Pure-FTPd is a free (BSD), secure, production-quality and standard-conformant FTP server. It doesn’t provide useless bells and whistles, but focuses on efficiency and ease of use. It provides simple answers to common needs, plus unique useful features for personal users as well as hosting providers. This article teaches you how to install free ftp server Pure-FTPd on CentOS 6 and how to configure and use it so you can access your server via ftp connection using your favorite ftp client (e.g:FileZilla).
In this tutorial we will show you how to install and configuration of Pure-FTPd on your CentOS server.
Install Pure-FTPd on CentOS
Step 1. First add EPEL yum repository your system.
CentOS 6:
rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
CentOS 7:
rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/e/epel-release-7-1.noarch.rpm
Step 2. Installing Pure-FTPd on CentOS
yum install pure-ftpd -y
Step 3. Configuring Pure-FTPd server.
Type the following command to edit Pure-FTPd configuration file.
nano /etc/pure-ftpd/pure-ftpd.conf
Make sure you have this options:
# If you want simple Unix (/etc/passwd) authentication, uncomment this UnixAuthentication yes
ChrootEveryone yes NoAnonymous yes # PureDB user database (see README.Virtual-Users) PureDB /etc/pure-ftpd/pureftpd.pdb # Automatically create home directories if they are missing CreateHomeDir yes
Finally, save Pure-FTPD user database.
pure-pw mkdb
Add a virtual user.
pure-pw useradd ftpuser -u user -g group -d /var/www/yourdomain.com/public_html
Step 4. Start service and enable the service to start on boot.
service pure-ftpd start chkconfig pure-ftpd on
Congratulation’s! You have successfully installed Pure-FTPd. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing Pure-FTPd secure FTP server on CentOS system. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you to check the official Pure-FTPd web site.