The Dreaded /var/www/ access issue
 

At the moment I am very frustrated opening about 14 hours all over the Internet on this problem. Answers either are confusing, not relevant or linked to equally confusing thread.

Simply put I want my Filezilla on one machine to be able upload to /var/www/ on another machine.

Can someone please tell me in simple steps what I have to do to achieve this?

Thanks

Robert...

Hi

Can i know what issue ur facing out while transfering the file /var/www/* to destination folder through filezilla.whether you have problem in uploading the content to destination means paste out the error you getting out during uploading through filezilla.
Are else u required the method of connecting filezilla.

Command: STOR DSCF0925.jpg
Response: 550 Permission denied.
Error: Critical file transfer error
Status: Disconnected from server

This is the relevant message from the log

Hi

#ls -al /var/www/* -check out the permission of file inside /var/www/*

To be one the safe side I have set the default directory to me home /home/robert/public_html/ permissions 777

still will not accept an upload. I am wondering if the group need to be changed or added to for FTP can upload.

I am really surprised I cannot find any answers anywhere but someone must have worked it out.

Robert...

After about 18 hours I fixed it. The problem was in the vsftp.conf this line was commented out by default.
#
# Uncomment this to enable any form of FTP write command.
write_enable=YES
#

Of all the reading I have done all over the internet nothing pointed to this. The instructions were simple anonymous or authenticated and that is set up during installation.

Thanks
Everyone.