Single on Details... https://www.deepreflect.net/tags/single/ Recent content in Single on Details... Hugo en-US Copyright © 2003 - 2026 Leonardo Rizzi Tue, 30 Jun 2026 03:28:29 +0200 ProFTP(D) - listen on single ip https://www.deepreflect.net/2009/12/02/proftpd-listen-on-single-ip/ Wed, 02 Dec 2009 07:19:58 +0000 http://blog.deepreflect.net/?p=759 <p>I don&rsquo;t use ftp, but wordpress comes with this nice feature to upgrade plugins automatically from the web admin interface that needs ftp.</p> <p>the problem is I don&rsquo;t want to enable the ftp service and make it available to the rest of the world just for that.</p> <p>So I needs the following two options in proftpd.conf:</p> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;-webkit-text-size-adjust:none;"><code class="language-fallback" data-lang="fallback"><span style="display:flex;"><span>DefaultAddress 127.0.0.1 </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>SocketBindTight on </span></span></code></pre></div><p>Now restart proftpd and you&rsquo;re done.</p> I don’t use ftp, but wordpress comes with this nice feature to upgrade plugins automatically from the web admin interface that needs ftp.

the problem is I don’t want to enable the ftp service and make it available to the rest of the world just for that.

So I needs the following two options in proftpd.conf:

DefaultAddress 127.0.0.1
SocketBindTight                 on

Now restart proftpd and you’re done.

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