Creating FTP user

What is the intended purpose for FTP user account ? can't you access it via SFTP and root user ?

 

/usr/local/nginx is nginx config files and not site files so dev wants access to nginx config files ?

It's not that easy for Centmin Mod as there is no user isolation chroot/jailed so normal FTP system users are not locked to specific directories.

Or does dev want access to site files in web root /home/nginx/domains/yourdomain.com/public ? If they want access best is to give them pure-ftp virtual FTP user or even better setup a test staging separate VPS server with a copy of your site and different pure-ftpd user and give access to that test staging copy.

 

There isn't much there in that location other than default nginx page when accessed via IP address and the statistics pages for the server. As such you can probably setup a separate test VPS server with Centmin Mod, and just give dev access via root on separate test server. Once they done what they need to add to /usr/local/nginx/html, you can move it over to your live server yourself.

 

I see. Unfortunately, /usr/local/nginx/html isn't intended for web sites so only way is give them root access. Though it shouldn't be hard to replicate your site and it's issues if you setup a separate VPS and uploaded the same files from /usr/local/nginx/html to test VPS and same nginx vhost for virtual.conf to test VPS and that should give same issues to debug for on test VPS.

 

Oh other way is by moving site from /usr/local/nginx/html to it's own nginx vhost site at /home/nginx/domains/yourdomain.com/public and giving them that site's pure-ftpd virtual FTP user account