I have been running Virtualmin for quite a few months now and appreciate the time it has saved me with setting up and managing domains.
I just had a client email me that FTP was not working. I checked for myself and it was not working. It had been working fine previously, and the only things that I have done are the updates, both to virtualmin and to CentOS. I don't remember if there was an update to FTP or the firewall or not. It may be the firewall, due to the fact that I get the error, Connection refused. There is no info in the logs, which is what makes me suspect the firewall. I haven't changed the firewall.
I looked around and wasn't really able to find anything that may help me. I did look at the firewall rules and ftp and ftpdata are there, so that should not be a problem. Where do I look, what do I look for? Please help.
Thanks
Shanon
Active FTP also requires high ports to be open, not just ftp and ftpdata ports.
I usually just open up the firewall for all high ports (everything above 1023), but you could also use the stateful features of iptables to accept all RELATED and ESTABLISHED connections.
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Thanks for the help Joe. I added a related and existing rule to the incoming section. This rule was already valid for the outgoing connections. It still doesn't work. I applied the new configuration and tried to ftp in, but no luck.
I checked the messages log, and there isn't anything in there stating that I even tried to connect, but I am still getting connection refused.
I will try a reboot. Shouldn't need to, but I can.
This server is directly connected to a hub, which is connected to the modem, so there is no router in the way.
Any other suggestions?
Thanks!
Shanon