Hey,

A user of mine deleted all his folders by accident (public_html,www,public_ftp etc).
Is there a way to prevent users from deleting these folders again?

Yes, but you may serve life for it. There is only one solution ... Murder!

The only way I can think of is to remove the write privledges form the directory below it, but that would also prevent them from making new folders.

ie. if it is /home/user/public_html

chmod 700 /home/user

You can't , thats why its public_html ! ;)

okay, thanks anyway :)

chattr +i public_html

You can't store anything under it if you change the attribute ~

If you don't want the folder to be removed, but allow storing and deletion under it, you can set the directives in the ftp configuration file ~

Choose one of the options...
1) Tell them treat public_html as system folder..once it is deleted, everything gone..need to reinstall

2) If they deleted, and can't create it again....charge them what they pay you *another word..they delete their own account*

3) say...tough luck....ur account is dead

lol~
JOKING!!!!!

No ways you could stop people deleting it....because we have a few customers delete public_html and complain us that our server is down....nice excuse I ever heard... =.=

a little something called backups :P

Well they can also easily just create the directory again and reupload. Very little trouble really.

So far, noone I know of had deleted the directory.