Hi Tim, If FTP is still giving you a headache, you could use SCP or SVN/GIT revision control to roll out your changes to the server?
Regards, Alex On 8 February 2011 10:04, Tim <xendis...@gmx.com> wrote: > > I am running ubuntu 10.04LTS and have VSFTP installed, I can ftp to the local > users home folder without a problem but I need to be able to ftp to the web > servers /var/www/myfolder When I try to ftp to the /var/www/myfolder I get > critcal file transfer error (using Filezilla). > > I am guessing this is a user or group permission problem, at the > moment /var/www/myfolder is owned by user root and group web, the local user > (std user) is a member of the group web. What permission should I change the > folders and user to to get ftp access to the /var/www/myfolder (I am asking as > I don't want to randomly start changing permission and cock it up). > > This web server is not public facing > > -- > Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Wednesday 2011-03-02 20:00 > Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ > How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue > -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Wednesday 2011-03-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
