After setting up an FTP server, you need to create a folder structure for the server. By default, the FTP server will have a root folder with the following path: C:\inetpub\ftproot.
The FTP root folder acts as the root for your FTP server in the same way that C:\inetpub\wwwroot is the root for your Web server.
You must create the physical folders where the files will reside. This can either be a subfolder of the FTP root or another folder elsewhere on the computer. Then, you create a virtual root, or alias, that the FTP server will use to point to the physical directory in which files will reside.
To configure an FTP folder and virtual root
Create a new folder to hold files. You can name the folder anything you like. For example, name the new folder ExampleFtpFiles, so that the path of the folder is C:\inetpub\ftproot\ExampleFtpFiles.
In Windows, from the Administrative Tools menu, select Internet Information Services.
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In Windows XP, you can also right-click
My Computer in the Start menu or on the desktop, and then click Manage. In the Computer Management dialog box, open the Services and Applications node.
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Open the node for your computer, and then open the FTP Sites node.
Right-click the Default FTP Site node, click New, and then click Virtual Directory.
In the Virtual Directory Creation Wizard, specify an alias (or name) that users can use to get to the FTP folder that you created in step 1. The name can be anything you like. It is often least confusing to use the directory name as the alias name, so that the virtual directory might be called ExampleFtpFiles.
For the path, type or browse to the path of the directory from step 1, for example Inetpub\ftproot\ExampleFtpFiles.
For Access Permissions, specify Read, and then click Next to finish with the wizard.
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Do not enable
Write permissions unless you understand how to secure your IIS FTP server. For more information, see the topic titled "Securing FTP Sites" in the IIS Technical Reference.
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