ASUS WL-500b

ASUS WL-500bv2

ASUS WL-500g

ASUS WL-500g Deluxe (WL500-gx)

ASUS WL-HDD

If you are the lucky owner of any of the above devices, you have come to the right place.
If you still dont have one of the above devices - dont hesitate, go buy one :-)

After following the steps in this guide, your ASUS WL device will have all its normal functionality,
and also contain a full featured PHP enabled webserver that can be accessed from the WAN (Internet).

One of the above Asus Wireless devices

An USB Harddrive or USB Memory Stick / Keyring with some 50-100 MB space.(For the WL-HDD you just need a regular Harddrive)

Firmware version 1.9.2.7-4 (or higher) by Oleg

The ipkg package system

Installing and configuring the needed Software Packages

The needed package will be installed using the ipkg package management system. Since vsftpd is a (x)inetd demon, we need to install xinetd :
Now install the vsftpd package :
At the of /opt/etc/vsftpd.conf add the following line:

create the dir

xinet.d will by default start a couple of services, that are not relevant on the wl-500g
Now create the vsftpd xinetd script :

copy-paste the following content to the file. REMEMBER to change the username
to the user that you use to login to your admin web pages on your router
(admin is the default name)
To be able to start your vsftpd server, you should kill your stupid-ftpd server, if that is running :
Now you can start your xinetd demon, and in that way also your vsftpd server by doing :
The vsftpd server is now started, and should restart upon reboot of your router :-)

One of my readers have brought to my attention, that after following the guide, the ftp server kept rejecting him to login. He then reconnected his harddrive, and after that it worked. Maby worth a try if you are having problems getting it to work. Thanks to William de Wit for this input !

I hope you found this guide useful.