Why is my dir not showing in ftp session?

Question

I am new to linux so please have patience with me.

I set up my centos 6.3 server on a virtual machine, installed many things including httpd and vsftpd.

I changed the config to allow only users in the chroot_list and the other settings are as usually recommended on the net.

I created a user "adduser -d /var/www wwwftpuser" then did a passwd.

I am able to connect to this now using an ftp client on my virtual machine host. But... the directory is blank. I tried uploading a file to it but the directory on the linux machine does not see the new file.

My aim is to upload and amend files in /var/www using ftp.

Why is this so?

Try changing the folder permissions to 755. – gunwin Jan 20 '13 at 00:17 — gunwin, Jan 20 '13 at 00:17
Better answered in the UNIX and Linux SE – mdpc Jan 20 '13 at 06:52 — mdpc, Jan 20 '13 at 06:52

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 20 '13 at 19:10

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No thanks to the down voter, at least say why you down voted.

I found the answer eventually, there is something called SELinux that was blocking access to the chrooted directory.

So I did :

setsebool -P ftp_home_dir on

Which sorted the problem out, now I see the files. I am just testing so its ok for me but I do not recommend anyone does this if they do not know what it does.

answered Jan 20 '13 at 19:10

sprocket12

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For your convenience, if you're not running an environment which high security, you can just disable selinux entirely. – Grumpy Jan 20 '13 at 19:16
@Grumpy please could you tell me if it would be a good idea to disable SELinux if I fear a DDOS attack? – sprocket12 Jan 20 '13 at 19:20
DDoS has little relationship to selinux. – Grumpy Jan 21 '13 at 05:00

Why is my dir not showing in ftp session?

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