Error - "550 Permission denied on FTP operation" - Linux
If you are unable to do some FTP operations namely delete and create either through ftp client or through code like in php using ftp_delete or ftp_mkdir functions, follow below steps to resolve it. Edit /etc/vsftpd.conf file as below sudo gedit /etc/vsftpd.conf (or) sudo nano /etc/vsftpd.conf Uncomment the following configuration in the file write_enable=YES Save the file and restart the FTP service as below sudo service vsftpd restart (or) systemctl restart vsftpd