In this blog we will show how to setup an FTP on AWS machine. They heydays of FTP (File Transfer Protocol) maybe over and it is not as popular as it used to be. I personally have not used FTP for several years. Several professional IP and CCTV cameras support FTP. It is an easy way to setup a central repository for all your CCTV cameras online. All the CCTV cameras can upload the camera feed or snapshots to an FTP server. This server can serve as a repository for one or more cameras. We will now look at how to setup FTP on an AWS EC2 Ubuntu machine. AWS provides a service called SFTP, which is too expensive. Setting up an FTP server on an EC2 machine is a much better alternative.
Log in to your AWS account and launch an Ubuntu 16.04 machine. You can use the smallest machine to begin with. The storage will be a function of the amount of data you want to store. We will use a 20 GB machine in the demo.
Expose ports 20-21 for FTP access and ports 1024-1048 as passive ports.
VSFTPD or very secure file transfer protocol deamon is an open source FTP server for unix based systems.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install vsftpd
Open the vsftpd file as super user for editing
sudo vim /etc/vsftpd.conf
Make the following edits
listen=YES
#listen_ipv6=YES
anonymous_enable=no
write_enable=YES
connect_from_port_20=YES
pasv_enable=YES
pasv_min_port=1024
pasv_max_port=1048
pasv_address=54.165.49.1
port_enable=YES
userlist_enable=YES
userlist_file=/etc/vsftpd.userlist
userlist_deny=NO
We will now create a user and prepare the directory for access. We will call the user aloka for now, when prompted add a password and you can just press enter for the other prompts, letting the defaults continue.
sudo adduser aloka
Create the user file list and the new user
echo "aloka" | sudo tee -a /etc/vsftpd.userlist
Restart FTP service so that the new configuration is activated
sudo service vsftpd start
Your FTP service is now ready for use. You can connect to your FTP server using the command with your public IP address. The default directory will the home of the user, which in this case is /home/aloka
ftp -p <public_ip>
Use the credentials created in step 5 to access the FTP service.
Your FTP service is now up and ready to use.
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