Virtual Hosting With Proftpd And MySQL (Incl. Quota)

[mtpocket]

Originally Posted by falko

Like this:

chown ftpuser:ftpgroup /path/to/directory

This would change the ownership of that directory only. If you also want to change the ownership of the files and directories that are in that directory, you'd run

chown -R ftpuser:ftpgroup /path/to/directory

Hello,
I really love this howto guide!
One question about ownership.. What do i need to change in order to permanently change the ownership? Ive tryed to just change
"('exampleuser', '1', MD5('secret'), '2001', '2001', '/home/www.example.com',"

To
"('exampleuser', '1', MD5('secret'), '33', '33', '/home/www.example.com',"

But it didn't work. I mainly use this guide to run a webserver, and i often get ownership problems when installing CMS's like Joomla and such. I use Debian and want the ownership set to Apache.

[falko]

I think I read somewhere that you cannot use user ids below 1000...

[mtpocket]

Thanks for your answer.

Ok, is there any other solution to my "problem" that dont include changing user/group settings in httpd.conf?

[falko]

You could add the Apache user to the ftpgroup group and then change the umask in /etc/proftpd.conf to 002 so that all uploaded files are also writable for the group.

[mtpocket]

Ah crap, im running pure-ftpd
Ive looked up some information about umask in pure-ftpd, and it seems to be a bit pain in the a**..

Well thanks for your help anyways

[mtpocket]

Originally Posted by falko

You could add the Apache user to the ftpgroup group and then change the umask in /etc/proftpd.conf to 002 so that all uploaded files are also writable for the group.

Hello falko,
I switched to Virtual Hosting With Proftpd And MySQL (Incl. Quota), this time and im wondering about the stuff you said earlyer. My Linux knowledge is somewhat limited (still learning). What did you mean by adding Apache user to ftpgroup, was it the groupmod -G thing; or something else?

[falko]

You can simply open /etc/group and add the Apache user to the ftp group.

[mtpocket]

Thanks Faklo
Ive added Apache to Ftpgroup now like this: ftpgroup:x:2001:www-data
One thing about Umask. There are two valuse to change:
Umask 022 022. Do i need to change both?

Thanks for your help Falko

[falko]

Try

Umask 002 002

so that groups can write, too.

[mtpocket]

Super, it worked
My questions is like a never ending story When i used Pureftp i never had to wait to login, now with Proftpd it takes a while to login.. Any ideas?
I use Debian 3.1 (minimal install).

Edit:
I got the ftp problem sorted