Environment Setup

1. Install Ubuntu Server

2. Connect your server to your router, and set up the internet

sudo ifconfig eth0 up
sudo dhclient eth0
# the 'eth0' part should be the same with you own hardware as shown in the output of ifconfig

3. Prepare the folder and account for FTP

3.1 Creat an account for FTP user

sudo useradd hitcsc
sudo passwd hitcsc
#Enter the password twice

3.2 Creat a folder or FTP users

In /home

mkdir ftp
sudo chown hitcsc:hitcsc ftp

Use ls -l to test if the owner of ftp is set as hitcsc

Install and set up VSFTP

1. Install

sudo apt-get update

then

sudo apt-get install vsftp

2. FTP Set Up

Edit the configure file of VSFTP

sudo vi /etc/vsftpd.conf

Edit the file like this

listen=YES               ＃以standalone模式运行vsftpd
#listen_ipv6=YES
anonymous_enable=NO ＃允许匿名用户访问
local_enable=YES
write_enable=YES
virtual_use_local_privs=YES
#local_umask=022
#anon_upload_enable=YES
#anon_mkdir_write_enable=YES
dirmessage_enable=YES    ＃当用户首次进入FTP服务器的目录时，显示该目录下的message消息，默认为.message文件,可以用message_file来定义
xferlog_enable=YES ＃启用日志，默认路径/var/log/vsftpd.log
connect_from_port_20=YES ＃数据连接使用默认的ftp-data端口(20端口)
use_localtime=YES
ssl_enable=NO
local_root=/home/ftp
cmds_denied=DELE,RMD #禁止删除

Use sudo service svftpd start to start the service