We will be installing Pure-FTPd 1.0.32 on CentOS 5.6 in this tutorial. These are the latest versions at the time of writing this tutorial. Pure-FTPd offers a comprehensive FTP server solution that is easy to implement on CentOS. Let’s start:
wget http://download.pureftpd.org/pub/pure-ftpd/releases/pure-ftpd-1.0.32.tar.bz2 tar xvjpf pure-ftpd-1*.tar.bz2 cd pure-ftpd-1*
Now we will need to make a configuration for Pure-FTPd. We recommend using our configuration unless you have your own in mind.
32-bit configuration:
./configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin \ --sbindir=/usr/sbin --libexecdir=/usr/libexec \ --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc \ --sharedstatedir=/usr/com --localstatedir=/var \ --libdir=/usr/lib --includedir=/usr/include \ --infodir=/usr/share/info --mandir=/usr/share/man
64-bit configuration:
./configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin \ --sbindir=/usr/sbin --libexecdir=/usr/libexec \ --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc \ --sharedstatedir=/usr/com --localstatedir=/var \ --libdir=/usr/lib64 --includedir=/usr/include \ --infodir=/usr/share/info --mandir=/usr/share/man
Now let’s build and install:
make install-strip echo "/usr/sbin/pure-ftpd -S 21 -c 30 -C 10 -B -k 99% -l unix -A -x -E -Z" >> /etc/rc.d/rc.local /usr/sbin/pure-ftpd -S 21 -c 30 -C 10 -B -k 99% -l unix -A -x -E -Z
Pure-FTPd should now be running. Linux users (not root) should be able to FTP into their home directories at this time.