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I've recently installed proftp on my debian squeeze linode. It works so far but I'm facing several issues now.

In an FTP client such as FileZilla, I am able to access the server and download files without problems, but upload isn't prossible. Trying results in 550 test.txt: Permission denied.

I'm also trying to download/upload directly from NetBeans, but NetBeans reports a 550 permission denied message in both cases. See below the result when downloading a file.

Connection can be established successfully unless sub directories are specified in the settings.

220 ProFTPD 1.3.3a Server (Debian) [::ffff:178.79.184.96]
USER userftp
331 Password required for userftp
PASS ******
230 User userftp logged in
TYPE I
200 Type set to I
CWD /site.co.uk/public_html
550 /site.co.uk/public_html: No such file or directory
CWD /
250 CWD command successful
CWD site.co.uk
550 site.co.uk: No such file or directory
MKD site.co.uk
550 gwerks.vegetav.co.uk: Permission denied
QUIT
221 Goodbye.

The following is appended to the proftp.conf file:

#VALID LOGINS
<Limit LOGIN>
AllowUser userftp
DenyALL
</Limit>

<Directory /srv/www/>
Umask 022 022
AllowOverwrite on
        <Limit MKD STOR DELE XMKD RNEF RNTO RMD XRMD CWD>
        AllowAll
        </Limit>
</Directory>
Jonathan Leffler
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vseager
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    Try to change permission `chmod -R 0775 /var/www/your_folder/` it works for me –  Dec 29 '11 at 03:08
  • try also `chown -R userftp:userftp /srv/www/` both commands solved my issue – Darj Jan 31 '13 at 00:33

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chown -R (FTPUSER) /(path)/(to_your_ftp)/

Or in my case:

chown -R wordpress /home/wordpress/public_html
Jack Bonneman
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Alexandro Giles
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  • I cannot "chown" ... it says the user doesn't exist... also "id myftpuser" is not listed there... but I can see FTP using this user – Martin Zvarík Apr 26 '23 at 20:40
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best way for this problem is : 

chown -R myftpUser:apache /srv/www/

myftpUser : your ftp user or any user that you like use it

apache : apache

apache is default user group, if it's installed in Linux automatically created by apache

it is very important that you don't use just myftpUser:myftpUserGroup , because if you use this method server will give you HTTP Error 500

Rai Rz
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I have just found a solution to this problem

Find the following line in /etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf

Set off to disable IPv6 support which is annoying on IPv4 only boxes. UseIPv6 on

Switch this to 'off'

Restart the server

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