Sharing Documents Between Serversftpd and httpd
It's convenient, and often a requirement due to limited space, to serve the same hierarchy from httpd and ftpd. Some sites still run the gopherd as well, usually on the same files. Doing this is okay, as long as you take care not to allow uploaded files to be served from httpd as CGI programs. Be sure that if you do allow uploads via ftpd, the upload directory is completely hidden from httpd, using file permissions, ownership/uid, and access.conf configuration options.