(dv):Client FTP site using Plesk's Web Users

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Want to provide your clients or employees with their own secure FTP access?

First, set up a Web User under the appropriate domain. Here is the Plesk 8.6 documentation:

Now your Web User has FTP access. By default, however, the directories are web-accessible through a URL like 'yourdomain.com/~user/', which is not desired. Simply disabling the UserDir module for the domain will make the web_users directory inaccessible through a browser, but the users will be able to access it via FTP.

First, login via ssh as root and create or open your vhost.conf file using vi. 

vi /var/www/vhosts/yourdomain.com/conf/vhost.conf

Add the following line to your vhost.conf file. 

UserDir disabled

Save your vhost.conf file and run the 'web' command. 

web

Finally, restart Apache. 

/etc/init.d/httpd restart

If you are instead trying to create an additional FTP user with access to one of your domains, see Additional FTP and SSH users instead.

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