Help with FTP setup

FAQ item 2 at Centmin Mod FAQ - Menu based Nginx installer outlines that Centmin Mod isn't for shared hosting so given current /home/nginx/* structure you can't limit it per domain vhost like you want for per user isolated access right now.

To limit per domain/user account for isolation, you would need a total rework of Centmin Mod Nginx structure and vhost creation - I did a preview demo of jailed chrooted user Nginx vhost planned for in future at WordPress Auto Installer & SSH, SFTP, SCP chrooted user accounts for Nginx vhost | Centmin Mod Blog and on forums replicated that blog article at Previews - Jailed / chrooted SFTP & SSH user Nginx vhost menu | Centmin Mod Community

Unfortunately, there's alot of stuff to do for .08 beta for stable release and builds and features beyond before any work can be done on jailed chroot users. Jailed chroot users can't come first as it could break features planned if not tested first. Think of jailed chroot users coming first like buying all your houses furniture, bedding, bathroom fittings and kitchen appliances before you even decide on a new house and of what size house. How do you know everything you purchased will fit the house and space within?

For now probably easiest and most secure way to give dev access would be to setup a separate VPS on hourly billing i.e. with DigitalOcean and replicate your wordpress site on it so they only have access to that staging test copy VPS only. In fact that's what I'd usually do regardless of whether or not Centmin Mod is used as you really don't want 3rd parties making changes to live production sites without first being tested on a staging/test server anyway

 

Yes no way to do that for out of box Centmin Mod installs, unless you modify the structure and vhost and account setup/vsftp etc yourself. Unfortunately, I can't provide any support or help for that so you would have to know how to do it yourself or if you're lucky other forum members here can share their tips or guides for how they have done such changes.

 

yeah thanks for asking the right question over at LEB

Yup.. testing please

 

In theory it should, but only testing on .08 betas right now

 

I've updated instructions and info at CentOS 7.x - How to help test .08 CentOS 7 Betas with Github code ? | Page 13 | Centmin Mod Community

Unlike @Mask original suggested setup, I went beyond that for Centmin Mod's pure-ftpd implementation as it uses FTP over TLS/SSL via self signed certificate, so you need to set FTP mode to explicit TLS/SSL port 21, enable PASV passive connections and uncheck SSL certificate validation - the linked page added a list of FTP clients and how to connect.

Note passive ports if needed to be set in FTP client are in range between 3000 to 3050 i.e. for Filezilla.