How can you Select a FTP Server Daemon or Disable the FTP server?

Posted by Allura on 22 03 2019.

One can navigate (WHM>> Home>> Service Configuration>> FTP Server Selection) to utilize this feature.

Introduction

An FTP server refers to a computer equipped with file transfer protocol (FTP) address and is devoted to establishing an FTP connection. It needs a TCP/IP network to function. The FTP server is a crucial component and aids the exchange of files over the internet between a client and a server. In order to protect and secure the username and password for safe and secure transmission of files, FTP is usually protected with SSL/TLS (FTPS) or switched with SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP)

With this interface you can perform two functions:

1. Select FTP server daemon.
2. Disable FTP services.

How can you Select an FTP Daemon?

Follow the steps given below to select an FTP daemon for your server:

1. Select ProFTPD or PureFTPD under the ‘FTP Server’ column.
2. Hit ‘Save’.

How can you Disable FTP Server?

To disable the FTP services, you have to:

1. Under the ‘FTP server’ column, select ‘Disabled’.
2. Hit ‘Save’.

Difference Between Pre-FTPD and ProFTPD

Pure-FTPD is a free STP server licensed by BSD. Its main area of focus is software security. Pure-FTPD can be run on a number of  operating systems like FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Linux, Solaris, Tru64, Irix, HP-UX, DragonFly BSD, NetBSD, Darwin and Android.

ProFTPD is short for Pro FTP daemon. It is free and open source software that can run on Unix-like systems and Microsoft Windows. Platforms that support ProFTPD are:

• SCO
• DG/UX
• AIX
• BSD/OS
• HP/UX
• Digital Unix
• IRIX
• FreeBSD
• Linux for IBM S/390, zSeries
• Linux
• OpenBSD
• Windows
• SunOS
• Solaris
• Mac OS X
• NetBSD

Note:

• Problems may arise in the cPanel user interface, when you upgrade a server whose FTP RPM’s target is set to unmanaged.
• cPanel and WHM version 68 solely supports Transport Layer Security protocol version 1 .2. But to manage your PureFTPD server, you can utilize TLSv1.1 or TLSv 1.2 .

Conclusion

This article contains all the significant information and details regarding FTP server.