I've been running pure-ftpd for around 4 months now without any problems, until around 24-48 hours ago file upload has been going a bit loopy.
When you upload a file the speed bounces considerably, and at times pauses on 0kbps until it then dies and fails the upload. 9/10 uploads I have tried have failed.
[R] Opening data connection IP: 74.86.20.181 PORT: 35283
[R] LIST -al
[R] 150 Accepted data connection
[R] 226-Options: -a -l
[R] 226 6 matches total
[R] List Complete: 374 bytes in 0.64 seconds (0.6 KB/s)
Transfer queue completed
1 File failed to transfer
[R] Connection lost: chacha
We have restarted pure-ftpd a number of times, but have had no luck.
Please could you try and upload a file (at least 10mb and please nothing dodgey) to this FTP account:
Is there a way to disable the temporary filename, for instance when I upload a file via ftp, the filename becomes .pureftp-24213421423. It returns back to the original filename when you abord the transfer or when it's completed.
I have cPanel running on a server which was working until it magically stopped allowing FTP logins via Pure-FTPD. It won't even allow Pure-FTPD to be started up. It gives the following error:
Starting pure-config.pl: Running: /usr/local/sbin/pure-ftpd -O clf:/var/log/xferlog --daemonize -A -c50 -B -C8 -D -E -fftp -H -I15 -lextauth :/var/run/ftpd.sock -L2000:8 -m4 -s -U133:022 -u100 -Oxferlog:/usr/local/apache/domlogs/ftpxferlog -k99 -Z -Y1 /usr/local/sbin/pure-ftpd: invalid option -- O 421 Unknown authentication method: extauth:/var/run/ftpd.sock [FAILED] I've tried upgrading cPanel, downgrading cPanel, forcing a reinstall, swapping to Pro-FTPD (doesn't allow login either) and back, but nothing seems to repair it.
Does anyone else have any ideas or experienced a similar issue?
i tried everything i know and reinstalled my vps more than 5 times for the last 24hrs but i'm out of luck. Pure-ftpd would not start what ever i do.
Also lxadmin installation gives me the following error:
Downloading Installappdata pure-ftpd: unrecognized service unlink: cannot unlink `/usr/bin/lxsuexec': No such file or directory unlink: cannot unlink `/usr/bin/lxexec': No such file or directory mv: cannot stat `/sbin/udevd': No such file or directory rm: cannot remove `/dev/pts/0': Operation not permitted
I've run a pure-ftpd-server privetley and haven't bothered to chroot the enviroment since I only used it myself when I needed files remotley. Now on request of my school and work buddies I've started hosting a website which they are to manage and through my ftp-server add / remove the site's different files.
I know how to start it with chrooted enviroment but everytime I reboot it, which I usually don't need to anyway, it starts unchrooted so I manually have to kill the ftp-daemon and start it with my customised parameters.
Is there a way to change the init.d/pure-ftpd-conf or something to start with my customised options? i.e with the chroot-option turned on.
I am just in the process of finish off setting up my first cPanel server but I am having the follow problems when connecting to FTP:
Response:220---------- Welcome to Pure-FTPd [TLS] ---------- Response:220-You are user number 1 of 50 allowed. Response:220-Local time is now 17:20. Server port: 21. Response:220-IPv6 connections are also welcome on this server. Response:220 You will be disconnected after 15 minutes of inactivity. Command:USER xxxx Response:331 User ehuk OK. Password required Command:PASS *********** Response:230-User ehuk has group access to: ehuk Response:230 OK. Current restricted directory is / Command:SYST Response:215 UNIX Type: L8 Command:FEAT Response:211-Extensions supported: Response: EPRT Response: IDLE Response: MDTM Response: SIZE Response: REST STREAM Response: MLST type*;size*;sizd*;modify*;UNIX.mode*;UNIX.uid*;UNIX.gid*;unique*; Response: MLSD Response: ESTP Response: PASV Response: EPSV Response: SPSV Response: ESTA Response: AUTH TLS Response: PBSZ Response: PROT Response:211 End. Status:Connected Status:Retrieving directory listing... Command:PWD Response:257 "/" is your current location Command:TYPE I Response:200 TYPE is now 8-bit binary Command:PASV Response:227 Entering Passive Mode (10,21,103,3,255,61) Status:Server sent passive reply with unroutable address. Using server address instead. Command:LIST Error:Connection timed out Error:Failed to retrieve directory listing
The server is behind a firewall, I can connect to the FTP via VPN but I cant connect via the remote IP, any ideas?
