Pure-ftpd Server + Mysql + Web Manager

[XplOzIOn]

This is my first tutorial

Pure-ftpd XplOzIve Tutorial v1 by xplozion

Before we start installing this lets make sure we have the next packages installed: copy & paste in terminal

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y upgrade
sudo apt-get -y install apache2 php5 libapache2-mod-php5 mysql-server libapache2-mod-auth-mysql libapache2-mod-auth-mysql php5-mysql build-essential phpmyadmin libmysqlclient15off openssl libssl-dev
sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient15-dev

Setting up mysql password:

mysqladmin -u root password YourPasswordHere

Now logged as the user you want to run the server go to its home and download the packages we need. Lets start with pure-ftpd

wget ftp://ftp.pureftpd.org/pub/pure-ftpd/releases/pure-ftpd-1.0.21.tar.gz

After downloading lets untar it (Note that im using latest release when this tutorial was made)

tar -xvvzf pure-ftpd-1.0.21.tar.gz

With the folder there lets change its name

mv pure-ftpd-1.0.21/ pure-ftpd
now go into the folder 'cd pure-ftp/'

Time to configure and compile

./configure --with-everything --with-paranoidmsg --with-virtualchroot --with-tls --with-largefile --with-mysql
make
make install

If theres a error here if because some missed packages, just install it via 'sudo apt-get -y install package name'

Now its time to download our Web manager (Machiel's User manager for PureFTPd)

cd ..
wget http://machiel.generaal.net/files/pureftpd/ftp_v2.1.tar.gz
tar -xvvzf pureftpd/ftp_v2.1.tar.gz

Once we have the it, we need move our new 'ftp' folder to wwwroot path (Note this path changes if your default www root folder is different)

mv ftp/ /var/www/
sudo chown www-data /var/www/ftp -R

Now we need to configure our new pure-ftpd web manager and for that we go to http://localhost/ftp/install.php

This web based pure-ftpd manager its pretty simple to follow and i think you wont be having any problems
Now remember to copy and paste the file for pureftpd-mysql.conf (The content of this file is given by the manager)

Options for pure-ftpd server:
There are many ways and differents styles and settings. You can check all the options here http://jeanmatthieu.free.fr/pureftpd...pure-ftpd.html

Starting our pure-ftpd server
Now will all done lets start our pure-ftpd server:

pure-ftpd -l mysql:/home/myuser/pure-ftpd/pureftpd-mysql.conf &

This way it will run in the backgroud. Have fun


******* IMPROVEMENTS *******
This are things that id like to add to this tutorial but since i am not a linux expert cant really tell how to do it:

1. Stating pure-ftpd when linux starts.
2. Web stats for FTP transfer (Adding it to this tutorial in a few).


******* KNOW ISSUES *******

1. For some reason it wont let me login using SSL. But TLS does work.
2. Using the FXP protocol gives me real slow speed(100kb/s)

[XplOzIOn]

Ill redo this tutorial, with latest test and some plus..

Any Comments anyone?

[crosswing]

Checking connection to MySQL server Failed why it said like that ? help

[XplOzIOn]

There could be several reason for this. I mave seen that when you change the password and DB sometimes it gives you an error. I tend to leave it defaults and make phpmyadmin only accesible from local network.

So try using defaults for pure DB