Virtual ftp users

[mudder-board]

I used http://www.howtoforge.com/proftpd_mysql_virtual_hosting
Everything went great, I made a few changes for instance, the doc root. I don't keep user doc roots in the home directory, well anyway I pointed it to /var/www/directory. The user logs in fine but can't transfer files, is this just because its in var/www ? Any suggestions are appreciated.

[falko]

I think it's a problem with the permissions. Please compare the permissions with the ones of the previous directory.

Also, what are the exact error messages?

[mudder-board]

The directory is in /var/www both have the same permissions
drwxr-xr-x

Feed back from my ftp client
27 Entering Passive Mode (xx,xx,xx,xx,xx,xx).
STOR custsup.jpg
Connect socket #2428 to xx.xx.xx.xx, port 33991...
550 custsup.jpg: Permission denied
custsup.jpg - 0 bytes transferred
Transfer time: 00:00:02
PASV
27 Entering Passive Mode (xx,xx,xx,xx,xx,xx).
LIST
Connect socket #2544 to xx.xx.xx.xx, port 33992...
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list
226 Transfer complete.
Transferred 1,647 bytes in 0.015 seconds

But nothing actually transfers. Do you think its a directory issue or user permission

[falko]

The directory is in /var/www both have the same permissions
drwxr-xr-x

And by which user and group is it owned?

[mudder-board]

I followed the "How to" to the letter, only changing the path to the directory that the user had permission to use. So the group is ftpgroup and proftpd is a user, then I added another user to the group.

[falko]

What are the outputs of ls -la /home and ls -la /var/www?

[mudder-board]

ls -la /home
total 20
drwxrwsr-x 5 root staff 4096 2006-11-19 12:55 .
drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 2006-10-25 18:58 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 user1 user1 4096 2006-10-20 18:00 user1
drwxr-xr-x 2 ftp nogroup 4096 2006-10-15 18:13 ftp
drwxr-xr-x 2 user2 user2 4096 2006-11-21 19:39 user2

ls -la /var/www
total 28
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 2006-11-21 19:38 .
drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 2006-10-15 17:54 ..
drwxr-xr-x 3 user2 user2 4096 2006-11-21 19:39 site1
drwxr-xr-x 4 user2 user2 4096 2006-11-19 10:08 site2
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 2006-11-19 18:24 site3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2006-11-13 17:44 phpmyadmin -> /usr/share/
phpmyadmin
drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 2006-10-17 19:50 .ssh
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2006-10-15 18:20 webalizer

[falko]

You can try this:
chgrp staff /var/www
chmod 2775 /var/www