I know cPanel is designed for NAT but I have worked around this, the FTP is the only issue,
I have too many connection from 202.96.5.29 through pure-ftpd:
PHP Code:
Sep 3 00:27:24 server pure-ftpd: (?@202.96.5.29) [INFO] New connection from 202.96.5.29Sep 3 00:27:25 server pure-ftpd: (?@202.96.5.29) [WARNING] Authentication failed for user [oracle]Sep 3 00:27:29 server pure-ftpd: (?@202.96.5.29) [WARNING] Authentication failed for user [oracle]Sep 3 00:27:31 server pure-ftpd: (?@202.96.5.29) [WARNING] Authentication failed for user [Administrator]Sep 3 00:27:39 server pure-ftpd: (?@202.96.5.29) [WARNING] Authentication failed for user [oracle]Sep 3 00:27:49 server pure-ftpd: (?@202.96.5.29) [WARNING] Authentication failed for user [oracle]Sep 3 00:27:49 server pure-ftpd: (?@202.96.5.29) [ERROR] Too many authentication failuresSep 3 00:27:49 server pure-ftpd: (?@202.96.5.29) [INFO] New connection from 202.96.5.29
I have a slight problem with one user trying to upload with FTP to the server. The problem is, if he is uploading a file that will take awhile... his FTP connection will be dropped if he visits his site during the transfer.
Me and a few others have tried duplicating the problem with no success. Our uploads do not get stopped. Anyhow, I took a guess that maybe it was a problem with APF our software based firewall. I turned it off for a few minutes, and then the users problems dissappeared.
I turned on full logging in APF, and had the user try yet again. Here is the output:
The 17:23:44listings is the exact time he visited his site during the upload. The weird part is the Timeout message at that same exact time. No new data for 900 seconds...
Anyhow, I don't really want to post the full apf.conf if I don't have to... So can anyone take a guess at what APF rule might be causing the problem?
Also, why would it only be affecting 1 client when all the rest can visit their site while uploading?
Timezone on server is set to GMT -5 EDT My timezone is GMT -5 EDT
Yet filezilla 3.x ftp client connected to my server's pure-ftpd server offsets time on transferred files by an hour, saying now at 8:52 that the file was uploaded to the server at 9:52.
WHM and uptime, etc. at the SSH prompt show server time correct, matching my own time.
If I connect locally to pure-ftp via the server shell ftp, I get Connected to localhost. 220---------- Welcome to Pure-FTPd [TLS] ---------- 220-You are user number 1 of 50 allowed. 220-Local time is now 20:52. Server port: 21.
which matches
$ uptime 20:52:28
The filezilla forums however indicate the problem is due to some "non-standards compliant setup" of my ftp server.
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Quote:
As required in RFC 3659 [url]FileZilla assumed MDTM returns timestamps in UTC. Based on the timestamp return in the LIST reply and the corresponding MDTM reply, it calculates the timezone offset of the server.
Obviously this fails on broken or misconfigured servers.
I can assure you that it works fine on all standards-compliant servers.
Is there something I can tweak with pure-ftpd, or is this a Filezilla 3 bug?
Today I tried to setup pure-ftpd server on slackware linux and managed to do that I also enabled virtual users feature, but when I log in to ftp as virtual user I cannot create any dirs or change dirs.
My question is - how do I enable for virtual user: deleting, changing, renaming, creating files, dirs in his home ftp directory?
We are going to host our own website. I built up a windows 2003 server. Installed IIS6. I am working on file upload to our website. I can get files to upload to c:Temp but not to c:Inetpubwwwrootourwebsiteupload.
I even set up the upload directory for full sharing with write permissions. Still no help.
I went into windows explorer and right clicked on the upload dir and shared it and set the permissions for read and write. That should take care of NTFS permissions. But no matter what I do when I click on the upload directory and go to properties is shows 'read only'. Can't seem to get that turned off. Until I do I don't believe I can upload a file to the upload directory.
I went into iis6 mgr and and set the upload directory for full access - read and write. That should take care of iis security.
I went to default website (there is only one) and allowed anon login. Even told it use the Administrator account for login with all read and write permissions.
if you can share a 100MB download link that I can use to test cogent's speed to my network. Hopefully plugged into a 100MBPS port at the switch to see if it will max out or not.
i have moved my hosting to a new provider and i was wondering what is the quickest way to upload my 500MB files to the new server? Is there anyway i can speed this up like have a dedicated uplink port to my server, or via VPN or something, cos at the moment i have an upload speed of around 10KB/s,
My requirements are 500MB, 5GB bandwidth, rails and postgres, $5-6 per month. It looks like there are many providers out there that are offer that.
However the only uploading method shared hosters seem to offer - or at least the only method they advertise - is FTP. Coming from a university and sysadmin background, I thought that anything that sends passwords over the wire unencrypted had died long ago (except HTML forms and legacy systems).
Are there any shared hosting services that allow a more secure upload method (e.g. scp, rsync-over-ssh, even webdav-over-ssl)?
company for over a month or 2 contacting them (support tickets) is as useless as not!.. their reply is always simply: we checked and nothing at our side! (asking for a clarification simply gets u nothing!)
problem is simply ONLY with ftp uploads! my line upstream is 256Kbps (32 KB/sec) and down 1Mbps and i was always capable of pushing up to 2.2 GB/day ((i monitor my traffic all the time)) but just recently some weird things started appearing...
before uploads would never go under 27-26 KBs on my FTP client now it's so normal finding it dropping to 15,10,4,2, 0! ya a whole 0! and that's not just for a second or two it can stay like that for maybe aminute then go up back again! And upon watching my traffic statistics closely, i found myself pushing at the most 1.6 GB only a day! another funny thing is that files used to appear AND PARTIALLY in the root directory instead of the desired directory! so WHAT IS UP!
