[Wolves] Ftp to my server problem

[Baza]

On 12/5/05 07:59, "Alan Pope" <alan.pope at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?
>

It tells me I don't have delete or overwrite permissions. There were no
useful logs.

Baza