How to start FTP server on Linux

How To Download And Install VSFTPD

Most Linux software products are available in a precompiled package format. Downloading and installing packages isn't hard.

When searching for the file, remember that the VSFTPD packages' filename usually starts with the word vsftpd followed by a version number, as in vsftpd-1.2.1-5.i386.rpm for Redhat/Fedora or vsftpd_2.0.4-0ubuntu4_i386.deb for Ubuntu.

You can search for rpm in http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/

How To Get VSFTPD Started

With Fedora, Redhat, Ubunbtu and Debian You can start, stop, or restart VSFTPD after booting by using these commands:

[root@bigboy tmp]# /etc/init.d/vsftpd start
[root@bigboy tmp]# /etc/init.d/vsftpd stop
[root@bigboy tmp]# /etc/init.d/vsftpd restart
With Redhat / Fedora you can configure VSFTPD to start at boot you can use the chkconfig command.

[root@bigboy tmp]# chkconfig vsftpd on
With Ubuntu / Debian the sysv-rc-conf command can be used like this:

root@u-bigboy:/tmp# sysv-rc-conf on

Note: In RedHat Linux version 8.0 and earlier, VSFTPD operation is controlled by the xinetd process. So to Start on Red hat Linux 9 you can type the command

root@u-bigboy:/tmp# service vsftpd start

This will start the server on the PC. To addusers you can give commands

root@u-bigboy:/tmp# useradd test
root@u-bigboy:/tmp# passwd test
Enter the password:test123
Confirm password : test123

So you can now logon with username: test and password: test123.

Test if server is runnnig or not

1) You can always test whether the VSFTPD process is running by using the netstat -a command which lists all the TCP and UDP ports on which the server is listening for traffic. This example shows the expected output.

[root@bigboy root]# netstat -a | grep ftp
tcp 0 0 *:ftp *:* LISTEN
[root@bigboy root]#
If VSFTPD wasn't running, there would be no output at all.

2) You can actually logon to ur server and verify like this

root@u-bigboy:/tmp# ftp localhost
>>> give username and password

>>> if it is successful ur server is running perfectly fine...


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