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Here a simple FTP server in python and it provides basic tasks like uploading , downloading, removing, renaming files and adding new directory to the server.
This app will be running both the server and client on the same local machine.
In this project ftplib, pyftpdlib and wx libraries have been imported
! Remind python3 does not support wx library
Enter the following code at the command line to start the server
now you can start the client app
you will see the login screen after the above command
enter server ip as 127.0.0.1, username as root and password as 1234 and then press login button
now you can start to use the local ftp app
- Users can upload many files at the same time
- Users can navigate on remote using the back and forward buttons
- Users can download the files by pressing the download button
- Users can remove the files by pressing the remove file button
- Users can remove the empty directory by pressing the remove directory button
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Simple ftps server in python using pyftpdlib
Before installing anything, follow these steps:
- Rename config_sample.yaml file inside the source directory to config.yaml
- Change a few things in the config.yaml file.
- Replace the value of masquerade_address with the public ip address of the server.
- Replace the value of certfile with the absolute path of the certificate file keycert.pem
- Add users with username, password and their home directory, and permissions. 1. Read permissions:
- «e» = change directory (CWD command)
- «l» = list files (LIST, NLST, MLSD commands)
- «r» = retrieve file from the server (RETR command)
2. Write permissions: - "a" = append data to an existing file (APPE command) - "d" = delete file or directory (DELE, RMD commands) - "f" = rename file or directory (RNFR, RNTO commands) - "m" = create directory (MKD command) - "w" = store a file to the server (STOR, STOU commands)
- sudo apt-get update
- sudo apt-get install python-pip
- sudo apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev libffi-dev python-dev
- sudo pip install pyftpdlib
- sudo pip install cryptography
- sudo pip install pyopenssl
- sudo pip install pyyaml
- (If the ftps server is an EC2 instance, before running the script, we need to open some ports for ftp)
- In Amazon EC2 console, on the left, click on Security group.
- Select security group of the ec2 instance.
- Click on inbound tab and click edit.
- Add two tcp rules shown in the screenshot tcp.png
- Paste the upstart config file pyftplib.conf to /etc/init/ (it requires admin privilage to paste so use sudo).
- Make the script ftps.py and ftps.sh exucetable by the following command.
- chmod u+x ftps.py
- chmod u+x ftps.sh
sudo service pyftpdlib start
That’s it !! The ftps server is now ready !
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How to Run a Simple FTP Server
The easiest way to run an FTP server is with a Python script that starts a simple FTP server. This tutorial will show you how to do that.
There are two steps to running an FTP server:
- Configuring and starting the FTP server
- Opening up your firewall to allow connections to your FTP server
Configuring and Starting an FTP Server
First, SSH in to your server as root and install the Python pyftpdlib library.
On Ubuntu 20.04 and Ubuntu 22.04, use this command:
sudo apt-get install python3-pyftpdlib
On Ubuntu 14.04, 16.04, and 18.04, use this command:
sudo apt-get install python-pyftpdlib
Next, log out of your server as root. The rest of your steps should be done while logged in as your app’s system user.
Now, SSH into your server as your app’s system user and create a file named ftpserver.py in the user’s home directory. That is, create this file:
/srv/users/SYSUSER/ftpserver.py
In that file, put the following contents and change the name, password, and directory for the FTP user that are defined near the top of the file:
from pyftpdlib.authorizers import DummyAuthorizer from pyftpdlib.handlers import FTPHandler from pyftpdlib.servers import FTPServer # The port the FTP server will listen on. # This must be greater than 1023 unless you run this script as root. FTP_PORT = 2121 # The name of the FTP user that can log in. FTP_USER = "myuser" # The FTP user's password. FTP_PASSWORD = "change_this_password" # The directory the FTP user will have full read/write access to. FTP_DIRECTORY = "/srv/users/SYSUSER/apps/APPNAME/public/" def main(): authorizer = DummyAuthorizer() # Define a new user having full r/w permissions. authorizer.add_user(FTP_USER, FTP_PASSWORD, FTP_DIRECTORY, perm='elradfmw') handler = FTPHandler handler.authorizer = authorizer # Define a customized banner (string returned when client connects) handler.banner = "pyftpdlib based ftpd ready." # Optionally specify range of ports to use for passive connections. #handler.passive_ports = range(60000, 65535) address = ('', FTP_PORT) server = FTPServer(address, handler) server.max_cons = 256 server.max_cons_per_ip = 5 server.serve_forever() if __name__ == '__main__': main()
You can now start the FTP server.
