I have inherited a linux web server from an old systems admin at my new job, and honestly I have very little linux/apache experience so I apologize if this seems like a newbish question. I have no way of being able to upload any files to the server via FTP or sFTP. when i go in with FTP it allows me to view files but won't allow download or upload files to the server at all. However whenever I go in with sFTP I can download files but it will not let me upload anything and it continues to tell me "permission denied" whenever I do. Any suggestions on how I can change the permissions to allow it? I do have command line access with SSH as a super user which is my only way of going about controlling anything on this server.
Are you logging in as a non-privileged user? You should make sure the directory you are trying to access has the correct CHMOD and CHOWN values for the user. You could log in as root, but that is only when it is the only option available. Which ftpd is the server using?