I was tasked with configuring VSFTPD to allow SFTP or FTPES (FTP over explicit TLS/SSL) tonight for a client. The configuration already had regular FTP working which I verified using FileZilla as an FTP client. I was able to login and transfer files in both directions to and from the server. Next I verified that SFTP worked without issue and I was able to also transfer files in both directions using SFTP. For FTPES I had to make some changes and once I did make the changes I was still getting an error when attempting to do a directory listing using FileZilla. Below I describe the initial changes I made to vsftpd.conf, the errors I received attempting to connect with FTPES, and the way I resolved the problem.
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I was messing around with the CPAN the Perl world wide archive of resources earlier today and it was asking for the default location of ncftpget. By default this is no longer installed on CentOS so you will first need to install the EPEL repository and then install NCFTP using yum. Follow the directions below to install ncftp which includes ncftpput, ncftpget, ncftpbatch, ncftpspooler, and more.

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I have used the NextGen Gallery WordPress plugin on a bunch of different projects and have always been satisfied with the functionality. On a recent WordPress project I was working on I installed NextGen Gallery assuming I would use it however after I got a bit further on the project I decided it wasn’t necessary and that it would be easier to simply use the default WordPress media uploading capabilities along with the “Lightbox 2″ and the “Flexible Upload D3Z Edition” WordPress plugins instead. While NextGen gallery has tons of functionality and typically is easy to use for this project there would be many authors and I needed the path of least resistance to allow authors to write articles.

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I recently had a laptop hard drive crash and needed to try and recover numerous items including a bunch of FTP sites I had configured for the FileZilla FTP client. The first task was locating the site configuration file on my Windows XP laptop and then understanding how to import the sites to another computer. The site configuration file is named sitemanager.xml and below is the location of this file on Windows XP and on Windows Vista.

FileZilla Site Configuration File Location:
Windows XP:C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Application Data\FileZilla\sitemanager.xml
Windows Vista:  C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\FileZilla\sitemanager.xml

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I received the below error during the process of a ZenCart shopping cart upgrade. The error was noticed when navigating through the ZenCart store admin via a web browser. I wanted to post a resolution because I wasn’t able to locate the exact resolution to my answer online and it took me awhile to locate the issue. Most of the resolutions I located on the Internet talked about modifying the post_max_size or other options located in the php.ini file however no matter what I changed these to I ended up receiving the same error.

Error: PHP Fatal error:  Allowed memory size of 25165824 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 491520 bytes) in /path/to/file

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