When a ftp user logs in, goes to his /web/ folder and creates a directory like /web/test/ for example, it appears to work just fine, but only via ftp. If I (as root) examine /var/www/web1/web/ the created /test/ folder is nowhere to be found? Logging in as a ftp user once again, I see the folder still there. The same applies to files uploaded into this folder. If I place an index.html file in there (via ftp) and try to go to that url in the browser, I get 404 error. Why is this happening? Where do the files uploaded via ftp go, and why aren't index.html files working outside of the users web root?
This behaviour is normal, a webserver or the ftp user can not acess file sor folders created by root of course. After you create a file as root, you will hae to change th owner (user and group) of the file: chown ftpuser:web1 test Also make sure, that you enabled the administratorr checkbox of the user that you use to upload the ftp files.
