source: extensions/net.sf.basedb.ftp/trunk/README @ 987

== Requirements ==

 1. BASE 2.10.0 or later.
 
== Introduction ==

This package is an extension package to BASE that installs a small FTP
server as part of the web server. It uses the Apache FTP Server library 
for the actual handling of the FTP protcol.

 * The homepage for this extension: 
   http://baseplugins.thep.lu.se/wiki/net.sf.basedb.ftp
 * The Apache FTP server site: 
   http://mina.apache.org/ftpserver/index.html

== Installation ==

 1. Download the `base-ftpserver-*.tar.gz` file.
 2. Unpack the downloaded file to a directory of your choice.
 3. Copy the `ftp-config.xml` file to `WEB-INF/classes` directory.
 4. The default `ftp-config.xml` file creates a regular FTP service with the
    control connection on port 2121. There is also an example of an
    SSL-enabled configuration. For more information about configuration 
    options see: http://mina.apache.org/ftpserver/documentation.html  
 5. Copy the `base-ftpserver.jar` file and the `lib` directory, including sub-
    directories and files, to your BASE extensions directory, `WEB-INF/extensions`.
 6. Run the `Extensions -> Manual scan` command to install the extension. If you
    have enabled automatic installation, just sit back and wait for it to find
    the FTP server extension.
 7. The FTP Server should now be running, but it only allows the root user to
    login. To enable other users to login you have to start an FTP client, connect 
    to your BASE FTP server and login as root. This will register the FTP server 
    as a new client application that is shared to `Everyone`. To limit which users 
    that can access the FTP server go to `Adminstrate -> Clients` and change the 
    sharing options for the FTP Server.
 8. Done.

== Known issues ==

 * BASE allows that a directory has the same name as a file. This may confuse
   FTP clients since that is normally not allowed. The result for certain 
   operations is undefined for files and directories that has the same name.

== Tips and tricks ==

 * If you want to try out an SSL enabled FTP server, but doesn't have
   a certificate, you may create one with the following command:
   
   `keytool -genkey -keystore test.jks -storetype JKS -storepass test -keypass test  -alias test`

== Compiling ==

To compile this package you also need:
 
 1. Ant 1.6
 2. Java 1.6

Follow these instructions:

 1. Download the source code from the subversion repository. See
    http://baseplugins.thep.lu.se/wiki/net.sf.basedb.ftp for instructions.
 
 2. Type `ant download-lib` to automatically download the BASE core JAR file that
    are neeed for compilation. You can also do this manually by copying the 
    BASE2Core.jar and BASE2Webclient.jar from the BASE installation directory 
    (`<basedir>/www/WEB-INF/lib/`) to the `./lib/compile` directory.

 3. Type `ant` to compile the code and generate the `base-ftpserver.jar` file
    in the project directory.

 4. Use `ant package` to create a downloadable tar.gz package.
 
Tip: If you need different values for any of the properties defined in
the 'build.xml' file, create a file named 'build.properties' and set
the values there.