFTPD
sudo yum install proftpd
Finally, we must also download a ftp client, so that we can connect to an ftp server from the command line:
sudo yum install ftp
Once the files finish downloading, the ProFTPD server will be on your VPS. However, we still have to make a few changes to the configuration.
Step Two—Configure ProFTPD
Once ProFTPD is installed, you can make the needed adjustments in the configuration. Unlike some other ftp configurations, ProFTPD disables anonymous login from the outset and we only need to address a small change in the config file.
Open up the file:
sudo vi /etc/proftpd.conf
Go ahead and change the Server Name to your host name.
ServerName "example.com"
Save and Exit from that file.
Then, to prevent any issues, add your droplet name and IP address to the hosts file:
sudo vi /etc/hosts
The line can look something like this:
12.34.56.789 servername
Restart after you have made all of your changes:
sudo service proftpd restart
Step Three—Access the FTP server
<p?Once you have installed the FTP server and configured it to your liking, you can now access it.
You can reach an FTP server in the browser by typing the domain name into the address bar and logging in with the appropriate ID. Keep in mind, you will only be able to access the user's home directory.
ftp://example.com
Alternatively, you can reach the FTP server through the command line by typing:
ftp example.com
Then you can use the word, "exit," to get out of the FTP shell.
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After a long hacks and cracks on google Finally got this working BIG THANKS
I’m so glad to hear it! Thank you! :D
Hmmm… failed at the beginning.
rpm -Uvh http://mirror.metrocast.net/fedora/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-7.noarch.rpm Retrieving http://mirror.metrocast.net/fedora/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-7.noarch.rpm curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404 error: skipping http://mirror.metrocast.net/fedora/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-7.noarch.rpm - transfer failed
I have updated the link-- it is now “http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm”
Well, I’ve come up with an alternative process. Go here, http://repoforge.org/use/, and download the appropriate rpmforge-release package, then do rpm -Uvh rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm.
Once I did this, yum installed proftpd-mysql without a problem.
Hello,
Why when i connect the is not folders??!
thanks!
uh, I have missed the root config ;)
thanks , this help me a lot
Please, how to configure a username, a password … a user folder , etc ? This article is usefull but incomplete !
@mirkotebaldi you use the same username/password combination as the one you use for SSH.
Use https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
Doesnt work for me
[root@media graeca]# sudo service proftpd restart Shutting down proftpd: [FAILED] Starting proftpd: [FAILED]
going to google search how to install :(
Check the error logs for errors:
<pre>tail /var/log/proftpd/ftpd.log</pre> or <pre>tail /var/log/secure</pre>
A viable and secure alternative to ProFTP is SFTP: <a href=“https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-use-filezilla-to-transfer-and-manage-files-securely-on-your-vps”>How To Use Filezilla to Transfer and Manage Files Securely on your VPS</a>.
i did all of the above, and when i try to login using the root or my other account, it says “login failed”, and i double checked it…
@Dor: Ditch FTP and use SFTP instead. See <a href=“https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-use-filezilla-to-transfer-and-manage-files-securely-on-your-vps”>https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-use-filezilla-to-transfer-and-manage-files-securely-on-your-vps</a>.
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someone can help me? i create a user/passwd and set to the directory of the domain. I also put the user as owner and group of the directory! but, when i try to access for desktop/programFTP i received: STATUS:> [21/02/2014 13:31:56] Connecting to FTP server… ftp.xxx.com:21 (ip = 162.243.xxx.207
@webgaha: What problem are you experiencing?
@Kamal Nasser ERROR:> [24/02/2014 12:51:36] The remote host actively refused the attempt to connect to it.
problem solved!
i have one domain using SSL if i add another domain and add permission to FTP for new domain my SSL stop working. instead pointing to website domain SSL it’s point to Zpanel Administration site.
I notice this thread is old. I have DO server on Centos 7 and wondering if there is a change or updated version of the FTP server software to install as this all relative to version 6. Can anybody help ? Also, I need this installed to get support for external extension and want to also know how this FTP works in principle when I install it. So I take when this FTP is installed on the server there is a password and user ID to give to the external support guys to install files ? Is this the jist of what I am doing. any help would be great.
Newby dude ;-)
how to edit a file in console ctrl E or something