[SOLVED] Setting up a FTP server

Hai all :>
i'm trying to setup a local FTP server which is running on my home server. my aim is to provide a ftp server which allows everyone within my locale network to connect and upload stuff (= read- + writable for everyone who has logged in)
i've already tested vsftpd and worked through the wiki page:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ver … simpler.29
connecting works but i can't either create nor upload anything. do i have to add more things to my configfile or does vsftp disallows uploading by default?
best regards :>
Last edited by arch0r (2009-06-04 19:55:59)

Not sure if it's okay to post in a topic that's been [SOLVED], feel free to correct me if I'm doing it wrong. :-)
I just set up a webserver at home with SSH, Apache and VSFTPD. Now I'm doing this for my brother, because I figured if I only pay for his domain name and not also a webhotel I'll be saving alot of money(!). He wants to run like, two blogs, one for his baby kid and one for himself. Myself I want to learn python, people tell me django is the way to learn it(?) and since most service providers favour Rails it's a no go here.
1) Now I got the domain connected to the server through a dynamic DNS service, and it displays the webpage located in /srv/http. In the /srv directory there is also the /ftp folder, which I reach by simply going to ftp://mydomainname.com/ in Firefox. However, if I connect to the FTP server through Transmit (Mac OS X client) I need to enter my login credentials (same as for logging in via SSH, I ain't got no separate user table for the FTP) and I end up in my homefolder. I suppose that's nice (I dunnu really) since if you could enter like, ftp://mydomainname.com/thoht, and have access to my home directory that'd be awesome. How do I configure it to be like that?
2) For the websites though (I take it FTP and WWW are different things now and stored separetely) I'd rather have it stored where it is, so that I may create custom folders beneath. On the other hand what if I got several domain names, and subdomain names? If I go to mydomainname.com in Firefox I end up on the index.html page in the /srv/http folder. Shouldn't I be able to store several folders named correspondingly to the specific domain name in there?
Thanks in advance!

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