Category: Proftpd

ftp Proftpd error

July 10, 2014 The Geek Decoder No Comments Plesk, Proftpd

Error when ftp to a domain

DS28220.domain.com proftpd[16643]: error: no valid servers configured
DS28220.domain.com proftpd[16643]: Fatal: error processing configuration file ‘/etc/proftpd.conf’

Edit the /etc hosts file and put the IP and the name in it:


Nano /etc/hosts
DS28220.domain.com 129.33.44.55

Restart xinetd

service xinetd restart

FTP error – ECONNREFUSED – Connection refused by server-Proftp

June 28, 2014 The Geek Decoder No Comments Proftpd

When connecting to the server via ftp and you are sure about the credentials and the firewall rules and iptables. Check DNS and the proftpd.conf file:

# dig domain.com
domain.com.       21599   IN      A       216.xx.xx.xx



# nano /etc/proftpd.conf
Port                            21
MasqueradeAddress       216.xx.xx.xx
PassivePorts                    60000 65000

Check the MasqueradeAddress feature and see if matched your IP for the domain you are connecting to.

Also – if behind a firewall…

Create a VirtualHost for 216.xx.xx.xx with the following configuration:


<VirtualHost 192.168.0.5>
ServerName "ProFTPD"
MasqueradeAddress 216.xx.xx.xx
PassivePorts 60000 65000
</VirtualHost>

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.