Installing FTP (vsFTPd) Service on Ubuntu Server

FTP is an indispensable feature of servers that host and serve websites as it enables us to easily upload stuff to the remote server. On a Ubuntu server, with a little help of aptitude command (the package management program descended from Debian), you can install the most simple yet most common FTP daemon program for your server: vsFTPd.

apt-get install vsftpd

It is started automatically after successful installation. Stop it:

/etc/init.d/vsftpd stop

So that you can customize the configuration file:

vi /etc/vsftpd.conf

And make it look like:

pasv_enable=YES
pasv_max_port=8010
pasv_min_port=8001

anonymous_enable=NO
local_enable=YES
write_enable=YES
local_umask=022

idle_session_timeout=3600

chroot_local_user=YES

pam_service_name=ftp

Restart the FTP service:

/etc/init.d/vsftpd start

Now you can try connecting to the FTP and transferring some stuff.