proftpd behind a NAT

[solved] proftpd behind a NAT

Hi there,

I first want to thank all the admins for their excellent insights into all the problems posted here. I've managed to solve a lot of my own by searching around this forum.

Here's one:

my ispconfig machine is at 192.168.110.6 behind a hardware router doing NAT for all the useful ports. I'm getting error 500 while attempting to login to the ftp server.

/etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf

Code:

PassivePorts                    27000 27100 # as NATted through the router
MasqueradeAddress               the.routers.public.ip

...

Include /etc/proftpd_ispconfig.conf
<EOF>

/etc/proftpd_ispconfig.conf

Code:

DefaultAddress 127.0.0.1
<VirtualHost the.routers.public.ip>
        DefaultRoot             ~
        AllowOverwrite          on
        Umask                   002
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost 192.168.110.6>
        DefaultRoot             ~
        AllowOverwrite          on
        Umask                   002
</VirtualHost>

If I make it look like the following, ftp login just works.

Code:

#DefaultAddress 127.0.0.1
DefaultAddress 192.168.110.6
<VirtualHost the.routers.public.ip>
        DefaultRoot             ~
        AllowOverwrite          on
        Umask                   002
</VirtualHost>
#<VirtualHost 192.168.110.6>
#        DefaultRoot             ~
#        AllowOverwrite          on
#        Umask                   002
#</VirtualHost>

No firewall or whatsoever. I've also tried manually editing the file and removing the write permissions after, but ispconfig seems to overwrite it with the initial content.
Any idea how I should make ispconfig ignore that file?
Thanks.

 

yep, solved

thank you till, and keep up the good work.

ispconfig doesn't rewrite that file, nice