How to get FTP working on Fedora 9

[basil60]

I'll prefix all this with I'm a Noob.
Installed Fedora 9 on a machine at home to run as a server. Thought I asked the installation to include FTP.
Told the Fedora firewall to trust ports21,22, 80 plus some others I need.
From my LAN, I ran a port scanner , that shows port 21 is not open. Told my router to send requests on port21 to the machine on my LAN (192.168.1.103).
Any suggestions on how to get FTP working as a server on that machine so I can upload files remotely for Apache?

Cheers

[rituraj.goswami]

do the following in the terminal

service vsftpd status
iif it tell you that it's not running run it using
service vsftpd start

[basil60]

Thanks...that has the ftp server running.
But, if I try and connect from my LAN using FileZilla, I get " 530 Permission denied.
Error: Could not connect to server".
I tried connecting to the external IP - not my internal IP.
I told my router that port21 should be redirected in Virtual server, and now port scanning still shows its open.
Any suggestions please?

[basil60]

I was trying to use root, so I can now access it from my LAN anyway.
But I want the user to be able to access the var directories to upload files for Apache.
I tried adding group 48 to the users group, but it still doesn't allow access.
IS there any secuirty issue with changing the home directory to something under /var/www/html????