Running FTP on CentOS

Here’s how you can easily setup FTP on CentOS

yum install vsftpd

Added these to the security group if you are running AWS EC2

Add port range 20-21 Add port range 1024-1048

vi /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf

Set anonymous_enable=NO
Set chroot_local_user=YES

Add these

pasv_enable=YES
pasv_min_port=1024
pasv_max_port=1048
pasv_address=<Public IP of your instance>

sudo service vsftpd restart

To make sure that the service is started on reboot

chkconfig --level 345 vsftpd on

Create new FTP User

useradd -d /path/to/new/home/dir -G apache userNameHere
chown userNameHere:apache /path/to/new/home/dir
passwd userNameHere

The log file can be found in /var/log/xferlog