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Q: How do you install CrushFTP as a service or daemon on Windows or OS X?

A: From the File menu, choose the item to install the daemon / service.

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Q: How do you install CrushFTP as a daemon on Linux?

A: Each Linux distro has its own way of handling startup items. Refer to your distro's documentation on how to add a reference to a script for starting CrushFTP.

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Q: The Windows service seems to be running, but when I open the GUI, I get an error about ports being in use, and to remove and reinstall the service.

A: First, try removing the service and reinstalling. If that doesn't fix things, this is how you can reset everything.

Open the crush GUI. Go to manage servers. Remove all items in there, and click OK.

If you don't have any server items listening on "lookup" or listening on "127.0.0.1", then open your server prefs, add a new server item on port 8080, sharing users and groups from another server item.

Set its IP to be "127.0.0.1" instead of "lookup".

Click OK.

Now install the service again.

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Q: Is it possible to run the server on ports below 1024 and not run as root on a Linux/Unix system?

A: Yes. Use the built in firewall to setup a port rewrite.

sudo iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -d 192.168.0.5 -m tcp --dport 21  -j DNAT --to 192.168.0.5:2121

sudo iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING  -p tcp -s 192.168.0.5 -m tcp --sport 2020 -j SNAT --to 192.168.0.5:20

If you do change the source port to 2020, add an entry into the prefs.xml specifying this. The entry goes in the individual server_item you want the source port changed on.

<source_port>60020</source_port>

Alternatively you may just want this:

sudo iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -m tcp --dport 21 -j REDIRECT --to-ports 2121

Then just run CrushFTP on port 2121 instead.

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