[Wolves] Ftp to my server problem

[Alan Pope]

On 11/05/05, Baza <baza at themauvezone.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> 
> On 11/5/05 21:42, "Gary" <gary at leamore.net> wrote:
> 
> > Check to see if the existing files are the same owner as the account you are
> > FTP'ing as.
> > Rather than overwriting the existing file, try deleting it and then uploading
> > your new file.
> > As well as checking the owner and permissions of the files you are
> > overwriting, check the current directory permissions/ownership too.
> >
> > Gary
> >
> >
> > Baza wrote ..
> >> Hiya,
> >>
> >> I'm running wu-ftp on my web server (ubuntu 5.04) I'm trying to ftp pages
> >> to
> >> it from Dreamweaver on my iMac G5. The problem is I can read files from
> >> my
> >> server ok, but when I try to put files there it fails.
> >>
> >> I've set the permissions for /var/www/ to me for read and write but I still
> >> can't ftp files there. I need to be able to over write and delete.
> >>
> >> Any ideas?
> >>
> >> Baza
> 
> OK, done that. The permissions seem ok. Here's an example, -rwxrwxr-x  1
> baza baza   773 May  6 00:57 apple.htm
> 
> Still can't delete or write to the directory from remote.
> 

What error message do you get in your ftp client? Does it specifically
say you're not authorised? Does your ftp server have any logs in
/var/log/ on your webserver that have any useful hints when something
goes wrong?

Cheers,
Al.