ProFTPD name-based vhosts: how?

[Shawn Coomey]

Done just that... an it works great. Thanks a ton for the tip, Steve!

Shawn




On Sunday, August 11, 2002, at 03:19 PM, Steve McGrane wrote:

> The FTP protocol doesn't support "name based" shared FTP hosting as the 
> host
> name in question isn't passed to the ftp server.  On a Linux box this is
> easy to get around, esp. with ProFTPd.
>
> You'll need to have at least one user per domain, and make sure that 
> each
> domain is in its own directory tree (eg /home/domain/*)
>
> Make the user of this domains home directory default to that domains
> directory tree in /etc/passwd.
>
> Edit the ProFTPd server's config file by modifying/adding the following
> lines:
>
>
> #ServerName shown in the FTP login banner:
>
> ServerName     "Something Generic"
>
> # First Param is the directory to "jail" users into,
> # this appears as "/" in there FTP client, and they cannot
> # CD higher than this.
> # Second Param is the group name/username of users that
> # this rule applies to.  Prepend a "!" to all users/groups
> # full access
>
> DefaultRoot    ~ users, !wheel, !steve
>
> - Steve
> MAC Friendly Hosting
> http://www.globaltap.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: yellowdog-general-admin@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> [mailto:yellowdog-general-admin@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com]On Behalf
> Of Shawn Coomey
> Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2002 3:16 PM
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Subject: ProFTPD name-based vhosts: how?
>
>
> Hi folks!
>
> I have a few domains that point to my YDL 2.2 box. I'd like to be able
> to run a virtual ftp server for each (i.e. ftp.domainname1.com,
> ftp.domainname2.com, etc). It would have to be name-based as I have 1 IP
> address.
>
> Is this possible? I know there are limitations to the FTP protocol when
> it comes to this stuff.
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> Shawn
>
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