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You can install ProFTPD package. Then create user with home directory that you want, in your example AwesomeWebsite/storage/Sam Broadcaster and in /etc/proftpd.conf write
DefaultRoot ~
I think it should work.
Jul 23, 2016
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Level 4
Connect to Digital Ocean droplet using FTP (I know not secure but I need it)
Hi,
I use Sam Broadcaster to play radio over my website. This software can tell my website which title is currently playing. After each song, it uploads automatically a JSON (or XML or whatever format you want) containing current playing title and history, and some other info (you can add your own). I use PHP (a webservice pulled by ajax) to read and parse the file. Yeah, it's a great software.
Anyway, it can only upload via FTP. And yes, I really need this feature.
Is there a way to allow FTP for a custom directory only?
- AwesomeWebsite
- app
- ...
- storage
- app
- Sam Broadcaster
I want to enable FTP for the directory AwesomeWebsite/storage/Sam Broadcaster ONLY.
What do I mean? I just want Sam Broadcaster to upload the file there and that's all. No commands (like cd or such thing) allowed.
Can anyone help me? Thanks.
Level 4
Thank you.
I followed their tutorial and then added your config but I have this error:
Can't connect to `(my ip)': Operation timed out
Tutorial: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-proftpd-on-ubuntu-12-04
Level 2
I haven't used SAM for many years (I migrated to another automation playout for mine) but if I recall, it can send the metadata to a URL (or there was a PAL script to do that, bit fuzzy now).
I then created, then, simple PHP to read the GET data and enter into a MYSQL database .
Dig on the SpacialAudio forums for info on sending metadata to a URL (either a GET or POST).
Level 4
Ham, I prefer FTP because I have an output template already well-parsed by my PHP code. So I'll continue digging this to make it work instead..
Well, I'm following this tutorial now: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-vsftpd-on-ubuntu-12-04
After all installed and configured, when I run this netstat -ant | grep 21, it outputs
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:21 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
But when I do ftp [myip], it outputs
ftp: Can't connect to `[myip]`: Operation timed out
ftp: Can't connect to `[myip]`
How come? Please :), thank you
Level 3
If you want something more secure, use SFTP, port 22 in filezilla when connecting. And connect using the user running the webserver, ie. apache, www-data etc. Or root, like every other lazy developer using a droplet test environment :D
Level 4
I solved my problem.
This tutorial really helped me http://www.ostechnix.com/install-vsftpd-server-ubuntu-16-04-lts/
The trick was to run
sudo ufw allow ftp
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Level 1
@Let A bit late to the party, but... How did you chrooted the new FTP user to that specific '/storage/SAM Broadcaster' directory inside Laravel?? I am in the same situation and I can't figure out how... Thanks in advance.
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Hello,
I'm not sure, but for the no-code approach, you can try third-party data integration tools for your task.
As far as I know, Skyvia can perform such kind of integration with no coding needed You can read more here - https://skyvia.com/connectors/digitalocean
Hope it helps
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