FTP doesn´t work

[erkan]

Hi

I have just now installed ISPConfig and ProFTPD. I have created a site and an FTP account in the ISPConfig control panel but when I try to login to the FTP account using my FTP client it just says "login incorrect".

Does someone know what I can do to find out what is wrong?

[till]

ISPConfig requires pure-ftpd and not proftpd. Please see installation tutorials here on how to prepare your server to install ispconfig:

http://www.ispconfig.org/ispconfig-3/documentation/

[erkan]

Ok, I tried PureFTPD first but couldn´t get that to work but I will try again.

[till]

Which tutoriald did you use to prepare your server for the installation of ispconfig and is this a virtual server?

[erkan]

Yes it is a virtual server, OpenVZ.

I used this guide:

http://library.linode.com/web-applications/control-panels/ispconfig/debian-6-squeeze

And then I complemented with this for the FTP:

http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-server-debian-squeeze-ispconfig-2-p5

[till]

The guide from linode seems to be quite incomplete, many required packages and settings are missing.

I recommend to uninstall ispconfig with the uninstall.php script from the ispconfig tar.gz, then redo all steps from the official ispconfig tutorial starting with step 8:

http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-server-debian-squeeze-with-bind-and-courier-ispconfig-3-p3

The pure-fpd package from Debian does not work on openvz by default as capabilities in openvz are disbaled. To install it, use this guide form ispconfig faq:

http://www.faqforge.com/linux/controlpanels/how-to-build-a-pure-ftpd-debian-package-for-openvz-virtual-machines-without-capabilities-enabled/

do this right after you finished step 13 of the perfect server guide.

[erkan]

Ok thanks! I will try that and get back to you when I have the result!

[erkan]

Yes it worked! Thank you so very much!

[erkan]

Ok now I got problems again.

When I follow this guide: http://www.faqforge.com/linux/controlpanels/how-to-build-a-pure-ftpd-debian-package-for-openvz-virtual-machines-without-capabilities-enabled/

It seems that I have downloaded a newer version of pureftpd so the file names in the commands is wrong for me.

So far I have figured out that the version I have downloaded is 1.0.28. So I thought that I just change the commands. But there is one command that doesn´t work when I change it, this:

dpkg -i pure-ftpd-common_1.0.21-11.4_all.deb pure-ftpd-mysql_1.0.21-11.4_i386.deb

I tried to change it to:

dpkg -i pure-ftpd-common_1.0.28-11.4_all.deb pure-ftpd-mysql_1.0.28-11.4_i386.deb

But that didn´t work, I guess the -11.4 is supposd to be something else for my version but I don´t know what to change it to?

[till]

Run:

ls -la

command in the direcotory after you compiled pure-ftpd and then install the .deb files that start with pure-ftpd-common and pure-ftpd-mysql that you find there.

[erkan]

Ok I am new a this so I think I need more explanation because I can´t get it to work. All I get is "command not found".

[till]

The ls command is part of any linux shell, so it must be there. Execute this exact command:

ls -la

and post the output.

[erkan]

Now it worked, this it the output:

total 104
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Oct 26 2010 .
drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 4096 May 11 16:21 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 36864 May 11 16:42 bin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 8 2011 games
drwxr-xr-x 43 root root 4096 May 11 16:42 include
drwxr-xr-x 55 root root 20480 May 11 16:42 lib
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 May 11 16:20 lib64 -> lib
drwxrwsr-x 10 root staff 4096 Jul 8 2010 local
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 May 11 16:37 sbin
drwxr-xr-x 100 root root 4096 May 11 16:42 share
drwxrwsr-x 3 root dip 4096 May 11 16:41 src

[falko]

What's the output of ls -la /usr/src/pure-ftpd/?

[erkan]

This is the output:

total 1400
drwxr-sr-x 3 root dip 4096 May 11 16:51 .
drwxrwsr-x 3 root dip 4096 May 11 16:41 ..
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 May 11 16:51 pure-ftpd-1.0.28
-rw-r--r-- 1 root dip 180678 May 11 16:51 pure-ftpd-common_1.0.28-3+squeeze1_all.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root dip 139310 May 11 16:51 pure-ftpd-ldap_1.0.28-3+squeeze1_amd64.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root dip 153432 May 11 16:51 pure-ftpd-mysql_1.0.28-3+squeeze1_amd64.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root dip 140206 May 11 16:51 pure-ftpd-postgresql_1.0.28-3+squeeze1_amd64.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root dip 47048 Jan 17 20:47 pure-ftpd_1.0.28-3+squeeze1.diff.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root dip 1340 Jan 17 20:47 pure-ftpd_1.0.28-3+squeeze1.dsc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root dip 2421 May 11 16:51 pure-ftpd_1.0.28-3+squeeze1_amd64.changes
-rw-r--r-- 1 root dip 123596 May 11 16:51 pure-ftpd_1.0.28-3+squeeze1_amd64.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root dip 605000 Feb 15 2010 pure-ftpd_1.0.28.orig.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root dip 98 May 11 16:44 rules

[falko]

You must run
dpkg -i pure-ftpd-common_1.0.28-3+squeeze1_all.deb pure-ftpd-mysql_1.0.28-3+squeeze1_amd64.deb

[erkan]

When it is about to install the second package I get this error message:

invoke-rc.d: initscript pure-ftpd-mysql, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing pure-ftpd-mysql (--install):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 252
Errors were encountered while processing:
pure-ftpd-mysql