: 550 “Overwrite permission denied” when editing a file via FTP DreamHost recently moved my accounts to a new shared box, and now I can't edit files via UltraEdit's built in FTP client, which

@Berumen354

I found this thread as a proftpd user without access to the proftpd.conf . As a user you can also change the overwrite policy by creating a .ftpaccess in your directory. See www.proftpd.org/docs/howto/ftpaccess.html

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@Angie530

I have just found a solution to this problem:


Find the following line in /etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf:



Set off to disable IPv6 support which is annoying on IPv4 only boxes.
UseIPv6 on



Switch this to off
Restart the server

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@Jennifer507

As of today, I am still experiencing the same problem with DreamHost FTP. And every time DH support rest FTP server, the problem re-appears after a few hours.

Solution: Use SFTP on port 22. It works for me so far.

Edit: sorry for the confusion, I am not the thread owner. But this is a well known issue among Dreamhost.com users and I just try to post a solution in case someone stumble on this thread from google(like I did).

reference link: discussion.dreamhost.com/thread-132172.html
This is the respond I got from dreamhost support:


Hello,

I am so sorry for the problems! I've seen a recurring issue where
files cannot be over-written on the server (it doesn't affect new
files, just files that are already there).

I have restarted the FTP service on your server and it is working now,
but if you see this problem again, please let me know!

Thanks! E- L

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@Harper822

Overwrite permission denied suggests that DreamHost forgot to enable AllowOverwrite on the new server, which means you can't edit existing files, only upload new ones.

To fix it yourself, add the following lines to the .htaccess file in your root directory. You'll have to open the existing .htaccess file if there is one, copy the contents to your clipboard, then delete the file and create a new one with the same contents plus the lines below, because you won't be able to edit the current .htaccess file directly.

<Directory /*>
AllowOverwrite on
</Directory>


Or you could email DreamHost and ask them to enable AllowOverwrite server-wide. You're probably not the only one having this problem.

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