vsftpd Access – Allow Local Users to Access /var/www Folder

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I have successfully installed the vsftpd. and it is live, but I get following error:

Response:   500 OOPS: cannot change directory:/home/sovit

What I want to do is direct all local users of the system to the /var/www folder instead of their home root.

Below is the vsftpd conf file:

Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you.

PS: As another way: you can change the $HOME folder of ftp user to the /var/www instead of setting local_root in vsftpd.conf.

What you need to use is a combo of user_config_dir and local_root. In the main config file /etc/vsftpd/vsftp.conf you have an entry like:

chroot_local_user=YES
user_config_dir=/etc/vsftpd/users

Inside that directory (/etc/vsftpd/users) you have a config file with the same name as the user ($USER in your case), and inside that file you have:

local_root=/var/www/sites/USER
dirlist_enable=YES
download_enable=YES
write_enable=YES

...where USER is the actual name (not literally USER or $USER).

You have created a dir called pub/upload:

# mkdir /var/ftp/pub/upload

But then you configured uploads to go to pub/incoming:

anon_root=/var/ftp/pub/incoming

So it's a simple path mismatch, all the rest seems OK.