I have been following the tutorial Install and Configure VSFTPD server on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS but cannot connect when I get to the step of using my browser to connect using ftp://IP address. The response I get is Cannot reach this page. I have an SSH connection for both root and my UserName which can reach the website. I can ping the website so I conclude that vsftpd although showing started is in someway misconfigured. I did get an error code 2 INVALID ARGUMENT on my first attempt but I corrected the faulty argument in the vsftpd.conf. How can I find out what is stopping vsftpd from responding?
Hello, @Alan Cameron Please try to reconnect VSFTPD using following steps. Installing VSFTPD Step 1 :- Login to the server via SSH ssh ubuntu@SERVER-IP Step 2 :- Change into the root user sudo su Step 3 :- Install VSFTPD apt-get install vsftpd -y Step 4 :- Start VSFTPD and set it to start on boot systemctl start vsftpd systemctl enable vsftpd Step 5 :- Create a user for FTP access adduser vsftp Step 6 :- Make an FTP directory and set permissions mkdir /home/vsftp/ftp chown nobody:nogroup /home/vsftp/ftp chmod a-w /home/vsftp/ftp Step 7 :- Create an upload directory and set permissions mkdir /home/vsftp/ftp/test chown vsftp:vsftp /home/vsftp/ftp/test Configuring VSFTPD Step 1 :- Backup the configuration file cp /etc/vsftpd.conf /etc/vsftpd.conf.bak Step 2 :- Open the configuration file in your favourite text editor vi /etc/vsftpd.conf Step 3 :- Add the following lines to the file,then save and close the file: listen=NO listen_ipv6=YES anonymous_enable=NO local_enable=YES write_enable=YES local_umask=022 dirmessage_enable=YES use_localtime=YES xferlog_enable=YES connect_from_port_20=YES chroot_local_user=YES secure_chroot_dir=/var/run/vsftpd/empty pam_service_name=vsftpd pasv_enable=Yes pasv_min_port=10000 pasv_max_port=11000 user_sub_token=$USER local_root=/home/$USER/ftp userlist_enable=YES userlist_file=/etc/vsftpd.userlist userlist_deny=NO rsa_cert_file=/etc/cert/vsftpd.pem rsa_private_key_file=/etc/cert/vsftpd.pem ssl_enable=YES allow_anon_ssl=NO force_local_data_ssl=YES force_local_logins_ssl=YES ssl_tlsv1=YES ssl_sslv2=NO ssl_sslv3=NO require_ssl_reuse=NO ssl_ciphers=HIGH Step 4 :- Add the FTP user to VSFTP vi /etc/vsftpd.userlist Step 5 :- Create a certificate to connect via SSL mkdir /etc/cert openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 365 -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout /etc/cert/vsftpd.pem -out /etc/cert/vsftpd.pem Step 6 :- Restart VSFTP systemctl restart vsftpd Step 7:- Connect to the FTP server and visit ftp://YOUR-SERVER-IP I hope above information will be useful for you. Thank you.
