Common FTP problem that I can't seem to solve

I installed ISPconfig and proftpd and both appear to be working. But like I have found others have experienced, even though the service of proftpd successfully starts, ISPConfig sees it as offline. I have tried to follow things that have worked for other people with not a whole lot of success because I really don't know much about hostnames specifically.

I have fedora core 9. And after every change I tried, I restarted proftpd and then refreshed the page to see if ISPconfig recognized it, which it hasn't. My firewall has port 21 unblocked. I don't get any error messages (just OK's) when restarting proftpd.

Here is my proftpd.conf:

Code:

# This is the ProFTPD configuration file

ServerName			"home-server"
ServerIdent			on "FTP Server ready."
ServerAdmin			root@localhost
ServerType			standalone
#ServerType			inetd
DefaultServer			on
AccessGrantMsg			"User %u logged in."
#DisplayConnect			/etc/ftpissue
#DisplayLogin			/etc/ftpmotd
#DisplayGoAway			/etc/ftpgoaway
DeferWelcome			off

SocketBindTight 		on


# Use this to excude users from the chroot
DefaultRoot			~ !adm

# Use pam to authenticate (default) and be authoritative
AuthPAMConfig			proftpd
AuthOrder			mod_auth_pam.c* mod_auth_unix.c

# Do not perform ident nor DNS lookups (hangs when the port is filtered)
IdentLookups			off
UseReverseDNS			off

# Port 21 is the standard FTP port.
Port				21

# Umask 022 is a good standard umask to prevent new dirs and files
# from being group and world writable.
Umask				022

# Default to show dot files in directory listings
ListOptions			"-a"

# See Configuration.html for these (here are the default values)
#MultilineRFC2228		off
#RootLogin			off
#LoginPasswordPrompt		on
#MaxLoginAttempts		3
#MaxClientsPerHost		none
#AllowForeignAddress		off	# For FXP

# Allow to resume not only the downloads but the uploads too
AllowRetrieveRestart		on
AllowStoreRestart		on

# To prevent DoS attacks, set the maximum number of child processes
# to 30.  If you need to allow more than 30 concurrent connections
# at once, simply increase this value.  Note that this ONLY works
# in standalone mode, in inetd mode you should use an inetd server
# that allows you to limit maximum number of processes per service
# (such as xinetd)
MaxInstances			20

# Set the user and group that the server normally runs at.
User				nobody
Group				nobody

# Disable sendfile by default since it breaks displaying the download speeds in
# ftptop and ftpwho
UseSendfile			no

# This is where we want to put the pid file
ScoreboardFile			/var/run/proftpd.score

# Normally, we want users to do a few things.
<Global>
  AllowOverwrite		yes
  <Limit ALL SITE_CHMOD>
    AllowAll
  </Limit>
</Global>

# Define the log formats
LogFormat			default	"%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %s %b"
LogFormat			auth	"%v [%P] %h %t \"%r\" %s"

everything after that is commented out so I assume its not important to include here.



The "netstat -tap | grep ftp" command results in:

Code:

(Not all processes could be identified, non-owned process info
 will not be shown, you would have to be root to see it all.)
tcp        0      0 home-server:ftp            *:*                         LISTEN      -       

My /etc/hosts file looks like this:

Code:

# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
192.168.1.1		localhost.localdomain localhost localhost
::1		localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6
192.168.1.3 home-server

I'm pretty sure its just an error with me naming things the wrong thing or something like that, but like I said I'm not too experienced with what all these hostname things are...

 

I tried reinsalling proftpd and it was a success but once again I have the same problem. If you dont know whats wrong could some one point me a good tutorial about this stuff so I can debug it myself?

 

Have you tried what chapter 19.2 on http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-server-fedora9-p6 suggests?

 

Thanks for that suggestion. I actually didnt try that.

Unfortunatly though after trying it now it still didn't fix anything. Any other tips?

 

Please modify /etc/hosts as follows:

Code:

# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1		localhost.localdomain localhost localhost
192.168.1.3 home-server
::1		localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6

and restart Proftpd. What does

Code:

netstat -tap

show then?

 

You are a life saver, falko. proftpd was recognized and everything works now. Thanks for taking the time to help me.