On Mar 12, 2012, at 5:15 PM, jiechenable1987@gmail.com wrote:

Dear Nate,

Sorry to trouble you. I know that you are busy, but this problem has annoyed me for couple days. Please help.

I want to enable uploading via ftp for my local Galaxy instance. I followed the instructions under the wiki page strictly. However it doesn't work.

What i did: 1) set the directive "ftp_upload_dir = /home/jjc25/central/galaxy-central/database/ftp/" in the universe_wsgi.ini 2)set the directive "ftp_upload_site = 127.0.0.1" 3)created the database user galaxyftp and granted select access to it 4)copied and pasted the proftpd configuration file on the page (http://wiki.g2.bx.psu.edu/Admin/Config/Upload%20via%20FTP) and only modified the directive "SQLConnectInfo galaxydb@dbserver.example.org dbuser dbpassword" to my own settings, which is "SQLConnectInfo galaxydb@localhost galaxyftp mypassword" 6)restart proftpd by "sudo service proftpd restart" -> here comes the error: "Fatal: unknown configuration directive 'SQLPasswordEngine' on line 43 of '/etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf'

I can't restart the ftp server because some unknown reasons. Can you help me out please. A lot of thanks.

By the way, i am using the copy of Galaxy with id : changeset: 6818:48b64ce958b4

Look forward to your reply.

Thanks, JIE CHEN

Hi Jie, It looks like your ProFTPd server does not include the mod_sql_passwd module. We compile ours by hand, so I can't tell you whether or not any of the prepackaged versions for Linux have a way to install a precompiled version of that module. I do see that there is not a separate package for proftpd-mod-sqlpasswd (or similar) in Debian, but that you might be able to build it if you install proftpd-dev. I've updated the wiki page to include information about how we compile ProFTPd. Please send questions to the mailing list rather than directly to individual people on the team. There are others who may be able to answer your question in a timelier manner (and the community as a whole can benefit from the public response). --nate