Anonymous FTP is the ability to upload and/or download files from a server without having a login username and password. Obviously, for security reasons, we only allow anonymous FTP to specific directories.

After anonymous FTP is setup, it will create a directory called $domain-anonftp in the user's home directory. This directory will by default contain the following directories:

/bin
/dev
/etc
/lib
/pub

The only directory that is used is the "pub" directory. This is where the user should put files that they want to have visitors anonymously download. Vistors can access this directory via a browser by going to:

ftp://$domain.com/pub

Note, we do not allow clients the ability to allow users to both upload and download to the same directory. We do this for security reasons. The client is responsible for moving files from the incoming directory to the pub directory if they wish for uploaded files to be later downloaded. To get an incoming directory, contact support.

The incoming directory would be:

ftp://$domain.com/incoming

This directory is writable from the web but NOT readable. No one coming in from the web (or from an FTP program logging in as "anonymous") can see what files are stored here.