Net::FT...::Server(3)

💖 NAME 💖

okay so bestie, meet Net::FTPServer::Proxy::Server — it's a proxy FTP server ✨

(it lives in the Net::FTPServer::Proxy::Server family of man pages, in case you were wondering where you wandered into 🦋)

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

like, this is literally how you run it:

proxy-ftpd.pl [-d] [-v] [-p port] [-s] [-S] [-V] [-C conf_file]

that's the whole vibe. copy it, love it, respect it 💅

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

so Net::FTPServer::Proxy::Server is a "reverse proxy" FTP server, which just forwards requests through to another FTP server. no cap. it doesn't do anything to them, it just… passes them along 🫶

and bestie, you can use it for firewalls, for example. it's giving very much "i'm the middleman and i'm thriving" 😌

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✨ CONFIGURATION ✨

okay real talk, here's the tea ☕

Net::FTPServer::Proxy::Server can only proxy to one FTP server for each virtual host. in other words — and i need you to hear me on this — it does not make remote servers appear as subdirectories or anything like that, since the FTP authentication protocol makes this very hard 😭

you will need to start the FTP server using the proxy-ftpd.pl script. periodt.

🌈 proxying a single server

to proxy a single server, you need this global configuration file entry:

proxy to: hostname [port]

simple. iconic. no notes 💅

🦋 proxying multiple servers

to proxy multiple servers using IP-based virtual hosts, use:

enable virtual hosts: 1

<Host proxy.bob.example.com>
  ip: 1.2.3.4
  proxy to: hostname1 [port]
</Host>

<Host proxy.bob.example.com>
  ip: 1.2.3.5
  proxy to: hostname2 [port]
</Host>

look at those hosts. they're eating. 🔥

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💅 METHODS 💅

okay so… not me opening this section and finding absolutely nothing in it 😭 the original page lists the heading and then just moves right along. no methods here, bestie. that's the whole section. we respect it anyway 🫶

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

Richard Jones (rich@annexia.org). 💖

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⭐ COPYRIGHT ⭐

Copyright (C) 2003 Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>

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🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

• Net::FTPServer(3).

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and that's the page, bestie 🎀 this lil beauty comes to you from perl v5.42.0, dated 2025-07-25, and it's from the User Contributed Perl Documentation collection — go forth and proxy responsibly ✨💜