Now install ProFTPD using the following command. Now EPEL repository is added to your server, execute the following command to update existing packages. The ProFTPD package is not included in the default YUM repository of CentOS, hence you will need to add EPEL (Extra Package for Enterprise Linux) repository to your server. In this tutorial we will be using root user account to execute the commands, if you are not logged in as root user then use sudo command before all the commands that we are going to run, or you can also use su command to login to root user account. In addition to that you will also need to have root access to your server. The only requirement to install ProFTPD is that you should have VPS or Dedicated server with CentOS 7.x installed.

In this tutorial we will learn to install ProFTPD server on CentOS 7.x, we will also learn to secure the traffic using SSL/TLS and enabling anonymous users in server. ProFTPD is used by many popular websites like SourceForge, Samba, Harvard etc. ProFTPD provides you ability to secure your FTP connection using SSL/TLS. FTP data transmission are not secured as the traffic is not encrypted, all the data which is incoming or outgoing is in clear text format. FTP services gives you ability to quickly upload and download the content to your web servers, you can also manage files and folders on your server using FTP. It is highly configurable and the configuration of ProFTPD is performed in a single main configuration file. ProFTPD comes with a lot of features which are not present in other FTP servers. File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is the most popular way of uploading files to a server. ProFTPD is a very popular and secure open source FTP server. Want your very own server? Get our 1GB memory, Xeon V4, 25GB SSD VPS for £10.00 / month.

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