Place your CA.crt, crt and key file here and create sysmlinks like following ... ssl ├── proftpd.cacert.pem -> CA.crt ├── proftpd.cert.pem -> wildcard.example.com.crt ├── proftpd.key.pem -> wildcard.example.com.pem ├── CA.crt ├── wildcard.example.com.crt └── wildcard.example.com.pem then: copy conf.d/tls.template to conf.d/tls.conf finally: uncomment '#Include /etc/proftpd/conf.d/*.conf' in proftp.conf