Create ftp account for main domain?

[formula13x]

How can I create an ftp account to use the home directory of /usr/local/apache/htdocs/?

the normal methods using useradd and pure-pw don't seem to work?


Here is what I've tried (to no avail)

useradd USERNAMETOUSE -d /usr/local/apache/htdocs/ -s /sbin/nologin

pure-pw useradd USERNAMETOUSE -u LOCALUSERNAMETOUSE -d /usr/local/apache/htdocs

Is there a way from the main cpanel administrator to do this? Or does anybody else have a solution?

[rhenderson]

You did not specify what your trying to do, so I assume, this server i syours and you have root access and your trying to find a way to upload you content to the default server directory? If I am right read on, if I am wrong ignore me.

Just use an ftp program like CoreFtp, add a new entry in your site manager, change the connection to SSH/SFTP change your port if it is non-stansard (which is highl recommended) then you can use an ftp program to access your server via SSH. Hope this helps.

[formula13x]

I appreciate the response. That's not exactly what I was trying to explain.

Instead of "Create ftp account for main domain?" let me try to state it a different way.

How do I create an ftp account within the webhost manager that will have access to /usr/local/apache/htdocs/?

Here are the technical details of the box/software.

WHM 11.23.2 cPanel 11.23.6-R27698
CENTOS Enterprise 5.2 i686 on virtuozzo - WHM X v3.1.0


I'm wanting to create an ftp account, on my server, but cpanel has things configured differently than I would expect.

I own a domain (say domainiown.com). So I would log into my my webhost manager at

http://www.domainiown.com:2086/

Now, I want to also have a website hosted off the regular port 80 of this domain, so if you were to access http://www.domainiown.com/.
(this is done by placing the content at /usr/local/apache/htdocs and configuring apache to use domainiown as the default virtual host.

Now, if I wanted to create an ftp account, to access /usr/local/apache/htdocs, how would I do that (preferrably specifying his as the home directory for that ftp account)? I don't see a way of managing ftp users within the webhost manager, only at the cpanel account level.

I'm thinking the next thing I will try is to just create an ftp account through one of the ftp accounts and then trying to manipulate things with a linked directory or something?

[rhenderson]

Ah, just realized you are the same person from post http://forums.cpanel.net/showthread.php?t=99833

/usr/local/apache/htdocs is for the hostname, not domain name.

I assume you have a hostname.domainiwon.com just create an account domainiwon.com, then go back to the stuff you talked about in the above post and change the document root to /home/domainiwon/public_html then you have an ftp account to your "main domain"

[Infopro]

I think he answered you correctly above. And you are correct in how to add a default site as you want. You won't access WHM at that URL though, it would be something like fred.yourserver.com:2087 If you're not going to be using SFTP to get to root files often, you might want to take this route.
http://www.configserver.com/cp/cse.html

[formula13x]

Thanks! You guys are awesome! I've been repeatidly trying to overcomplicate this thing.. I'm used to building everything out from scratch.. Actually using a framework is forcing me to think... Well.. intuitively.. That's a new concept.. LOL

[rhenderson]

You're welcome. It can be a steep learning curve at first but once you start to understand the flow it makes sense.