Ftp

[nintendohaven.com]

I have been trying to setup an ftp accout for a subdomain. I can't quite figure out how to get it to work. Do I have to enable ftp somehow or does it take some time for it to setup an ftp accout?

[superman]

you must setup an ftp account with the username the same as the sub domain, please give more info are you using dreamweaver?

[shadmego]

When setting up ftp users for subdomains, you must be aware that you can possibly give your ftp accounts full access to your site.

You have to be careful how you set your ftp accounts up.

In the main CPanel page, look for FTP Manager. It should be right next to File Manager in the third row of options. Click on that and then click on "FTP Accounts".

Inside there you will see several text boxes to fill in. Among them are the usename/password and the directory where you want to limit access. This directory, as explained in the directions at the bottom of that page, is the directory the newly created FTP user will have access to (recursively by the way). Take note that you should NOT put the tailing slash ( / ) at the end of the directory name or you will give access to the whole site to this user.

So, you have a subdomain downloads.yourdomain.com

You create the ftp user: downloads
with the password: whatever_you_want
in the Directory box,
you would enter: downloads

That's it.

Then, using any ftp software, you connect to your site:

ftp.yourdomain.com (ftp://ftp.yourdomain.com)

with the user: downloads
and the password: whatever_you_want

Upon logging in, this user is taken to the:

/home/domain/public_html/downloads

directory, where he stays. He can go forwards ... downloads/images,

but not backwards ... public_html


Hope that helped clear some things up for ya.

~kind regards
Shadmego

[nintendohaven.com]

YES! I GOT IT! Thank you both so much for the help.

[Aaron]

Take note that the FTP username is rather quirky. It won't be just the username, but the entire username would look like username@domain.com

[shadmego]

Thanks, Aaron. I forgot to mention that in my last post.

I gotta have someone keep me straight! ;)