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The Basics - Anonymous FTP Services
Every account at pair Networks is eligible to serve files through
anonymous FTP as well as the Web. To request an anonymous FTP directory
for your account, please use Account
Control Center. There is no cost for adding this service to
your account. Please note that your domain name must use Dedicated IP
domain hosting to use Virtual FTP, which is needed for anonymous FTP
services. The steps to enable Virtual FTP are:
- Log into the Account Control Center
- Click "Domain Hosting Management"
- Click "Manage"
- Click on the domain name for which you want to set up Virtual FTP
- Click "Modify Virtual FTP Settings"
- Enter Virtual FTP setting information and click "Enable Virtual FTP"
A "public_ftp" link will be placed in your account's home directory once you enable Virtual FTP. You can use that to access your ftp directory (direct path: /usr/public_ftp/USERNAME). Replace "USERNAME" with your pair Networks USERNAME.
You can add anonymous FTP to any (or every)
domain name on your account. Those domain names, however, must use
Dedicated IP domain hosting. People will connect to
ftp.example.com using your domain name to reach your files.
Starting with your second domain name signed up for anonymous FTP, each
will be mapped to a subdirectory of the main FTP directory noted in the
first question. (e.g. if your second domain name was example.org,
it might be mapped to /usr/public_ftp/USERNAME/example.org).
Replace "USERNAME" with your pair Networks USERNAME.
If you would like people to be able to upload files to your FTP site,
create a subdirectory named "incoming" under your FTP directory, and set the subdirectory's file permissions to be "world-writable" (chmod 733) using a terminal window. The "incoming" directory has special
meaning to our FTP software (NcFTPd), and people will be able to upload
files into the "incoming" subdirectory.
The "incoming" directory will have "write-only" permissions, which means people will
not be able to download the files that have already been uploaded into it. Such permission settings are a security
precaution. A directory that can be both "written to" and "read
from" is an open invitation for software pirates to traffic software
through your site.
In your home directory, create a directory named "ftp_logs" (with no
quotes) -- for security reasons, you'll probably want to keep set the
directory permissions to
700 using the "chmod" command on a terminal window. Starting
with that night, you'll receive a report of your FTP traffic on a nightly
basis. The data is formatted in such a way that Web log analyzers such as
Analog or Webalizer may be used to
generate statistics.
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