Fedora Linux

? The MediaWiki web page: http://www.mediawiki.org

? The files in /usr/share/doc/mediawiki*/docs

? The Wikipedia Cheatsheet, which describes the Wikitext format on a reference card: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/05/Cheatsheet-en.pdf

7.11. Configuring an FTP Server

File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a long-established Internet protocol for downloading files. In Fedora, you can use the Very Safe FTP program, vsftp , to serve data via FTP.

7.11.1. How Do I Do That?

To serve content via FTP, just install the vsftpd package and place the content that you wish to make publicly available in the /var/ftp directory.  

If you are using a firewall, you will need to open the FTP ports in the firewall

To view the contents of /var/ftp with a browser, go to ftp://<hostname>/ . To access files in a home directory, use the URL ftp://<user>@<hostname>/ (the browser will ask for your password) or ftp://<user>:<password>@<hostname>/ .

To access the contents of /var/ftp using a command-line FTP client program, log in as anonymous and use your email address as your password:

$ ftp
ftp> open ftp.fedorabook.com
Connected to 172.16.97.100.
220 (vsFTPd 2.0.4)
530 Please login with USER and PASS.
530 Please login with USER and PASS.
KERBEROS_V4 rejected as an authentication type
Name (ftp.fedorabook.com:chris):
 anonymous
Password:
 [email protected]
230 Login successful.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp> ls
227 Entering Passive Mode (172,16,97,100,237,192)
150 Here comes the directory listing.
drwxr-xr-x 2 0 0 4096 Mar 09 16:41 fedora-core-5
drwxr-xr-x 2 0 0 4096 Mar 09 16:41 fedora-core-6
drwxr-xr-x 2 0 0 4096 Mar 09 16:41 fedora-linux
drwxr-xr-x 2 0 0 4096 Mar 09 16:42 images
drwxr-xr-x 2 0 0 4096 Mar 09 04:46 pub
drwxr-xr-x 2 0 0 4096 Mar 09 16:41 rawhide
226 Directory send OK.
ftp> cd images
250-This directory contains images for the book 'Fedora Linux'.
250-
250 Directory successfully changed.
ftp> ls *http*
227 Entering Passive Mode (172,16,97,100,240,225)
150 Here comes the directory listing.
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 49931 Mar 09 16:44 fen-chapter07-system-config-httpd-tab2.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 27119 Mar 09 16:44 fen-chapter07-system-config-httpd.png
226 Directory send OK.
ftp> get fen-chapter07-system-config-httpd- tab2.png
local: fen-chapter07-system-config-httpd-tab2.png remote: fen-chapter07-system-config-httpd- tab2.png
227 Entering Passive Mode (172,16,97,100,214,160)
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for fen-chapter07-system-config-httpd-tab2.png (49931 bytes).
226 File send OK.
49931 bytes received in 0.017 seconds (2.9e+03 Kbytes/s)
ftp> quit
221 Goodbye.

To access a home directory using an FTP client, enter the user ID and password of the Fedora account.

vsftpd is configured using the files in /etc/vsftpd . The main configuration file is /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf and permits all local users (except for system users such as root , bin , and so forth) to have read/write access to their home directories, and all anonymous users to have read-only access to /var/ftp .

These are the most commonly changed configuration entries, along with the default values (as set in the Fedora default configuration file or in the program's internal defaults):

anonymous_enable= YES

Enables anonymous login. Change the value to NO to disable access to /var/ftp .

write_enable= YES

Permits file uploads.

anon_upload_enable= NO and anon_mkdir_write_enable= NO

Permits anonymous users to upload files and create directories. write_enable=YES must also be present and at least one of the directories in /var/ftp must be writable in order for this to work.