Hello Friends, Today we are going learn how to Setup FTP Server (vsftpd) on Google Cloud Compute Engine. Actually one of my client was asking for google cloud based ftp server but this thing was totally new for me and for that reason I had to do research on this and after 2 days finally I got the solution. And now when I have solution so I thought to share it. To Setup FTP server we just need to follow below steps:-

Step 1: create a virtual machine instance

after clicking create you will see your instance like below screenshot

Step 2: Connect to your instance through SSH by clicking on SSH

Step 3: Install ftp server (vsftpd) using below command

Step 4: Configure FTP Server (vsftpd) by updating vsftpd.conf configuration file using below command

the above command will open vsftpd.conf file in nano editor and then we need to do below changes in this configuration file.

Look for #write_enable=YES and uncomment by removing # sign to allow ftp users to write files to server.
Look for #chroot_local_user=YES and uncomment removing # sign to prevent users to browsing outside their own folder.
Look for #local_umask=022 and uncomment it by removing # sign to give correct permissions to uploaded files and folder.

Then we need to paste below line at the end of the file

Step 5: Restart vsftpd and check status using below command

Step 6: Create user and add ownership and permissions using below command

We will be asked to enter password while adding user, so we need enter password of our choice which will be used later to connect to ftp

Step 7: Update firewall rules to allow ports (20-21, 990, 40000 – 50000)

Step 8: Connecting to FTP Server

Step 9: Secure FTP with TLS (optional)

update vsftpd.conf configuration file to look for ssl_enable=NO and we’ll change it to ssl_enable=YES and we are done.

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