proftpd ftpuser vs. www-data user?

I have proftpd running for users to upload files to a webserver with many virtual hosts. Currently I've created ftpuser/ftpgroup as non-privileged user for proftpd, but this causes problems with php scripts that need to run as www-data once uploaded. I've added ftpuser to /etc/group for www-data, but this doesn't help. Is there any issue with telling proftpd to use the user/group www-data?

 

I don't think so.

 

I tried to do this through

UserOwner www-data
GroupOwner www-data

but that needs to be in a <Directory> container I think, anyway, it didn't work.
I then changed the ftpgroup table in msql to:
groupname: www-data
gid: 33
members: www-data

and my user login in the ftpuser table to:
uid: 33
gid: 33

and I still get "permission denied" when attempting to upload, the folder is owned by

www-data.www-data

and I can login okay. There are no errors in the logs.

 

Can you go to the directory that you tried to upload to and post the output of

Code:

ls -la

?

 

Code:

drwxr-xr-x 22 www-data www-data 4096 2008-09-27 17:34 foldername

inside that folder

Code:

drwxr-xr-x  9 www-data www-data    12288 2008-08-16 17:36 somefolder
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data        6 2008-08-16 17:36 somefile.txt

 

Can you post the full outputs?