Q. How do I configure and install an FTP server in CentOS / RHEL 5 / Fedora Linux server?
A. CentOS / RHEL server comes with vsftpd which is the Very Secure File Transfer Protocol (FTP) daemon. The server can be launched via a xinetd or as standalone mode, in which case vsftpd itself will listen on the network port 21.
How do I install vsftpd?
Simply type the following command as a superuser (root):
# yum install vsftpd
WARNING! These examples open your computer to insecure ftp protocol. If possible use SFTP ftp secure sever which is inbuilt into OpenSSH SSHD server.Turn on vsftpd ftp service
Type the following command:
# chkconfig vsftpd on
How do I start vsftpd ftp server?
Type the following command:
# service vsftpd start
How do I stop vsftpd ftp server?
Type the following command:
# service vsftpd stop
How do I restart vsftpd ftp server?
Type the following command:
# service vsftpd restart
Open FTP port
Open /etc/sysconfig/iptables file, enter:
# vi /etc/sysconfig/iptables
Append following line to open ftp port 21 before REJECT line:
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 21 -j ACCEPT
Save and close the file. Restart the firewall:
# service iptables start
Test ftp server
Type the following command:
$ ftp localhost
$ ftp ftp.server.com
$ ftp 202.54.1.1
How do I configure vsftpd server?
The default configuration file is /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf file. You can open file with vi text editor:
# vi /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf
See see vsftpd.conf man pages for all configuration options.
$ man vsftpd.conf
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{ 11 comments… read them below or add one }
ho3…
how about proftpd vs vsftpd?
i wanna install this kind of application soon…
pls send the details…. configuration of ftp server in linux
here mentioned only iptables concept. I may except /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf
when we create yum server that time we use cmmand
cp -dpr * /var/ftp/pub
i want to ask that why we copy that in /var/ftp/pub and what we copy
I had to add this to my /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf:
pasv_min_port=12000
pasv_max_port=12003
And the firewall exception:
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p tcp -m tcp -m state –dport 12000:12003 –state NEW -j ACCEPT
But it all works now :)
File size for FTP
Can we limit file size for FTP ? Download/upload not over 2 MB size ? or something like that ?
simple and to the point article, very useful for beginners. thaks.
This guide is sort of useless. Could you not tell us the expected output, so we know we’ve done it right?
Quick, simple, elegant article – thanks.
Great article. It contains everything i needed. While other locations contained some important information, the information that really saved me was the allowing of port 21 through the firewall, since most OS don’t have it as a default.
Thank for your information…….