Take the 2-minute tour ×  The goal: when a local user logs in to
ftp, the user is directed to /home/{username}/htdocs. The
expectation is that FileZilla or equivalent will show / and the
contents of /home/{username}/htdocs below Like this:   The
closest I can get is to see / as /home/{username} and then its
contents below.   I have tried multiple variations on the
configurations suggested by all the postings on vsftpd but none
seem to get me where I want to go. Either one can't get there
from here or I'm missing something.  I've pared vsftpd.conf to a
minimum:   With /etc/vsftp/users containing a file named
{username} containing   This doesn't get me where I want to go.
So, what am I missing?  [Note: this is in anticipation of no
result to my question about proftpd earlier]    share|improve
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accepted  The answer is to install an earlier version of vsftpd!
I had originally just done an install of vsftpd and got versison
2.3.5. When I got the OOPS messag