I've just got a debian web server and I've successfully installed apache2 via the Putty client. I will only use the server as a file server, so it's ok that the URLs will be http://ip.ip.ip.ip/filename.ext I've read guides on how to install ftp clients, and I've tried many of them (so I think I have several ftp server on my server now). But I haven't got it to work so I can log into my server and put some files there. The guides I've seen only makes an own folder for users that they are adding, and they don't have access to the root. I've tried that as well, but I can't login to my FTP via a ftp client. I've tried connecting to the IP and ftp://ip and ftp.ip Can someone please give me a link to a tutorial or push me in the right direction. (This is my first day with debian)
This google link should you : http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=installing+ftp+server+on+linux&aq=f&oq= Also, maybe you arent able to connect via ftp because port 21 is blocked by a firewall ? If you got a firewall, I would check this first.
Like Camay said, you'll want to make sure port 21 is open, and you'll want to make sure to setup passive ports in your FTP configuration. The easiest way to get you going is just by installing LAMPP which should do most of the work for you (you will have to stop the Apache you've already installed though, LAMPP installs itself in /opt, so it shouldn't bother your existing install of Apache).