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Introduction

1Panel uses Pure-FTPd as the FTP server. Pure-FTPd is a free (BSD), secure, production-quality and standard-conformant FTP server. It doesn’t provide useless bells and whistles, but focuses on efficiency and ease of use. It provides simple answers to common needs, plus unique useful features for personal users as well as hosting providers.

Installing Pure-FTPd

  1. Install the EPEL repository 
    yum install -y epel-release
  2. Install Pure-FTPd 
    yum -y install pure-ftpd
  3. Configure Pure-FTPd 
    # The default configuration is located at /etc/pure-ftpd/pure-ftpd.conf. Modify the following parameters in the configuration file:
## Specify the path for the PureDB user database file
PureDB /etc/pure-ftpd/pureftpd.pdb
## Enable logging
VerboseLog yes
## Disable anonymous login
NoAnonymous yes
## Enable and adjust the passive port range as needed
PassivePortRange 39000 40000
  4. Start the Pure-FTPd service 
    systemctl start pure-ftpd.service
  5. Enable Pure-FTPd to start at boot 
    systemctl enable pure-ftpd.service
  6. Check the status of the Pure-FTPd service 
    systemctl status pure-ftpd.service
  1. Install Pure-FTPd 
    sudo apt-get install pure-ftpd
  2. Configure Pure-FTPd 
    ## Specify the path for the PureDB user database file
echo '/etc/pure-ftpd/pureftpd.pdb' > /etc/pure-ftpd/conf/PureDB
## Enable logging
echo 'yes' > /etc/pure-ftpd/conf/VerboseLog
## Disable anonymous login
echo 'yes' > /etc/pure-ftpd/conf/NoAnonymous
## Enable and adjust the passive port range as needed
echo '39000 40000' > /etc/pure-ftpd/conf/PassivePortRange
  3. Create a symbolic link for the database 
    ln -s /etc/pure-ftpd/conf/PureDB /etc/pure-ftpd/auth/50puredb
  4. Start the Pure-FTPd service 
    systemctl start pure-ftpd.service
  5. Enable Pure-FTPd to start at boot 
    systemctl enable pure-ftpd.service
  6. Check the status of the Pure-FTPd service 
    systemctl status pure-ftpd.service