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Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
>>> What I would really like is some quick and easy way to create multiple
>>> "document roots" with vsftpd, even if it means cranking up multiple
>>> instances of it.
> 
> This is a missing functionality in vsftpd in the first place, of course,
> but setting up vsftpd is still a *lot* easier + faster than doing the
> same with apache.

Yes and no.
Alias directives in Apache are pretty easy to set up ;)
(granted, mod_rewrite is voodoo)

>> You can't.
>> And you can't do name-based virtual hosting with FTP, only IP based
>> virtual hosting.
> 
> Yes I can do. Open your mind ;)
> 
> It is easy to run one vfstpd per port, on the same IP address. Which is
> about the same as running one per IP address on the same port as far as
> "virtual hosting" (haha) is concerned. My interest isn't in virtual
> hosts anyway, but in directory mapping:

Aaah, ok. Sorry, my bad. I implied vhosting.

Running FTP on non-standard ports isn't a very good idea though - IMHO.

>   /usr/dir1/  -> ftp://../dir1/
>   /data/suse/   -> ftp://../suse/
>   /disk/big/  -> ftp://../big/

Ok. Yeah, that sucks with all FTP daemons except ProFTPd.
AFAICR, ProFTPd has directory mapping configuration directives, pretty
much like Apache's aliases. OTOH, the use of ProFTPd isn't really
encouraged -- vsftpd has a much better security record.
Didn't check pure-ftpd recently.

- From what I've tried to do with it, vsftpd is not very flexible wrt
directory mapping. One base directory for anonymous, period.

> It's not so difficult to support this via init.d runlevel script, and
> I'm thinking of implementing it.

How would you do that with vsftpd ?

> Alternatively I can arrange my disks to suit vsftpd, which I'm not going
> to do, or use mount --bind.

mount --bind is an option (too bad hard links don't work across
partitions, but mount --bind does pretty much the same, even though it's
limited to directories, but that's something everyone can live with, I
guess).

Sorry, I don't understand how you'd want to configure such directory
mappings with vsftpd (and without mount --bind) ... ?

cheers
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