For the past couple of hours I've been meddling around with vsftpd and pro-ftpd and Apache (for WebDav) and I find that there is not one program which can simply be run from the cmd and automatically provide read-only access to the server. I am having a huge headache and the documentation provided isn't really helpful (but Apache tries with the errors).
I would really appreciate it if someone could point me to something that helps.
TIA.
Edit:- I don't want to be able to edit anything and I want to have the whole system exposed via FTP. I have no concerns about security regarding this server.
Edit2:- I finally managed to get it to work with vsftpd, apparently the problem I've been having is that when I used the default and the anonymous accounts, they displayed only var/www/ftp so I created a new account with adduser ftpuser -d / ((and something from /etc/shells)) and this allowed that user account FTP access to the whole system, what I intended to do. Thanks for all the answers, and I'll leave this thread open if someone remembers or knows the full command I used.
Edit3:- usermod --home /var/www/ username from https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/94603/limit-ftp-access-only-to-the-var-www-with-vsftpd might work (or in this case usermod --home / username)
