I found this on a site, might help, try to compare it to your own config file:
# This is a basic ProFTPD configuration file (rename it to
# 'proftpd.conf' for actual use. It establishes a single server
# and a single anonymous login. It assumes that you have a user/group
# "nobody" and "ftp" for normal operation and anon.
ServerName "ProFTPD Default Installation"
ServerType standalone
DefaultServer on
# Port 21 is the standard FTP port.
Port 21
# Umask 022 is a good standard umask to prevent new dirs and files
# from being group and world writable.
Umask 022
# To prevent DoS attacks, set the maximum number of child processes
# to 30. If you need to allow more than 30 concurrent connections
# at once, simply increase this value. Note that this ONLY works
# in standalone mode, in inetd mode you should use an inetd server
# that allows you to limit maximum number of processes per service
# (such as xinetd)
MaxInstances 30
# Set the user and group that the server normally runs at.
User nobody
Group nogroup
# Normally, we want files to be overwriteable.
<Directory /*>
AllowOverwrite on
</Directory>
# A basic anonymous configuration, no upload directories.
<Anonymous ~ftp>
User ftp
Group ftp
# We want clients to be able to login with "anonymous" as well as "ftp"
UserAlias anonymous ftp
# Limit the maximum number of anonymous logins
MaxClients 10
# We want 'welcome.msg' displayed at login, and '.message' displayed
# in each newly chdired directory.
DisplayLogin welcome.msg
DisplayFirstChdir .message
# Limit WRITE everywhere in the anonymous chroot
<Limit WRITE>
DenyAll
</Limit>
</Anonymous>
First thing we are going to do is configure the server for our new site so we need to change the line with:
ServerName "ProFTPD Default Installation"
to whatever you want displayed as the server name, this is what is displayed as people login to your site. For this example I am going to use Red Hat Software. So it now looks like:
ServerName "Red Hat Software FTP server"
Next we want to look at the ServerType, you'll need to decide if you want this to run all the time(i.e. Like, sendmail, named etc) or as an inetd daemon, which means the server will start and stop when connections come and go. I prefer to run it from inetd, so I change the entry to look like:
ServerType inetd
Note: If you run this from inetd you must edit /etc/inetd.conf to have an entry like:
ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/proftpd proftpd
For a standalone you don't need to worry about this. You don't have to change anything for the Port or Umask options unless you want to do so. I leave the User as nobody, and change the group to nobody. So those lines look like:
User nobody
Group nobody
Now you'll need to decide about the files, I don't like having files overwriteable, so I change this line to:
<Directory /*>
AllowOverwrite off
</Directory>
