cURLFTPFS only lists the mounted directory. Reading a file is forbidden, writing a file is forbidden, creating new files is forbidden

Question

I'm not sure this is the right place to ask this question, but when searching for curlftpfs in all sites on StackExchange, the majority of the returned results, lead to StackOverflow.

So, I have a server running Pure-FTPd with a virtual user named http, who is running under the system user www-data (Apache's user) and it's home folder is /var/www/. The Pure-FTPd is configured properly and the www-data user has all privileges over /var/www/ needed for reading, writing and executing. Everything works as expected when an http request is made against port 80 (ensuring proper execution), and reading, writing and creating new files and directories with FileZilla (remotely).

The problem comes when I try to mount the remote directory with curlftpfs in a local directory (inside my user's home folder). The command I'm using is as follows:

curlftpfs ftp://http:[email protected] ~/ftp

(Note: the http in ftp://http:passw0rd... is the username I'm using to connect and it works fine, I'm pretty sure the problem is not related to this.)

The content of the remote /var/www/ is listed properly, I can browse inside the subdirectories, but I cannot read a file, write into a file or create a new file or folder. What could I be doing wrong?

Answer 1

Maybe you need to specifically set the allow_other flag. Try

curlftpfs 192.168.0.100 ~/ftp -o allow_other,user=http:password