vsftp Error -203: miscellaneous error occurred while trying to login to the host

Your ftp user needs to have a home directory. 


Try creating your user this way instead:

sudo useradd -d /home/ftpusername -m ftpusername

sudo passwd ftpusername


Ps. If you need to delete your existing user, use:

sudo userdel ftpusername

Upload with CyberDuck causing Internal Server Error

I was getting the following error when trying to add a new file to my server with CyberDuck

"Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@blahblahblahblah.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request."

When I took a closer look at my logs, I saw the error:

Blah blah blah is writeable by group

So then I realised the way to resolve this is:

In CyberDuck:

1. Right click on your file. Find the menu item 'info.' Click on it.

2. Change your file's permissions to 644.

Done

Connecting to SCP with Filezilla

Use "sftp://" as a prefix to your 'host'

For example:

To connect to 'myserver.com' use 'sftp://myserver.com'

I generally use this approach in Ubuntu/Linux

Sending Files Via Putty

Firstly pscp is needed. It can be grabbed here: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html


Then.. for quick reference (from the command prompt):
pscp file.txt username@hostname:/directory/subdirectory/etc/file.txt