On Ubuntu 20.04 and Ubuntu 22.04, use this command to start the server:
python3 /srv/users/SYSUSER/ftpserver.py >>/srv/users/SYSUSER/ftpserver.log 2>&1 &
On Ubuntu 14.04, 16.04, and 18.04, use this command to start the server:
python /srv/users/SYSUSER/ftpserver.py >>/srv/users/SYSUSER/ftpserver.log 2>&1 &
The above command will start the FTP server with a log file named ftpserver.log.
For more information on customizing this FTP server, see the pyftpdlib documentation.
You can verify your FTP server is running with the command:
netstat -npl --inet | grep 2121
Your output should look like this:
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:2121 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 29972/python
which shows your FTP server listening on port 2121.
To stop the FTP server, use the kill command with the FTP server processes’ PID, which you can find with this command:
ps -ef | grep ftpserver | grep -v grep | awk ''
Configuring Your Firewall to Allow FTP Server Access
Now that you’ve started your FTP server, you need to customize your server’s firewall to open up the port you ran your FTP server on. For example, if you used port 2121, you’d need to open port 2121 in your server’s firewall.
Additionally, if you uncommented the passive port range line in the above script to enable passive FTP, you also need to open ports 60000-65535 in your server’s firewall.
For information on how to do this, see our article on customizing your server’s firewall.
Starting Your FTP Server on Boot
To start your FTP server automatically when your server is rebooted, SSH in as your app’s system user and create a cron job like the following:
@reboot python /srv/users/SYSUSER/ftpserver.py >>/srv/users/SYSUSER/ftpserver.log 2>&1
How to create a FTP server with ftplib in python
Python has a one liner from which you can create a FTP server using ftplib.
First things first, let’s install the required dependency:
~/$ pip3 install pyftpdlib
Collecting pyftpdlib
Downloading pyftpdlib-1.5.6.tar.gz (188 kB)
|████████████████████████████████| 188 kB 6.4 MB/s
Building wheels for collected packages: pyftpdlib
Building wheel for pyftpdlib (setup.py) . done
Created wheel for pyftpdlib: filename=pyftpdlib-1.5.6-py3-none-any.whl size=125586 sha256=ef64dcea9ebb19497a7f9d91f8b084a321c3ef909b0f5e3470f2ec9ccd66b958
Stored in directory: /home/mickael/.cache/pip/wheels/54/9f/5f/50eae5deee54c11cd059c5bda2ebd7dcd461d81b5c89f50f75
Successfully built pyftpdlib
Installing collected packages: pyftpdlib
Successfully installed pyftpdlib-1.5.6
To serve the current directory via FTP:
~/$ python3 -m pyftpdlib -w —user=username —password=password
[I 2021-12-14 22:48:48] concurrency model: async
[I 2021-12-14 22:48:48] masquerade (NAT) address: None
[I 2021-12-14 22:48:48] passive ports: None
[I 2021-12-14 22:48:48] >>> starting FTP server on 0.0.0.0:2121, pid=1070306 [I 2021-12-14 22:49:04] 127.0.0.1:36230-[] FTP session opened (connect)
[I 2021-12-14 22:49:08] 127.0.0.1:36230-[username] USER ‘username’ logged in.
To make sure everything is running fine:
~/$ curl —user username:password ftp://127.0.0.1:2121/
drwxr-xr-x 10 mickael mickael 4096 Nov 22 08:29 Documents
drwxr-xr-x 3 mickael mickael 16384 Dec 14 06:35 Downloads
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