This doesn’t necessarily secure your server, but it obscures it and makes it harder to find.

Under “General settings” you’ll see “Listen on these ports.” It should currently be on 21, but we recommend changing it to a random five digit number (nothing over 65535). To avoid being detected by the thousands of hackers constantly scanning for people like you with an FTP server, we can change the port that FileZilla listens on. Hackers will constantly scan the internet for hosts listening on port 21, the default FTP port. Securing Your FTP ServerĪlong with configuring the user(s) with a strong password, there are a few settings within FileZilla that you can configure to further secure your new FTP server. To give the user further permissions, such as the ability to copy files to this repository, check the boxes beneath ‘Files’ and ‘Directories.’Ĭlick OK once you’re done setting the user permissions. By default, the user we’ve created is able to read files, list directories, and list subdirectories. Now we need to assign the user permissions for this repository. Once you’ve done that, a window like the one below will pop up, use it to select the directory you would like to share as an FTP repository.Ĭlick OK. Once there, click on “Add” underneath “Users.” Enter the username for an account that another computer will be using to access the repository we’re setting up.Ĭlick OK once you’re done entering the account name, and then click on “Add” underneath the “Shared folders” section. On the left side of the window that comes up, click on “Shared folders.”

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