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Installing an FTP server
Installation
FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is a communication protocol designed to exchanged files on the TCP/IP network. Using a computer, it enables you to copy files to another network computer.
Let's see how you can set up an FTP service on a Gandi virtual machine.
The first step is to install ProFTP on the server
apt-get install proftpd
It is preferable to continue the installation in standalone, this way the FTP server will always be receptive. If you choose inetd, the FTP server will only be launched when a connexion is initialized.
Parameters
Using a text editor such as nano, edit the file called shells in the /etc/ directory and a line: ”/bin/false/”, as shown below:
For our example, let's create ftp folders and the upload and download sub domains, with 'read only' rights on download and 'read/write' for upload, so that users can upload files.
cd /home/ftp/ mkdir download upload cd /home sudo chmod 755 ftp cd ftp chmod 755 download chmod 777 upload
Now that the folders and rights are sorted, let's create a “gandi” account which will have access to the FTP
useradd gandi -p votre_mot_de_passe -d /home/ftp -s /bin/false passwd gandi
Now all that's left is to edit the /etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf file with nano to modify your server configuration (port address, server name, number of people who can connect…)
Launch the server using the following command:
sudo /etc/init.d/proftpd start
To stop it, replace start by stop, and use restart to… restart!
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Fatal: unable to load module 'mod_lang.c': Operation not permitted
failed!
To fix that problem, you just have to reconfigure locales packages :
dpkg-reconfigure locales
Then, set all languages packages in spite of the country you live in, and this error won't be any more.