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josh
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Starting out on fedora 2

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Just bought my first VPS, it is running redhat fedora core 2 and has webmin panel installed.
What I want to do is set up a website and point a test domain at it. I thought my first step should probably be enable ftp so I created the wu-ftp config file using the example off their site

http://www.wu-ftpd.org/examples/ftpaccess

Now in my webmin panel it says:

The FTP server /usr/sbin/in.ftpd does not appear to be WU-FTPd. Maybe you are using an older FTPd provided with your operating system, or your FTP Server module configuration is in correct. The output from the FTP server was :

What should I do to get ftp working, when i login as root it says my server does not support ssl, and i say login anyways and it says incorrect and disconnects me.

After I get ftp working what should be the next step to get this thing up and running?

I am very new to linux to please go easy on me :)
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Core 2?! damn, that's oooooold. 8O

Sorry, not help, just surprised at how far back you're using..
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Post by Chris Corbyn »

feyd wrote:Core 2?! damn, that's oooooold. 8O
But easyish for n00bs.

Do you have your FTPd for wu-ftp installed and running? I've never used wu-ftp, I use ProFTPd.

EDIT | How did you install wu-ftp ?
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Yeah I realize core 2 is old, I can upgrade it later but I want to learn to get this thing running before I dive in that deep. I got proFTPD running through the webmin panel now. In the conf file I enabled login as root (is that bad?), but I still can't ftp to the server (using IP).

Connecting to ***.***.***.***:21
Connected to ***.***.***.***:21, Waiting for Server Response
220 ProFTPD 1.2.10rc3 Server (ProFTPD Default Installation) [host.*****.com]
Host type (1): Automatic detect
AUTH SSL
500 AUTH not understood
USER ftp
331 Password required for root.
PASS (hidden)
530 Login incorrect.

As you can see by the line in red it's not accepting SSL either.

EDIT| What I'm trying to do is point my test domain to the server, create /home/testdomain/ and get a hello world for php. Yeah I could have easily gone for cpanel but the point is to learn to do this manually
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Post by Chris Corbyn »

Install "openssl"... it looks as though you don't have ssl installed.

You may need to recompile your FTPd once you have done that :D
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I untar'd openssl, then did this:

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./config
make
make test
make install
Then I untar'd proftpd and did this:

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./configure
make
When I try to ftp in I get the same error now.
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Post by Chris Corbyn »

I'd probably use the package manager (rpm ?) to install ssh but anyway.

Looks like you didn't reinstall proftpd you just compiled it.

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./configure
make clean
make
make install
If SSH is working correctly it shouldn;t give you errors about SSH authentication.
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Post by josh »

I typed exactly what you said, and reconfigured proftpd..

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AUTH SSL
500 AUTH not understood
-I noticed in proftpd.conf it is running under nobody, nobody.. should that be or should I change that?
-How do I create a user that has a /home/ direcotry and give him ftp
-I installed openssl exactly as the document INSTALL (that came with it) said, under 'quick start'
-Since its saying AUTH not understood does that mean I did wrong when installing openssl, or is proftpd just not configured to use it?

uh im so frustrated right now I have no idea what I'm doing, the only reason I don't give up is because I remember this was what it was like when I was first learning PHP :-)

I really appreciated your help and if anyone would be willing to talk me through this on instant messanger that would be great.
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