Wednesday, 7 March 2007

Know About the ftp Server Written in PHP

Justin Silverton, in a new post over his blog talks about nanoFTPD, an ftp server written in PHP. He says, it is an ftp daemon written in PHP as of version 4.2.0. PHP supports the command-line interface (stable since 4.3.0), which nanoFTPd relies on. nanoFTPd is modular, so it’s easy to add custom modules and other stuff, like different database interfaces.

He guides you on configuring and installing this server. He says, before running nanoFTPD, you have to change variables in config.php and change the first line of nanoftpd.php to the path of your PHP binary. He explains that installing is straightforward. You only have to copy the whole directory (with subdirectories) into a directory of your choice; for example /usr/share/nanoftpd.

He lists the following requirements to set it up:

• PHP 4.2.0 or above
• A database server (MySQL or POSTGRES)
• PHP extension: CLI
• PHP extension: sockets
• PHP extension: POSIX
• For best performance, compile php with –disable-cgi

• User authentication via a database/textfile
• MySQL + POSGRESQL support
• Passive mode
• Dynamic IP support
• Basic FTP commands
• Logging