Install Pure-FTPd from source

To instal pureftpd from source, go to

http://download.pureftpd.org/pub/pure-ftpd/releases/

find latest version download link.

Download and Install

At the time of this post, latest version is 1.0.49, always use latest version when you are installing.

cd /usr/local/src
wget https://download.pureftpd.org/pub/pure-ftpd/releases/pure-ftpd-1.0.49.tar.gz
tar -zxvf pure-ftpd-1.0.49.tar.gz
cd pure-ftpd-1.0.*
./configure --with-puredb
make
make check
make install

The software is now installed in /usr/local/sbin/pure-ftpd

To start the server, just run the following command

/usr/local/sbin/pure-ftpd

Common Errors during install

If you get error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH, install gcc with

yum install gcc -y

Firewall

FTP need following ports open in firewall.

TCP 21
TCP 30000-50000

Enable MySQL support

If you need to enable MySQL support in pure-ftpd, then run configure command with following option.

./configure --with-mysql --with-uploadscript --with-extauth

Configuration Files

During installation, configuration file get copied to

/etc/pure-ftpd.conf

You can edit it as required.

To start pure-ftpd with configuration file, run

/usr/local/sbin/pure-ftpd /etc/pure-ftpd.conf

To enable system users login, set UnixAuthentication to yes.

UnixAuthentication            yes
MinUID                      100

MinUID specify lowest id of users that is allowed to login to user. You can uncomment it if you need user root or any other system users to login. But this maybe insecure as FTP comminication is done with out encryption.

NAT

If you are behind NAT, you need to uncomment following settings. This is required for most cloud providers like Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure. To see if you have NAT, see if your Public IP is configured inside your server. You can list IP configured in your server with command ip a

PassivePortRange             30000 50000
ForcePassiveIP               192.168.0.1

Replace 192.168.0.1 with your public IP. If you are using Amazon AWS, then it will be your Elastic IP address. If you don’t use Elastic IP, then it is your public IP.

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