Setup FTP/SFTP server for ubuntu server 12.04 and wordpress

Setup FTP/SFTP server for ubuntu server 12.04 and wordpress

You can omit this section if you do have any ftp server setup already on your server.

Otherwise do the following to install ftp server called vsftd.

sudo apt-get install vsftpd

Now edit your vsftpd.conf file in order to disable anonymous connections and allowing your user to upload files to your server:

sudo nano /etc/vsftpd.conf

By default anonymous connections are allowed. So, you should change the following line and have it in this way:
anonymous_enable=NO

Also, by default, local system users are not allowed to login to FTP server. To change this setting, you should uncomment the following line:
#local_enable=YES

In the same way, users are allowed to download files from FTP server, but they are not allowed to upload files to FTP server. To change this setting, you should uncomment the following line:
#write_enable=YES

Save the changes made and start the vsftpd daemon running the following command:

sudo /etc/init.d/vsftpd start

If you receive error during wordpress installation

wordpress Username/Password incorrect

Then just restart vsftpd daemon

sudo /etc/init.d/vsftpd restart