Jeff Mincey
03-15-2008, 12:02 PM
Google's Blogger.com optionally will publish its pages to other servers and domains via FTP or SFTP. I've tried to get this to work with my CentOS-based VPS, but invariably it fails.
For one thing, I must confess it's not clear to me what process is supporting FTP to begin with (by default in these CentOS VPS's). Even without the ProFTP daemon or the WU-FTP server set up, and even without the vsftpd service running, I'm able nonetheless to SFTP into the VPS -- but exactly which process supports this is beyond me. When I list all running processes by means of ps -auxf and then grep for ftp, I come up empty.
Apart from that, however, I've tried to configure vsftpd to support a specific user account and I provide Google's Blogger with those account credentials but it fails to authenticate every time.
If anyone has experience with this or knows whether Google has some eccentric FTP requirements, please advise.
For one thing, I must confess it's not clear to me what process is supporting FTP to begin with (by default in these CentOS VPS's). Even without the ProFTP daemon or the WU-FTP server set up, and even without the vsftpd service running, I'm able nonetheless to SFTP into the VPS -- but exactly which process supports this is beyond me. When I list all running processes by means of ps -auxf and then grep for ftp, I come up empty.
Apart from that, however, I've tried to configure vsftpd to support a specific user account and I provide Google's Blogger with those account credentials but it fails to authenticate every time.
If anyone has experience with this or knows whether Google has some eccentric FTP requirements, please advise.