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Proftpd virtualmin 550 Overwrite permission denied

Written by Peter Davies on .

We had an issue on a couple of servers where we couldn't overwrite existing files in an FTP directory for a given virtualhost within virtualmin. The error reported

Status:	Connected
Status:	File transfer successful, transferred 879 bytes in 2 seconds
Status:	Starting upload of C:\Users\000\Desktop\newfile.php
Command:	PASV
Response:	227 Entering Passive Mode (xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx,5).
Command:	STOR newfile.php
Response:	550 newfile.php: Overwrite permission denied
Error:	Critical file transfer error

We found a fix which was to place in the file nano /etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf the value AllowOverwrite on below the DefaultRoot ~

DefaultRoot ~
AllowOverwrite on

After which you need to restart the proftpd service using: /etc/init.d/proftpd restart