On CentOS 7 you try to FTP to your freshly installed Virtualmin server by doing this:
user@hostname ~ $ ftp cp01.vander.host ftp: connect: No route to host
The message doesn’t make sense because::
- There is a route to that host because you can
pingit - This is a fresh server. FTP should be working.
It appears that some later versions of CentOS + Virtualmin combo uses FirewallD which doesn’t accommodate port 21 by default. To fix the problem:
Root to server, and do this:
firewall-cmd --permanent --add-port=21/tcp firewall-cmd --reload
You could also try doing this using the Virtualmin GUI but if that’s problematic ie. freezing it could be because Root user PID 1 is hogging SystemD.
But using above method means that FTP should work:
user@hostname ~ $ ftp servername.com Connected to host.domain.com. 220 FTP Server ready. Name (servername.com): username 331 Password required for username Password: 230 User username logged in Remote system type is UNIX. Using binary mode to transfer files. ftp> cd public_html
References:
https://virtualmin.com/node/59372
https://www.liquidweb.com/kb/how-to-start-and-enable-firewalld-on-centos-7/
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Hello, it helped me a lot. I could not connect by FTP, but SFTP was working fine. And boom, FTP starts to connect again, as have to. Thank you a lot!