Configuring a FTP Server on Enterprise Linux
September 26th, 2011
FTP is the most commonly used for transferring of the files between the servers and computer and there are many FTP clients like filezilla which can be used to transfer file via FTP between various computers no matter which operating system is being used on it.
You might want to go through my previous post on Overview of FTP on Enterprise Linux convering all the basic details which will be used in configuring an FTP in this post.
Ensure that FTP is allowed through the firewall else SELinux is off and iptables are off. Start with installing the FTP package “vsftpd” using YUM. For creating a Yum in Enterprise Linux you may want to go through this post. You need to have root access in to configure an FTP Server.
#yum install vsftpd
