Anonymous FTP is not active

[editor]

Anonymous FTP was (is) not active

Hi,


our new PLESK-server 7.5.2 running onto Linux with 1
IP-number is used for HTTP, MAIL and FTP.

Logged in to https://domainname.tld:8443 and to
go direct to our domainname, the icon "Anonymous FTP" is not
active.

If I move the mouse over this deactive icon "Anonymous FTP",
it says here following:

"Unable to set up Anonymous FTP: shared IP address type."

If I login by FTP to this one domainname, it shows very
clear a own folder "anon_ftp", so I think, this is not the
problem.

How is it possible to activated this? We have only 1
IP-number and the PLESK-reseller does not allow us to add
more IP-numbers.

Do you think, that there is a way to do anything in the
SQL-database under the table "psa", so this icon will be
active then?

Thank you for any ideas and suggestions.

 

[jamesyeeoc]

Go to the Servers, IP addresses area, click on the IP address, change it to Exclusive, then go back to Domains, and the icon should now be active.

The 'anon_ftp' directory is created by default on all domains. Just because it is there does not mean anonymous ftp is active. The directory will be present in all domains created.

 

[editor]

Originally posted by jamesyeeoc
Go to the Servers, IP addresses area, click on the IP address, change it to Exclusive, then go back to Domains, and the icon should now be active.

Thank you. Does this mean, that the other 6 domainnames
will not work anymore?

Example:

PLESK 7.5.2 with 1 IP-number has 6 domainnames:

mydomainname.tld (HTTP, FTP, MAIL and Anonymous-FTP)
anotherdomainname01.tld (only HTTP, FTP, MAIL)
anotherdomainname02.tld (only HTTP, FTP, MAIL)
anotherdomainname03.tld (only HTTP, FTP, MAIL)
anotherdomainname04.tld (only HTTP, FTP, MAIL)
anotherdomainname05.tld (only HTTP, FTP, MAIL)

If I switch the "shared IP-adress to exclusive IP" for
"mydomainname.tld", then the other domainnames
would then have a problem, hmm?

Thank you very much.

 

[jshanley]

An exclusive IP is one that is "exclusively" for a client. If all those domains belong to one client, then it's not a problem. Shared IPs are IPs that can be assigned to anyone.

 

[editor]

Hi Jshanley,

Originally posted by jshanley
An exclusive IP is one that is "exclusively" for a client. If all those domains belong to one client, then it's not a problem. Shared IPs are IPs that can be assigned to anyone.

Ah, thank you very much. I understand. So, if I add a new client with his own domainname, then my anonymous-FTP will not work anymore, correct?

If this is really so, how can I teach PLESK that this should be ignored? Hmm. I am just looking in the SQL-database under the table "psa".

Thank you.

 

[editor]

Originally posted by jamesyeeoc
Go to the Servers, IP addresses area, click on the IP address, change it to Exclusive, then go back to Domains, and the icon should now be active.

The 'anon_ftp' directory is created by default on all domains. Just because it is there does not mean anonymous ftp is active. The directory will be present in all domains created.

So, I was trying it to realize your idea.
Server --> IP-adresses ---> IP-number ---> change it to exclusive
[OK]

Error message, cite:

"You cannot change IP type, IP address belongs to the pools of
serveral clients at the same time."

It is correct, because my brother and my sister have also
access with their own "client"-account and there are listed
their domainnames.

How can I teach this PLESK to ignore this error-message?
All the domainnames use this one 1 IP-number so or so,
because the PLESK-reseller does not allow us to add more
IP-numbers to this PLESK-server.

How do you think about my trick: I will move all the
domainnames by the psa-entry in the SQL-database.
All domainnames will run under my account then. After it,
I will delete the other "client"-accounts. It seems then so,
that I am the only one client on this PLESK-server. Then
I will try to change it again to "exclusive ip-number". And if
this is ok, then I have an "Anonymous FTP". Correct?

thank you.

 

[jamesyeeoc]

editor,

As jshanley has already posted:

Originally posted by jshanley
An exclusive IP is one that is "exclusively" for a client. If all those domains belong to one client, then it's not a problem. Shared IPs are IPs that can be assigned to anyone.

Since you have now told us that you do have more than one 'client', then this will not be possible via the Plesk interface.

If you were to move all the domains to a single client account, and only have one client account, then you could do what I posted.

Keep in mind that if you do this, anonymous ftp will be turned on for *all* domains, not just one. That is also not a Plesk created problem, just the nature of the beast.

You need to keep in mind that Virtual domain hosting is not the same as dedicated (or exclusive) IP based hosting. They are quite different. In the old days, it used to be IP based only. Once they created ways to do Virtual hosting, it also created additional flexibility, but also limitations.

 

[editor]

Hi jamesyeeoc ,

Originally posted by jamesyeeoc
If you were to move all the domains to a single client account, and only have one client account, then you could do what I posted. [/B]

Yes, I m just trying to do this.

Originally posted by jamesyeeoc Keep in mind that if you do this, anonymous ftp will be turned on for *all* domains, not just one. That is also not a Plesk created problem, just the nature of the beast.[/B]

Oh, geeez. Hmm, you re right. If you want a clear configuration,
everything should get an own ip-number.

