Centos – Permanent mount and bind on CentOS

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I have set up a CentOS 6.2 VirtualBox along with FTP and Apache root of /var/www/html/.

By default, the user ftp account is set to /home/user_name/.

However, I'm guessing it's common practice to give that user access to the /var/www/html/.

I was able to mount and bind the directory to the user directory as such:

mkdir /home/ftp_user/html/
mount --bind /var/www/html/ /home/ftp_user/html/

But as soon as I shut down my VirtualBox, this bind disappears.

Is there any way to make this permanent?

Sure - put the bind mount in your /etc/fstab. Device is your source directory, mount point is your mount point, and the type is 'bind'.

Something like this:

/var/www/html/ /home/ftp_user/html/ bind rw,bind 0 0

CentOS 5.5 should have filesystem ACLs on by default, just use setfacl to give 'ftpuser' the rights:

setfacl -R -m u:ftpuser:rwx /var/www/myWebApp

See the man page for setfacl/getfacl if you've never used them before.

It's selinux for 99 % ;-)

# getenforce
Enforcing

Turn it off by:

# setenforce 0
# vim /etc/sysconfig/selinux

And set it to "disabled" in that file or "permissive" if you plan to turn it on sometime in future or you want to track selinux errors.

For FTP I highly recommend NOT to turn it off. Follow the RHEL 6 guides how to set it up properly for a FTP site.