Comments on: How to Install and Configure FTP Server in Ubuntu

By: Navas

Navas — Sat, 18 Dec 2021 02:52:43 +0000

Hi Mr. Aaron Kili,

Thanks for your help

I have received error of “553 could not create file “

Kindly help me to resolve THANKS again

By: Andrew Woolley

Andrew Woolley — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 12:01:59 +0000

Hi Aaron,

Thanks for your help!

I was wondering if it is possible to make the local_root folder on an external drive?

I tried "local_root/media///" but I kept getting the error “cannot change directory /media///“.

Is it because I need to give the FTP user permission somehow?

Thanks,
Andrew.

By: Ash

Ash — Mon, 08 Jun 2020 15:52:56 +0000

In reply to Yuri. I had the same issue. There was a weird whitespace character at the end of "userlist_deny=NO". It worked after I removed the whitespace.

By: Aaron Kili

Aaron Kili — Mon, 06 Jan 2020 08:30:02 +0000

In reply to Yuri.

@Yuri

Check your /etc/vsftpd.conf configuration file for any invalid arguments.

By: Yuri

Yuri — Fri, 03 Jan 2020 13:35:24 +0000

Hello. First, thank you for so big tutorial, but I have some problems with it. I am using raspberry pi 4 with working with the ubuntu server.

Updating and upgrading were successful.
Installation too.
But I can’t “start” it.

After command sudo systemctl start vsftpd and sudo systemctl enable vsftpd all was good.

Then I checked the status with command sudo service vsftpd status and the FTP server is failed. Here is information about it:

● vsftpd.service - vsftpd FTP server Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/vsftpd.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2020-01-03 13:15:21 UTC; 27s ago Main PID: 3012 (code=exited, status=2)

Jan 03 13:15:21 ubuntu systemd[1]: Starting vsftpd FTP server... Jan 03 13:15:21 ubuntu systemd[1]: Started vsftpd FTP server. Jan 03 13:15:21 ubuntu systemd[1]: vsftpd.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=2/INVALIDARGUMENT Jan 03 13:15:21 ubuntu systemd[1]: vsftpd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

I checked again with – sudo ufw status
Here is the result – Status: inactive

I can’t understand what can be wrong.
Maybe you can help.