On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 1:30 PM, ben crook <[email protected]> wrote: > i am using the apache ftp server on windows for my app dev. in the > user.properties file , i am having difficulty setting the user home dir > > I need to be able to modify this home dir variable in the user.properties > file within my windows app. I currently take a user defined path in my app > such as "C:\users\john\desktop" and that would be the root for the apache > user home dir. I tried setting the user.properties file to > > ftpserver.user.admin.homedirectory=C:\users\john\desktop > > and > > ftpserver.user.admin.homedirectory="C:\users\john\desktop" > > but neither would work.
\ is used for character escaping in Java properties files, so you'll need something like ftpserver.user.admin.homedirectory=C:\\users\\john\\desktop /niklas
