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Configure FTP on Ubuntu

Category: VPS Setup

Set up FTP—File Transfer Protocol—on an Ubuntu VPS with vsftpd—install with

apt update && apt install vsftpd

edit /etc/vsftpd conf with

nano /etc/vsftpd.conf

: anonymous_enable=NO local_enable=YES write_enable=YES Restart with

systemctl restart vsftpd

open ports with

ufw allow 20 && ufw allow 21

Add a user with

adduser ftpuser

(password: FtpUbunt!) test with

ftp ip

—expect login prompt On DigitalOcean secure with SSL (ssl_enable=YES)—verify with

netstat -tulnp | grep 21

This ensures file uptime—pair with Fail2ban for brute-force protection on port 21