> I have a new development server built to replace a Windows IIS server. I > have a few users who update the web server over ftp through some > developer application. On Windows I ran a small ftp server and they > would do their updates. On the new server I have vsftpd running. What is > the proper way to give them access to upload and overwrite files > to /var/www? > > All the stuff (google and howtos) I'm finding on vsftpd is dealing with > users getting to their home directories rather than another place in the > file structure. > > Should I look at a different ftp server? wu-ftpd or proftpd? Still have > the file rights issue I think. > > Other suggestions? > > Thanks, > James Probably not the answer you are looking for, but I *never* put any production web pages into /var/www. Instead, I set up virtual hosts and point them to /home/user/public_html or something like that. The reason is, I can set up as many virtual hosts as I want and I never have to get funky with permissions. Let's say I have web sites foo.com, bar.com and baz.com. I would create three users called foo, bar and baz. Their home directories are created automagically, all I need to do is do chmod o+x /home/foo /home/bar /home/baz. When the webmaster logs in, they do everything through ~/public_html, which they have full access to. If there are multiple webmasters, they can either all log in as foo or whatever, or you can set all their home directories to /home/whatever. Look at the example virtual host in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf for how to do this. Thomas
