{"id":33718,"date":"2016-09-19T10:19:20","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T10:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hostduplex.com\/kb\/?p=139"},"modified":"2016-09-19T10:19:20","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T10:19:20","slug":"how-to-create-an-ftp-account-in-cpanel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/how-to-create-an-ftp-account-in-cpanel\/","title":{"rendered":"How to create an FTP Account in cPanel?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">You can use your cPanel username and password to access all folders and files via FTP. However, if you want to create an FTP user account for a specific folder or you don&#8217;t want to allow access to your root files then you can create a separate FTP Account. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>1.<\/strong> Log into your cPanel account.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>2.<\/strong> In the <strong>Files<\/strong> section, click on <strong>FTP Accounts<\/strong> Icon.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/kb\/img\/cpanel-ftp-icon.gif\" alt=\"\" align=\"middle\" \/><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>3.<\/strong> Under <strong>Add FTP Account<\/strong> text, fill in the following details: <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Log in:<\/strong> FTP Username like <strong>new-user<\/strong> (without space)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Password:<\/strong> (Enter new FTP Password or generate a new password by clicking on the <strong>Password Generator<\/strong> button)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Directory:<\/strong> If you want to give access to the entire \/public_html folder, enter <strong>public_html<\/strong> or change folder path to a different path like <strong>public_html\/new-user<\/strong>, and your FTP user will be granted access to only the <strong>new-user<\/strong> folder. Your FTP user will also be unable to access folders outside of the <strong>public_html\/new-user<\/strong> folder.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Quota:<\/strong> Specify the quota in numerical words or select <strong>unlimited<\/strong>.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/kb\/img\/new-ftp-account.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>4.<\/strong> Click on the <strong>Create FTP Account<\/strong> button. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Now you can access your FTP Account by using your newly-created FTP account like: <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Host:<\/strong> Your Website IP or enter your website name like ftp.example.com (replace example.com with your website address).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Username:<\/strong> NewFTPUser@example.com<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>FTP Port:<\/strong> 21 (Default port is 21)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>FTP Password:<\/strong> Your FTP Password<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can use your cPanel username and password to access all folders and files via FTP. However, if you want to create an FTP user account for a specific folder or you don&#8217;t want to allow access to your root files then you can create a separate FTP Account. &nbsp;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ftp-cpanel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}