Installing FTP ProFTPD Server on RHEL/CentOS
This will guide you on how you
can install and use ProFTPD Server on CentOS/RHEL Linux distributions for a simple file
transfer from your local system accounts to remote systems.
Step 1:
Install Proftpd Server
1. Official RHEL/CentOS 7 repositories doesn’t provide any binary
package for ProFTPD Server, so you need to add extra package repositories on
your system provided by EPEL 7 Repo, using the following command.
# rpm -Uvh http://ftp.astral.ro/mirrors/fedora/pub/epel/beta/7/x86_64/epel-release-7-0.2.noarch.rpm
2. Before you start installing ProFTPD Server, edit your machine
hosts file, change it accordingly to your system FQDN and test the configurations to reflect
your system domain naming.
# nano /etc/hosts
Here add your system FQDN on
127.0.0.1 localhost line like in the following example.
127.0.0.1 server.centos.lan localhost localhost.localdomain
Then edit /etc/hostname file to match the same system FQDN
entry like in the screenshots below.
# nano /etc/hostname
3. After you have edited the host files, test your local DNS
resolution using the following commands.
# hostname
# hostname -f ## For FQDN
# hostname -s ## For short name
4. Now it’s time to install ProFTPD Server on your system and some
required ftp utilities that we will be using later by issuing following
command.
# yum install proftpd proftpd-utils
5. After the server is installed, start and manage Proftpd daemon
by issuing the following commands.
# systemctl start proftpd
# systemctl status proftpd
# systemctl stop proftpd
# systemctl restart proftpd
Step 2:
Add Firewall Rules and Access Files
6. Now, your ProDTPD Server runs and listen for connections, but
it’s not available for outside connections due to Firewall policy. To enable
outside connections make sure you add a rule which opens port 21, using firewall-cmd system utility.
# firewall-cmd –add-service=ftp ## On fly rule
# firewall-cmd –add-service=ftp --permanent ## Permanent rule
# systemctl restart firewalld.service
7. The most simple way to access your FTP server from remote
machines is by using a browser, redirecting to your server IP Address or domain
name using ftp protocol on URL.
ftp://domain.tld
OR
ftp://ipaddress
8. The default configuration on Proftpd Server uses valid system
local accounts credentials to login and access your account files which is your $HOME system path account, defined in/etc/passwd file.
9. To make ProFTPD Server automatically run after system reboot,
aka enable it system-wide, issue the following command.
# systemctl enable proftpd
That’s it! Now you can access and
manage your account files and folders using FTP protocol using whether a
browser or other more advanced programs, such as FileZilla, which is available on almost any
platforms, or WinSCP, an excellent File Transfer program that
runs on Windows based systems.
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