Windows Firewall) or active antivirus programs are not interfering with your connection or blocking the filezilla.exe application. Let’s set the folder above the document root as the home directory for ftpuser. Make sure your firewalls allow outbound traffic from the computer running the FileZilla client to TCP port 21 or 22 or another port you’re using on the file server. If you are not using multiple domains, we will assume you are using the default document root /var/In this scenario, we have to make /var/www/ the home directory for our user ftpuser. If you followed a previous guide here for setting up multiple domains, your document root may be located in somewhere like /var/ for your own domain). In many cases, you want to be able to upload files to the document root on the web server. If you just want to upload to a home folder, skip to Step 4.2. If you plan on using this FTP user account to upload files to a web server, continue to Step 4.1. For that reason, we have to set up some directories and permissions. Vsftpd uses chroot jails to restrict users to their home directories and requires that the home directory is not writable.

You now need to decide where this new FTP user is allowed to view and upload files.

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