FTP server on EC2 Ami Linux instance

DevOps

People say that FTP is dead. But not everyone knows or can use SFTP, SSH whatever to update their website. Sometimes you just need something as simple as good old FTP server on your instance. Let’s do it.

yum install pure-ftpd
nano /etc/pure-ftpd/pure-ftpd.conf

We are going to use build in user management tools for our server. Using MySQL as a database is also super easy. Some changes are required in config file:

PureDB            /etc/pure-ftpd/pureftpd.pdb
PassivePortRange  30000 50000
ForcePassiveIP    public_ip

To add user into “virtual” database you have to use similar tool to regular pw command in Linux

pure-pw useradd slav -u caddy -d /var/www/html/
pure-pw mkdb

And run server:

/usr/sbin/pure-config.pl /etc/pure-ftpd/pure-ftpd.conf

Couple usefull tricks can be found here