Debian / Proftp 550 Permission denied

Question

I've recently installed proftp on my debian squeeze linode. It works so far but I'm facing several issues now.

In an FTP client such as FileZilla, I am able to access the server and download files without problems, but upload isn't prossible. Trying results in 550 test.txt: Permission denied.

I'm also trying to download/upload directly from NetBeans, but NetBeans reports a 550 permission denied message in both cases. See below the result when downloading a file.

Connection can be established successfully unless sub directories are specified in the settings.

220 ProFTPD 1.3.3a Server (Debian) [::ffff:178.79.184.96]
USER userftp
331 Password required for userftp
PASS ******
230 User userftp logged in
TYPE I
200 Type set to I
CWD /site.co.uk/public_html
550 /site.co.uk/public_html: No such file or directory
CWD /
250 CWD command successful
CWD site.co.uk
550 site.co.uk: No such file or directory
MKD site.co.uk
550 gwerks.vegetav.co.uk: Permission denied
QUIT
221 Goodbye.

The following is appended to the proftp.conf file:

#VALID LOGINS
<Limit LOGIN>
AllowUser userftp
DenyALL
</Limit>

<Directory /srv/www/>
Umask 022 022
AllowOverwrite on
        <Limit MKD STOR DELE XMKD RNEF RNTO RMD XRMD CWD>
        AllowAll
        </Limit>
</Directory>

Answer 1

I have just found a solution to this problem

Find the following line in /etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf

Set off to disable IPv6 support which is annoying on IPv4 only boxes. UseIPv6 on

Switch this to 'off'

Restart the server

Answer 2

best way for this problem is :

chown -R myftpUser:apache /srv/www/

myftpUser : your ftp user or any user that you like use it

apache : apache

apache is default user group, if it's installed in Linux automatically created by apache

it is very important that you don't use just myftpUser:myftpUserGroup , because if you use this method server will give you HTTP Error 500

Answer 3

chown -R (FTPUSER) /(path)/(to_your_ftp)/

Or in my case:

chown -R wordpress /home/wordpress/public_html