Change FTP Port

This article provides a step-by-step guide on how to change the FTP port on a VPS or Dedicated server using PureFTPd.

It advises accessing your server via SSH and locating the PureFTPd configuration file. Once found, the article instructs you to modify the port number in the configuration file, ensuring it doesn't conflict with other services.

Overall, the article aims to help you easily and effectively change the FTP port on your server.

Change FTP Port

IMPORTANT: This solution will require root access. If this needs to be obtained, follow the guide on requesting root access.

1. Access your server via SSH as the root user or using the Terminal in Root WHM
2. Confirm the desired port is not in use by running this command on the server, replacing the ## with the desired port number

   netstat -nlp | grep :##

3. Open the port in the firewall
4. Restart the firewall if you didn't do so in Step 3
5. Edit the /etc/pure-ftpd.conf file
   1. This can be edited with nano, vim, or your preferred terminal text editor if it is installed
      EXAMPLE: nano /etc/pure-ftpd.conf
6. Find the line where it says Bind 21
   1. If using the previous example of nano, you can press Control+W to search and type bind to find this quickly
7. Edit that line to replace 21 with the new port
8. Save the file
   1. If you used nano, you would save with Control+O then enter and exit with Control+X then enter
9. Restart PureFTPd with the following command
   

   service pure-ftpd restart

10. Check that it is listening on the new port with the following command

    netstat -nlp | grep ftpd