You need to keep in mind that Virtual domain hosting is not the same as dedicated (or exclusive) IP based hosting. They are quite different. In the old days, it used to be IP based only. Once they created ways to do Virtual hosting, it also created additional flexibility, but also limitations. [/B]

Well, some years ago, I had 256 IP-numbers running onto
PLESK (hmm, version 5 or so, a older Plesk-version). These
256 IP-numbers were from RIPE.NET, because we were located
in Europe. With the moving from Europe back to USA, we could
not move the european RIPE-IPs to USA, because North- and
South-America has ARIN as the right one station for american
IP-numbers. So, this is why we had to give back our 256
IP-numbers to RIPE and we have therefore to "restart" with
new american IP-numbers from ARIN. To oder new IP-numbers
from ARIN is not possible, because the PLESK-reseller allows
us only to have 1 IP-number. I am online since 1989, this
means for over 16 years. Just for your info about the little
background here with me.

BTW: In the meanwhile, I think, I should change the PLESK-reseller.
Do you have a tip for me? PLESK 7.5.2 Reloaded for max. 100
domainnames and only 3 IP-numbers would be very fine for me.
I have heard, that there should something good anywhere in
Colorado. Hmm?

Thank you.

 

[editor]

Hi,

so, I moved now all the domainnames to my cl_id.
The other cl_id do not have a domainname anymore.
If one of the other cl_id will login, then there will not
appear any domainname anymore, because all
domainnames are run now only under my cl_id.

And it does not work. Cite:

"You cannot change IP type, IP address belongs to the pools
of serveral clients at the same time."

I think, I will delete the other cl_id, so I am really the
only one cl_id with all the domainnames. I hope, that
this will work now.

 

[editor]

> "You cannot change IP type, IP address belongs to the pools
> of serveral clients at the same time."
>
> I think, I will delete the other cl_id, so I am really the
> only one cl_id with all the domainnames. I hope, that
> this will work now.

I really deleted all the other clients with their own cl_id.
Then I tried it again with

Server --> IP-adresses ---> IP-number ---> change it to exclusive
[OK]

The 1 IP-number is now "exclusive type IP adress". I test
now if I can call the URL of each domainname. For the
visitor, nothing happened. They will get the same website
like it was before.

Now I have a look again to mydomainname.tld to see,
if the icon "Anonymous FTP" is still deactived by Plesk.
And it is not deacitive anymore. It is active now! Fine.

I can setup now "Anonymous FTP" for mydomainname.tld.
And I do this now, of course. I am logged in as
"myclientid-account" instead of the Plesk-Admin. And what do
I see?

me > mydomainname.tld >
Anonymous FTP account for the domain mydomainname.tld

All is deactive, oh no. The icon "Anonymous FTP" was active,
but to be able to surf to there does not help me as the
"myclientid-account". I log out now.

I relogin to Plesk, but not with "myclientid-account", I use
now my Plesk-root-Account to login onto https://www.mydomainname.tld:8443
and I go again to mydomainname.tld to the icon "Anonymous FTP".

Now it seems so, that I can really setup anything there for
having an "Anonymous FTP"-server. And I do this, of course.

Domains > mydomainname.tld >
Anonymous FTP account for the domain mydomainname.tld

[enable]-button has the status, that it is disabled.

I fill out and mark all the things there.

[X] Display welcome message (a must says RFC)
Welcome to the public FTP of mydomainname.tld

[_] incoming, etc.. no, thank you

Limit of sim. connections: [100]
Limit of download bandwith: empty / unlimited

I think, I am finished. I click on [OK]
(I know, it is still enabled, which I will do in the next step)

Back to "Anonymous FTP", I click on "enable" this service.
Sucessfully done. It is active. Let me look know what will
happen if I call ftp://ftp.mydomainname.tld and if it will
really work. Wonderful! It works.

Current directory is /
Welcome to the public FTP of mydomainname!

conf/ Thu May 05 19:29:00 2005 Directory
incoming/ Wed Apr 13 16:01:00 2005 Directory
pub/ Wed May 04 20:25:00 2005 Directory

Looks good, doesn't it? ;-)

/conf/ and /incoming/ does not allow a user to upload anything.
Thats exact this what I setuped before. Now let me look to the
/pub/. Ok, I can download my test.zip and it works fine.

So, thank you all here for your suggestion, impulse.

 

[editor]

Ooops, there is something wrong with the Anonymous FTP.

ftp://ftp.mydomainname.tld/pub
shows there my test.zip-File.

ftp://ftp.theotherdomainname.tld/pub/
shows there also my test.zip-File.

I open my ftp-client, use the login-datas not of
"mydomainname.tld", I use the login-datas for FTP
of the "theotherdomainname.tld". And I go by FTP
to the folder

/anon-ftp/

This folder is total empty. I cannot see the "test.zip"-file.
I upload a "testpic.jpg" to /anon-ftp" and then I call
ftp://ftp.theotherdomainname.tld/ and I cannot see it.

I don't think, that this Plesk-configuration is conform with RFC
ftp://ftp.ripe.net/rfc/ because it seems so, that all the domainnames
will automatically get the files of "Anonymous FTP".

Any comments? Hmm...