FTP server that sets user automatically..

3dcandy · 1 Mar 2011 at 14:01

Hi all,
this so far has got me stumped, I'm just getting round to sorting out my new homeserver which is running Ubuntu 10.10 and I'm hitting a brick wall. Under Ubuntu the files in the www-data folder need to have permissions and users set to www-data else all sort of strange things happen, and I need an ftp server that will automatically do that for my user when I log in. Which one do you recommend or how do I go about it? Googled and failed to get a really good asnwer on this...

Cheers!

3dcandy · 1 Mar 2011 at 15:01

Cheers...I've tried and failed to set the owner as www-data. Only way so far, is to chown -r manually....

I think I'm missing something somewhere...

3dcandy · 1 Mar 2011 at 21:03

See now I'm even more confused...lol

3dcandy · 1 Mar 2011 at 21:38

So, I'd set up the ftp server to place the files in public_html, how do I make that per user?

I've never really delved into ubuntu this much as it's just a homeserver, but I'm determined to get it sorted :-)

3dcandy · 1 Mar 2011 at 23:40

yeah, I think that's what I'm after, although there will only ever be one user....

3dcandy · 3 Mar 2011 at 16:59

it's erm...ok! It's a private dev server for my wordpress work mainly....

I've spent the last few weeks on a project for a christian conference which has to work on ie 5.5 so I can show you the link but be amazed by the basicness of it!

www.tarsusfellowship.co.uk