Stylus SFTP Server

User's Guide

Welcome

Enterprise-grade SFTP/FTPS server for secure file transfer. Zero-configuration defaults with full customization. Supports JDBC, LDAP, and XML authentication providers, per-user disk quotas, real-time audit trail, email/syslog/webhook notifications, and browser-based file transfer.

Use the sidebar or the chapter listing below to navigate through the documentation.

Chapters

Getting Started

  1. Product Overview — Architecture, components, and supported platforms.
  2. Installation — Installer walkthrough, Windows service setup, and first run.

Configuration

  1. Configuration Reference — All configuration files, XML structure, and path macros.
  2. Authentication — JDBC, LDAP/Active Directory, XML flat-file, public-key providers, and multi-factor authentication.
  3. Filesystem & Uploads — Home directories, upload lifecycle, staging, rename patterns, and volume guard.
  4. Database Storage — Store files as BLOBs in MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQL Server instead of local disk.

Security & Audit

  1. Security — Algorithm configuration, MFA, IP filtering, rate limiting, account lockout, and GeoIP blocking.
  2. Audit Trail — Event types, JDBC audit sink, and async queue architecture.
  3. Notifications — Email alerts, syslog/SIEM integration, and webhook delivery.

Administration

  1. Administration Tools — Admin authentication, CLI, Swing GUI, and Web Admin Console.
  2. Real-Time Monitoring — Per-user bandwidth, session activity, and event traffic in the Activities tab.
  3. Web File Transfer Portal — Browser-based file transfer, file search, and multi-file ZIP download.
  4. Knowledge Base — Built-in documentation area: topic tree, rich page editor with tables, code, diagrams, group visibility, and version history.
  5. Organizations, Groups, and Virtual Folders — Multi-tenant identity model: orgs, groups, virtual folders, folder ACLs, mount routing, and probe-all-parallel authentication.
  6. Content Retention — Per-folder age-based deletion policy, 24-hour grace bin, and restore workflow.

Protocols

  1. FTP/FTPS Support — Implicit and explicit TLS, certificate management, and cipher configuration.
  2. WebDAV Access — HTTP-based file access, network drive mounting, client setup, and downstream integration.

Reference

  1. Advanced Topics — Hot-reload configuration, clustering considerations, database tuning, and driver downloads.
  2. Troubleshooting — Common issues, diagnostics, and log analysis.
  3. Appendix — CLI Reference, Event Types, Configuration Quick Reference.