Installation instructions for iFTPd

1. You do have a JVM installed, right?
   • Either make sure the $JAVA_HOME variable is set or edit the file conf/JAVA_HOME.
2. Check that conf/iftpd.conf is to your liking.

   • You might also want to force SSL encryption of the command and data channels, (see conf/ssl/ssl.conf) but that might lock out users with primitive clients.

     Here is a list of free FTP clients that work with both channels encrypted (that I know of)

     • lftp
     • Filezilla
     • KFTPgrabber
3. Make at least one user file in conf/users/.
4. Make at least one group in conf/groups/.

   Make sure that at least one of the groups has a root directory.

   "/stash/ftp/" r+ "/"

5. Start iFTPd.
   Linux users run: ./iftpd.sh start

Configuration details (optional)

How does the virtual file system work?

The VFS maps physical files/directories to virtual equivalents that the user then sees. This mapping is completely transparent.

The VFS can, for example, map the directory "/stash/music/" to "/mp3". The end user will se only /mp3/ and all files directory that exist in "/stash/music/" will exist in "/mp3". If you use the same virtual target for several rules, the physical targets will all be merged into the same virtual target.

VFS rules are defined in two places: primarily in the group file(s) and secondarily in the user's conf file.

Example of a VFS rule