This will open the FileZilla options as shown below. Click on the Edit menu and select Settings. You can also see the FileZilla Server icon that was created upon completing the setup. Click on close to close the setup wizard.

In the startup settings, I go with the default settings as shown below. In the next window, select to start Filezilla Server after the setup completes. When you purchase through our links we may earn a commission. We select and review products independently. It should ask you for your password, and then you will be able to browse to the FTP share as if it were a local hard drive. Now that the FTP server is completely set up, we can have other people connect to it with the user information we provide them also make sure you have allowed their IP address. Type in the port you have chosen for your FTP server to run on default is 21, but in this guide we chose Click next three times after entering your port number. There is a default Autoban setting already configured in FileZilla, so anyone who tries connecting to your server too many times within a short period will be locked out for a while. Just remember that anyone determined to hack you will eventually find the port your FTP server is listening on, so further measures must be taken.įor example, the following screenshot shows a configuration in which Along with secure passwords, that should be about all the security your FTP server will need. 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.

Along 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. Now we need to assign the user permissions for this repository.

Filezilla ftp server setup guide