Set up anonymous FTP for my new VPS?

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I am buying a VPS on Linode and have got most of my information correct on how to set things up unmanaged. One thing I wish to do on my server is serve files with FTP, such as through ftp://mysite.com/pub/foo.txt for a few reasons.

Do I need to install an FTP server, like vsftp and configure it to allow anonymous downloads? I am resourceful with these things but can not find the right first step in setting this up.

Thank you.

Answer

Which distribution (or even operating system) are you using? This answer assumes CentOS 5, but I’ll try to edit it if you let me know the correct one.

Install vsftpd:
yum install vsftpd

Edit /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf and ensure the following values are set (either change them or add them as necessary):
local_enable=NO
anonymous_enable=YES
anon_upload_enable=NO
anon_mkdir_write_enable=NO
anon_root=/document/root/to/mysite.com/pub/foo.txt

Restart vsftpd:
/etc/init.d/vsftpd restart

Test.

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