
The server configuration obviously depends on the your needs. Regardless, you might want to change the server configuration anyways.

If you leave the configuration untouched, then vsftpd will be configured exactly the same as if you downloaded vsftpd from. To install and run vsftpd, simply run the commands below:īy default, Alpine's vsftpd package does not modify the default configuration. Vsftpd is available in the Alpine Linux repositories. Per user ftp files can be supported by special directive in the nf file using user_sub_token to something like /home/$USER/public_ftp directory by example if we enable it (process are described below in further section "vsftpd configuration". The installation does not work out of the box, cos enable by default anonymous access is enabled and it only works with IPv4 only.


FTPS is plain FTP with TLS/SSL encryption.Īlpine Linux has various FTP clients and servers that you can install and use: SFTP, as the name implies, is done over SSH. Such include SFTP (SSH FTP, not to be confused with Simple FTP), FTPS (FTP SSL), and others. FTP is among the oldest protocols as its origins can be traced as far back as 1971 according to Wikipedia. However, this page could probably be restructured so that the content flows more smoothly, although this is currently being worked on.įTP (or File Transfer Protocol) is a protocol that allows you to transfer files from a server to a client and vice versa (as FTP uses a client-server architecture). This page has been rampant with typos and grammar errors before, most of which have been corrected. This material needs wiki syntax or style improvements.
