Hello, I have installed a web server following the perfect setup howto for suse 10.1 and put ispconfig on it. I am using vsftpd as ftp server. Now my first page is online and I created a user. I can connect via ftp using that user, but I am not allowed to upload data. When I try so via ispconfig, I get the message: FTP: Failed to write Array/.htaccess When I try via Firefox and FireFTP, i get the output: 200 Switching to Binary mode. PASV 227 Entering Passive Mode (xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx) STOR favicon.ico 550 Permission denied. TYPE A 200 Switching to ASCII mode. PASV 227 Entering Passive Mode (xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx) LIST 150 Here comes the directory listing. 226 Directory send OK. (xxx is the server IP) It is obvious that I am missing privileges, but why? And what can I do about it? What is wrong here? Any ideas? Thank you! regards, Tom
What's the output of Code: ls -la /path/to/directory ? (Please replace /path/to/directory with your FTP directory.)
Hello, this is the output you requested: (it's the directory web in the www.pagename.tld directory) drwxrwxr-x 4 web2_raji web2 4096 2006-11-15 15:05 . drwxr-xr-x 8 web2_raji web2 4096 2006-11-16 22:00 .. drwxrwxr-x 2 web2_raji web2 4096 2006-11-14 16:20 error -rw-rw-r-- 1 web2_raji web2 1289 2006-11-16 22:00 index.html drwxr-xr-x 2 web2_raji web2 4096 2006-11-16 04:00 stats web2_raji is the user I used to log in via ftp. regards, Tom
Hello Falko, the vsftpd.config file is rather large, so I cut out the most of the comments and the 'logging' part. Hope this is OK for you: # General Settings #write_enable=YES dirmessage_enable=YES #nopriv_user=ftpsecure ftpd_banner="Willkommen beim xxxxxxxxxxxxxx !" #ls_recurse_enable=YES #deny_email_enable=YES #banned_email_file=/etc/vsftpd.banned_emails #hide_ids=YES local_enable=YES #local_umask=022 chroot_local_user=YES #chroot_list_enable=YES #chroot_list_file=/etc/vsftpd.chroot_list #local_max_rate=7200 # deny root access (edited by tom) userlist_enable=YES userlist_file=/etc/vsftpd.user_list anonymous_enable=NO anon_world_readable_only=YES #anon_upload_enable=YES #anon_umask=022 #anon_mkdir_write_enable=YES #anon_other_write_enable=YES #chown_uploads=YES #chown_username=whoever #anon_max_rate=7200 # Transfer Settings connect_from_port_20=YES #idle_session_timeout=600 #data_connection_timeout=120 #async_abor_enable=YES #ascii_upload_enable=YES #ascii_download_enable=YES #pasv_enable=NO pam_service_name=vsftpd listen=NO ssl_enable=NO The userlist pointed at by the config file just contains root at the moment. The confíg file is pretty much the default config that comes with the installation. I did already suspect this file to be the problem, but I wasn't able to find the responsible line. regards, Tom
I think you should play around with these settings and see if this changes anything: userlist_enable=YES chown_uploads=YES chown_username=whoever
Hello, thank you for your help, but in the meantime I found it out myself. I just needed to uncomment the line: #write_enable=YES It's pretty obvious, but I read a vsftp doc that made me believe that this command would allow anonymous writing on the server (which is correct, in some way). The whole truth is that it generally prevents/enables write commands for the whole ftp server (at least this is what I got from another doc.... ) So everything works for me just fine now. I wish to point out that ISPconfig is an extremely fine piece of software! thank you, regards, Tom
