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JD Isaacks
Asked: 2010-05-26 13:43:10 +0800 CST

How to change ftp path?

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I have apache installed on my ubuntu machine. you can access the server from other machines with http://linux-server The local path on the machine is /var/www I have installed vsftpd on the machine as well so I can ftp to the server from another machine with ftp://linux-server however it takes me to /home/myUserName I want the ftp to take me to the same place as the http. So how can I change the FTP path?

Thanks!

linux ftp apache-2.2

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    When you login as a user, vsftp will default to putting you in that user's home directory. If you want to ftp to linux-server and have it drop you into /var/www, the easiest way would be to create an FTP user who's home directory is set to /var/www.

    Alternately, a better solution might be to setup anonymous FTP, and make the anonymous FTP directory be /var/www/ (assuming you don't need it to be restricted and secured (of course, if you do, you should be using ssh/scp/sftp)).

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  2. the anonymous FTP directory is /var/ftp/. If you want to change it to another directory, do:

    sudo vi /etc/vsftpd.conf

    or in some cases:
    sudo vi /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf

    and edit this variable:
    anon_root=/NewDirectoryPath/ftp/

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