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Old 02-24-2011, 10:02 PM   #1
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Hello all fellows,

I have a folder called server1 in /var/www/html/server1. In server1 folder there are lots of web server scripts folders, subfolders and files. There is a user called test, who does FTP works. When this user tries to connect via FTP using Filzilla client, it gets connected but when he tries to upload files to that directory or download files from that directory, he gets "FTP Critical file transfer error" message. I think he has permission problem. My questions are; 1- Does the test user have to be the owner of the server1 folder? How can permission be set to the server1 directory for this test user so that he would be able to upload files and folders, download files and folders and delete and create files and folders from the Terminal Command? It is hard to go to each folders and assign permission because there are over more than 300 folders in the server1 folder. Thank you again for your feedback.
 
Old 02-25-2011, 03:17 PM   #2
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As far as being the same user, it would strictly depend on the permissions. For the user called "test" to upload to it, you would need write permissions for the directory. It would also need to be configured within the FTP configuration on the server to allow write access, depending on what is being used, etc. To change permissions, you will need to chmod the directory. As far as changing permissions on every file and directory within the directory being shared via FTP, you can use chmod -R to recursively chmod every file and directory.
 
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I found the solution myself:

chown -R test /var/www/html/server1
chmod -R +rw /var/www/html/server1
 
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Awesome, glad to hear I helped.

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