i have installed Proftpd server on my system and have been abel to login to the server and view all the directorys but i cannot wright to /var/www/ every time i try i get the 550 error message. i have no experance with permissons so who ever helps me is going to have to spell it out if you know what i mean. thanks for you time and help

550 is "permission denied" which would mean you have no write permissions to the directory.

What usually happens is that FTP runs under an unprivileged username on a system, so that the system won't be compromised even if the FTPd is compromised. The FTPd username (usually 'FTP') shouldn't have write access to ANY directories - only read permissions.

Add another user to the system specifically for FTP uploads. This user should have minimal permissions, not even telnet/SSH login, apart from write access and ownership of the /var/www directory.

Hey thanks for the help but i am a here so could you give the the commands i need to run? or an example Thanks