I am running a Centos VPS for development purposes.

I have setup vsftpd on the server so that the root user can ftp in externally (other machines/IP's)

Using FileZilla on a windows machine, i can FTP into the server fine using the root account.

However when using an application that uses Curl to create a connection to the server, the files are being uploaded to the wrong directory.


For example the files should be getting uploaded to: var/www/html/public/myfolder

however when the application uploads files, the files get saved in: root/var/www/html/public/myfolder

I have checked logs and the application is definitely creating a connection to the right folder (var/www/html/public/myfolder)

Is there a reason why it would be saving it to root/var/www/html/public/myfolder instead?

Usually, the home directory of root is /root. If you log on as root and copy a file to var/www/html/public/myfolder, it ends up in /root/var/www/html/public/myfolder.

Are we able to do change directory over ftp?

n/m. No caffeine reply.

without the leading / in var/www/html/public/myfolder it is going exactly where it should under the circumstance.

Thanks guys, changing the home directory for root to var/www/html/public/myfolder solved it.

OMG. That is not a fix.

I can't imagine that you can change a home directory to a relative path.

I still wonder; you say:
var/www/html/public/myfolder relative to which directory?

I did try it both ways. Same result.

Then fix the application!

It is just painful to watch someone making remote connections using root account. When they learn root is local admin account only.