INSTALL FTP ON OPEN LITESPEED SERVER WITH CORRECT PERMISSION

If you’ve landed on this page, you’re probably looking for a FTP setup with Open LiteSpeed. Lets talk about the most reliable, fastest web hosting server.

Open LiteSpeed Project - OpenLiteSpeed is the Open Source edition of LiteSpeed Web Server Enterprise. Read for more details.

ProFTPD - ProFTPD grew out of the desire to have a secure and configurable FTP server.

What Do FTP Servers Do?

FTP servers, and the more secure SFTP Server software, perform 2 basic tasks: “Put” and “Get.” You can put files on the FTP Server or get files from the FTP Server. Every website designer or developer need solution to work fast on web hosting server for regular website maintenance.

What we did and why ?

One of our client requested to setup web server with performance and security. We selected AWS Instance and OpenLiteSpeed, Free version of LiteSpeed Web Server as per budget.

Installation for Open LiteSpeed was easy and fast. Just follow below links

https://openlitespeed.org/kb/install-ols-from-litespeed-repositories/

How to add website ( Virtual Host ) -

https://openlitespeed.org/kb/setting-up-name-based-virtual-hosting-on-openlitespeed/

After this complexity started. How to give access to developer as they requested FTP access ? :-) After investing half day, we decided to install ProFTPD which is quite simple using below steps.

Install Proftpd

Create FTP User (Add user in ProFTPD for virtual host directory access)

Assuming you have created virtual host for domain and their HOMEDIR is under /home only.

domain - domainname.com

Fix Permission

// Add user in nobody group after creating ftp user

// Correct permission

// Change owner of domain directory

I hope this (answer) helps someone like me.

Tips - Wait 3 to 5 mins if you not able to get desired result on browser. Sometime it is becuase of cache. Clear browser cache if required.

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