Hi there. I've been setting up a FTP server with pure-ftpd. Everything is going ahead. I have tested the ftp with filezilla and it works perfectly. After this, I wanted to access my ftp files through the web. Because of that, I've installed apache web server and published the ftp files directory by creating a symbolic link in /var/www pointing to the ftp directory. Up to this point I have no problems at all. I'm able to download files from my server using any web browser. The fact is that, during this process, I realized that I'm not using ftp anymore. I mean, if someone uses the web to download files from my "public ftp server" he is using apache, not pure-ftpd. Is there any way to use ftp server with http without dropping ftp capabilities? Please let me know If I'm not accurate enough to describe this issue.
Thanks in advance.

Hi,

You can use a browser to download files from ftp servers. Just use ftp://ftp.server.com in the browser address bar
And of course you don't need the symlink in apache docroot if you don't like to give web access to your files.

Regards

If you want people to download files from your FTP server using pure-ftp, you need to enable anonymous login (at least, if you want everyone to be able to access your files). They will, like bathory mentions, require to declare the use of the ftp protocol rather than the http protocol (which will, OC, never work with an ftp daemon). To make this easier, you can make a link in your apache webpage to ftp://whateveryourdomainmaybe and it will immediately take them there. You can choose whether you want anonymous logged in users to be able to upload files, but that may not be advisable.

Bathory, It's very clear what you've mentioned. I use ftp://myPublicIP:PortName to access through the web and the result was the expected. Thanks for that.
Morfanaion, I want to link ftp://myPublicIP:PortName to my current domain, say, mydomain.com (this domain is currently pointing to the ftp directory published by apache).
I don't knwow how to accomplish this.
I created a symLink in /var/www like
But It seems that it is wrong.

Hi,

If you want to give users the ability to connect to your ftp server from apache, you can use a Redirect:
This way when a user visits http://myPublicIP/ftp it will be automatically redirected to the ftp server.

Regards

Bathory, you´re right. I used a Redirect in my httpd.conf and the ftp in now accesible through apache.
Thanks to you and morfanaion for your help.

Regards