Category: CLI

public_html directory not showing in ftp

June 12, 2014 The Geek Decoder No Comments CLI, cPanel, FTP, Plesk, Proftpd

A user could not show the public_html directory on a cpanel server. Run the following to see how many files are listed in the directory.

cd /home/username
ls|wc -l
10050

This folder has 10500 files. The settings for ftp do not allow a full directory listing. We removed the files that were not needed and ftp worked.

Also this is a setting in /etc/pure-ftpd.conf

nano /etc/pure-ftpd.conf
# 'ls' recursion limits. The first argument is the maximum number of
# files to be displayed. The second one is the max subdirectories depth

LimitRecursion 10000 8

To change this – change the line amount in the first number and restart ftp

LimitRecursion 11000 8
service pure-ftpd restart

To change the ftp maximum number of files on plesk.

nano /etc/proftpd.conf
ListOptions -a maxfiles 2000 maxdepth 3

Restart xinetd

 service xinetd restart

This configures the -a option by default, and limits the maximum files in the generated listing to 2000. If the client uses the -R option, proftpd will not recurse into directories more than 3 levels deep when generating the listing.

Change Ownership of Files and Folders

June 11, 2014 The Geek Decoder No Comments CLI, Plesk

To change the ownership of files and folders in a directory. For a plesk httpdocs directory that runs fastcgi. For apache – you will want to change this to apache:apache.

Change directory

cd /var/www/vhosts/domain.com/httpdocs

Find who owns the files and folders.


ls -la
[root@austin httpdocs]# ls -la
total 20
drwxr-xr-x  3 mungoadmin psacln 4096 Jun 11 14:16 .
drwxr-xr-x 22 mungoadmin psacln 4096 Jun 11 14:13 ..
drwxr-xr-x  2 root       root   4096 Jun 11 14:16 anotherdir
-rw-r--r--  1 root       root      6 Jun 11 14:14 test1.txt
-rw-r--r--  1 root       root     10 Jun 11 14:15 test2.php

You see that some files/directories are owned by root:root an some by mungoadmin:psacln. We will want to change this to be the ftp user in plesk – which is mungoadmin:psacln.

To change this run the following (Warning – make sure you are in the directory you want to change all the files/directories in):

[root@austin httpdocs]# chown -R mungoadmin:psacln *

Now – look at the changes

[root@austin test]# ls -la
total 20
drwxr-xr-x  3 mungoadmin psacln 4096 Jun 11 14:16 .
drwxr-xr-x 22 mungoadmin psacln 4096 Jun 11 14:13 ..
drwxr-xr-x  2 mungoadmin psacln 4096 Jun 11 14:17 anotherdir
-rw-r--r--  1 mungoadmin psacln    6 Jun 11 14:14 test1.txt
-rw-r--r--  1 mungoadmin psacln   10 Jun 11 14:15 test2.php