Ok i get 403 forbidden when i try to access /uploads/ on my server. I wish to make it public. Can i make a index.html file dispay all of the files in the directory?
I am about to purchase a reseller (Diamond) or maybe just a Hosting (Swamp) but I cant seem to find anywhere details on their MySQL policies.
I have a forum and the database if growing in size daily and im concerned about the database upload limit that may be applied. I have a dedicated server at the moment and im able to request that be changed via php.ini but where would I stand on this if I were to move to shared hosting?
I just moved to a new, dedicated server this week. My vbulletin forum users typically upload mp3 files under 10MB. At the moment, I can't seem to get anything above 6MB to work.
In vBulletin land, they recommend changing these in php.ini: upload_max_filesize - Largest size of a file to accept. post_max_size - Must be larger than upload_max_filesize. memory_limit - Should be larger than post_max_size. max_execution_time max_input_time
I've cranked all of those up and restarted Apache.
I'm still having the same problems. The little window with the form turns white after what appears maybe 5 minutes, but I haven't timed it.
They also mentioned changing the LimitRequestBody in Apache. I appear to be screwing that part up so I created a thread in the Apache forum specificallya about that. [url]
So I wanted to ask if there were any other possibilities that you guys could think of that would inhibit the file size up uploads via a form.
I'm running httpd-2.2.8 and php-5.2.6. It needs to be said that this forum is config is mostly right out of the box. $_SESSION wouldn't work in php until I changed the directory for it yesterday. So there may be a very basic config setting that I missed.
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I decided to check my error logs.
PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 9852343 bytes)
I'm confused. I have an allowed memory of 30MB (give or take). So why does a 10MB file "exhaust" it?
We have a server that we just changed over to PHPSUEXEC. On this server, we have a large IPB (Invision Power Board) forum that we have not been able to get uploads in the forum back working again. Users are getting the message that they don't have permission, and to contact an administrator.
I have looked on IPB's forum for PHPSUEXEC related issues, but can't find a solution. Of couse, before phpsuexec the "upload" folder had 777 file permissions, but under phpsuexec this must be 755. It isn't working though.
Anyone had experience with this with IPB and know how to fix it?
Are you using any kind of external firewalling? I have enabled the passive ports in pure-ftpd and attempted to connect in passive mode, but it still fails.
and
Howdy,
You should allow connections on 30000 through 50000 for passive ftp
I have checked some ftp failure login attempt made but when i check log file but only see real ip address which is external ip address but i want to trace main ip so anyone tell me howto trace that ip address.
I'm currently a video sharing site and I'm aiming for large videos (around 500MB - 1GB), now I have to take into account an average user should only be able to do 30k-50k per sec.
So the session_timeout and upload_max need to be adjusted. Anybody with experience with large upload sites ?
First of all, I discoverd this forum during my quest to unravel the mysteries of how my site was hacked. I hope this is an appropriate forum to discuss the issues even though I am not a web hosting provider, but merely a customer of a web hosting company, hostrocket.com
I have an installation of WordPress 2.1 WordPress creates a couple world writable directories such as Uploads and Cache which are owned by nobody. Apparently (according to the tech support at hostrocket.com) someone was able to insert and exectue a php script in my world writable Uploads directory. Over 40MB of scripts, executables and files were uploaded. As best I can tell, my space was being used as some sort of link farm or perhaps acting as a server in my webspace. I do not have much knowledge about these things and consequently can't talk very inetlligently about them. But I am trying to grasp what little I am able to absorb about how this could have happened, what I can do to mitigate it from reocurring in the future.
Some of the stuff that was in the directory is as follows...
So the first thing my webhost had me do was to change ownership of the directories owned by nobody to me. Then I was able to change permissions from 777 to 755. However in so doing, I am no longer able to use the Dashboard of WordPress to upload images anymore, unless I temporarily change permissions back to 777.
The other thing the tech support guy did is to create an .htaccess file with, php_flag engine off I guess this basically renders php scripts impotent from running.
So without flaming me, can you help me understand how someone in a shared server environment is able to put a php script into one of my directories?
What amazed me was this particular script, "99.php" actually when viewed in a browser window titled phpshell was called "c99adult v. 1.0 pre-release build #16". It basically enabled whoever had access to the URL, to view my webspace, and do all sorts of nasty things. Talk about a wake-up call!
Obviously this enabled the hacker to view my config.php file and ascertain my database password and everything else. Whether he did, or whether there is a logfile of that info that could enable him to hack the database at some time in the future is unknown to me but it's really freaking me out.
