Uploading Your Website Using FTP
File Transfer Protocol, or FTP, is a protocol used to upload files from a workstation to a FTP server or download files from a FTP server to a workstation. It is the way that files get transferred from one device to another in order for the files to be available on the Internet. When ftp appears in a URL it means that the user is connecting to a file server and not a web server and that some form of file transfer is going to take place. Most FTP servers require the user to log on to the server in order to transfer files. Thus, you should add the FTP user.
To get FTP access to your website:
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Click the System tab;
Note: To get FTP access, you should have the ProFTPD installed on your server. If you do not see the FTP Users icon at your Control Panel dashboard, check your applications (System tab -> Applications).
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Select FTP Accounts. The list of users that have the FTP access appears on the screen;
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Click the Add FTP user button. The Add FTP user form appears on the screen;
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Fill the form:
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Type the FTP user name (i.e., a login like john or admin) in the User name textbox;
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Type and retype the FTP user password in the Password textbox;
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You can type a free-form comment for future references in the Comment textbox;
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Mark the Allow FTP access checkbox to allow a user to upload files in his (or her) home directory;
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You can mark the Allow using a directory for web documents checkbox to create the special directory named public_html for a user to upload files. You can see this directory at http://site/~user, site - the name of your website, user - FTP user name.
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Click the Save button. The updated list of FTP users appears on the screen.
Note: When you add a new FTP user, a mailbox in multiple domains (e-mail address in all domains you have) is being automatically created for this user.
Note: If you have System Administrator Control Panel installed in your system, the FTP permissions can be granted to a user by adding a user to the ftpusers group also (System tab -> Users&Groups Management).
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