Fig 1.0 Click on the FTP ACCOUNTS link to open.....
| CREATE A FTP USER ACCOUNT |
Creating a FTP Account for a User (i.e. Customer. Member. Secretary) means creating a Private Upload/Download Folder (FTP Folder) for them, with a
User Name & Password. FTP Folders are generally used for file sharing purposes. For example. A secretary can upload important/urgent files to the
FTP Folder (from London for example) for the boss to download later (from Spain for example). This is particularly better than sending the files by
email because emails normally have a upload size limit - The FTP Folder is only limited by the size of your web space or by the Quota (size limit)
you give it. Emails might also be stripped of content (i.e. picture files) whereas the uploaded important/urgent files will be inside the FTP Folder
regardless.
To create a FTP User Account you first need to login to your web space Control Panel.
Once logged in find and then click on the FTP ACCOUNTS link (Fig 1.0) to open the FTP Accounts control panel (Fig 1.1).
When the FTP Accounts control panel opens (Fig 1.1) it displays any existing ftp accounts, some of which might have been set up by default, and also gives
you the facility to create a new ftp account. One of the ftp accounts set up by default for example will be the ftp account associated with your website
account. In this example my website1 ftp account. This is meant for the administrator of the website (me). If you want an ftp account for your
visitors/staff/etc you need to create one for them. In this example I will show you how to create an ftp account called ftpuser.
The control panel might look complex at first but do not worry! it is only a form you need to fill out. The other stuff is just information which you
should read carefully and note down for future reference (i.e. actual FTP Account details). That way you will not need to keep logging in to your
cpanel control panel in order to find/remember that information later.
The first part of the form requires a User (LOGIN) Name, to go with a Domain Name from the DOMAIN NAME drop-down menu - If you only have one domain name
the drop-down menu will be fixed on that domain name but if you have more than one domain name the drop-down menu will have those domain names selectable
of course. In the above example I typed ftpuser into the LOGIN edit box and did not need to touch the DOMAIN NAME drop-down menu because I only
have one domain name I can use, the one already selected - websitecreationhelp.com. Therefore ftpuser@websitecreationhelp.com is my ftp account user
(login) name.
The next part of the form requires a Password to be entered into the PASSWORD edit box, which then needs to be typed into the PASSWORD (AGAIN) edit box
for confirmation purposes. The password here needs to be stronger than usual simply because you are allowing people to edit/delete folders/files from
within your web space. In this example I used password: 2+2=4338.
The DIRECTORY edit box will automatically be filled in for you, when you enter a user (login) name into the LOGIN edit box, with the URL (path name)
public_html and /user (login) name (i.e. ftpuser). This means your visitors/staff/etc will only be able to access this user (login) name
folder, which is automatically created for you inside your public_html (website) folder, as opposed to accessing the whole of your public_html folder.
If you do want them to have access to the whole of your public_html folder (its content) change the DIRECTORY edit box to public_html/ only.
The last edit box to fill in is the QUOTA edit box. It sets the MegaBytes storage limit for this ftp account folder (i.e. ftpuser). Rather than leave
it set to unlimited I would strongly suggest setting it to 5, 10 or 20 MegaBytes maximum, if you do not want your visitors/staff/etc to use up the bulk
of your web space with the unlimited option.
When you have filled in the above form click on the CREATE FTP ACCOUNT button to continue.
After clicking on the CREATE FTP ACCOUNT button you are shown the standard confirmation page (above) that confirms you have successfully created an FTP Account. Clicking on its GO BACK link reconfirms this because the Account Management section on the ftp, control panel, page displays the newly created ftp account. From here you can then edit the ftp account and so on.
To gain access (login) to the ftpuser folder, via a FTP Program for example, I would need to use the user (login) name ftpuser@websitecreationhelp.com and password I typed into the above form. The How To Connect To A Website Folder Via FTP section shows you how to connect to your web space and public_html folder using your main (administrator) ftp account. To connect to this newly created user ftp account folder (i.e. ftpuser) you follow the example in the just mentioned section but login with the details of this user ftp account instead. So in this example I would not login as User Name: website1 (to gain access to my web space), I would login as User Name: ftpuser (to gain access to the ftpuser folder only, which resides in the public_html folder). With ftp accounts you have to login with the domain name attached as well. So I would actually login as ftpuser@websitecreationhelp.com.
If you want to know your ftp configuration/connection settings, for a manual connection as described above or for a specifically supported ftp client (ftp software), click on the CONFIGURE FTP CLIENT link next to one of your ftp accounts and you will be shown the configuration/connection settings for that ftp account - You may need to click on the name/link of the ftp client next.
Remember. If you are creating ftp members for your website you do not want to give them complete access to your web space. Create them a folder only instead.
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