Enabling FTP Services in Yum Server (Part 5)

Enabling FTP Services in Yum Server

Your client can download and install packages from yum server using FTP services. For providing FTP services you have to create a public directory named “rhel5” into /var/ftp/pub/ directory and put all the packages in it.

Step-1:  Installing the ftp package

[root@yumsrv ~]# yum install vsftpd*

Step-2:  Edit the vsftps.conf file

[root@yumsrv ~]# vi /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf

Directives	Line Number	Orginal File Text	Modified File Text
Anonymous_enable	12	YES	YES

Note: rempve the “#” from line number 27,31,81,81 but do not removw “#” from the line 89 & 91.

[root@yumsrv ~]# service iptables stop

[root@yumsrv ~]# chkconfig iptables off

[root@yumsrv ~]# service network restart

[root@yumsrv ~]# service vsftpd restart

[root@yumsrv ~]# chkconfig vsftpd on

Client side configuration

Follow the “HTTP Client configuration” Just replace “http://210.207.201.254/rhel5”

With ftp://210.207.201.254/pub/rhel5. Also configure the “/etc/hosts” file.