Files uploaded by ftp user vanish?

[mtnsnyder]

When a ftp user logs in, goes to his /web/ folder and creates a directory like /web/test/ for example, it appears to work just fine, but only via ftp.

If I (as root) examine /var/www/web1/web/ the created /test/ folder is nowhere to be found?

Logging in as a ftp user once again, I see the folder still there. The same applies to files uploaded into this folder. If I place an index.html file in there (via ftp) and try to go to that url in the browser, I get 404 error.

Why is this happening? Where do the files uploaded via ftp go, and why aren't index.html files working outside of the users web root?

[till]

This behaviour is normal, a webserver or the ftp user can not acess file sor folders created by root of course.

After you create a file as root, you will hae to change th owner (user and group) of the file:

chown ftpuser:web1 test

Also make sure, that you enabled the administratorr checkbox of the user that you use to upload the ftp files.

[mtnsnyder]

Thanks