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ChapterÂ 24.Â Running an FTP Server

In this chapter, we go through the steps that are necessary to set up your own FTP server. In particular, we concentrate on the ProFTPD server, a very stable, open source implementation of an FTP server with many features.

Introduction

ProFTPD is a highly configurable, GPL-licensed FTP server. It strives to be the FTP server equivalent of the Apache web server. It might not be the leanest and meanest FTP server out there, but it is certainly one of the most flexible ones. ProFTPD is used, for example, by SourceForge.

ProFTPD is available from http://www.proftpd.org.

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