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Asked: 2019-09-04 16:43:15 +0800 CST

AWS EC2: Why can I access FTP from local address only?

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I have installed vsftpd on a Ubuntu server on AWS however I can not access it via its Elastic IP. If I ssh to the server, I can then ftp to it using its internal IP, but I can't ftp using its public IP. What am I doing wrong?

As far as I can recall, the only change I made to vsftp.conf was to uncomment local_enable=YES.

The FTP server is in a VPC. The default network ACL's are in place, and I have opened up TCP ports 20-22 to traffic from anywhere.

When I run ftp 13.my.ip.address it simply says the connection timed out.

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2 Answers

  1. Can you check below:

    1. Port 20 and 21 are open at security group.
    2. Above ports should be opened in iptables inside of host.
    3. Check which address ftp is listening.

    4. Is it enabled in any wrapper file(host allow/deny or userlist_file in conf) some config parameters are below.

      userlist_deny=NO

      userlist_enable=YES

      userlist_file=/etc/vsftpd.allowed_users

    Hope this will help.

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  2. I believe the default security group only has 22, 80 and 443 open, so you will need to open 21 if you haven't already.

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