Sachin, I have opened the port 21 and 20 on my server.
I am able to use the Apache FTP server by using the following settings in: 'users.properties' ftpserver.user.admin.userpassword=12345 ftpserver.user.admin.homedirectory=./res/home ftpserver.user.admin.enableflag=true ftpserver.user.admin.writepermission=true ftpserver.user.admin.maxloginnumber=0 ftpserver.user.admin.maxloginperip=0 ftpserver.user.admin.idletime=0 ftpserver.user.admin.uploadrate=0 ftpserver.user.admin.downloadrate=0 ftpserver.user.anonymous.userpassword= ftpserver.user.anonymous.homedirectory=./res/home ftpserver.user.anonymous.enableflag=true ftpserver.user.anonymous.writepermission=false ftpserver.user.anonymous.maxloginnumber=20 ftpserver.user.anonymous.maxloginperip=2 ftpserver.user.anonymous.idletime=300 ftpserver.user.anonymous.uploadrate=4800 ftpserver.user.anonymous.downloadrate=4800 Create a file : 'ftpd-Custom.xml' at <ftpServerBaseDirectory>/res/conf/ Add the following content in it: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <server xmlns="http://mina.apache.org/ftpserver/spring/v1" xmlns:beans="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation=" http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd http://mina.apache.org/ftpserver/spring/v1 http://mina.apache.org/ftpserver/ftpserver-1.0.xsd " id="myServer"> <listeners> <nio-listener name="default" port="21" implicit-ssl="false"> <data-connection idle-timeout="60"> <passive ports="20" address="XX.XXX.XXX.XX" external-address="XXX.XX.XXX.XXX"/> </data-connection> </nio-listener> </listeners> <file-user-manager file="./res/conf/users.properties" encrypt-passwords="false" /> </server> Start your server using the following command: ./bin/ftpd.sh res/conf/ftpd-Custom.xml After following above procedure, try reconnecting from firefox. Also reply the status message in server logs if above doesn't work. -- Ashish -----Original Message----- From: Sachin Shetty [mailto:sshe...@egnyte.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 1:21 PM To: ftpserver-users@mina.apache.org Subject: RE: Browsing ftp from a browser What browser are you using? >>Firefox - it works for other ftp servers Are you sure you have enabled the ftp port on the host server's firewall? >> Yes, I am able to ftp using FileZilla -----Original Message----- From: Sharma, Ashish [mailto:ashish.shar...@hp.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 12:29 PM To: ftpserver-users@mina.apache.org Subject: RE: Browsing ftp from a browser Sachin, Answer the following: What browser are you using? Are you sure you have enabled the ftp port on the host server's firewall? Thanks Ashish -----Original Message----- From: Sachin Shetty [mailto:sshe...@egnyte.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 10:57 AM To: ftpserver-users@mina.apache.org Subject: Browsing ftp from a browser Hi, I found that I could not browse the ftp server running Apache FTP Server using a browser. Is there something else we need to enable? Thanks Sachin