{"id":973,"date":"2018-01-07T15:05:48","date_gmt":"2018-01-07T15:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demon.comz\/?p=973"},"modified":"2018-01-07T15:05:48","modified_gmt":"2018-01-07T15:05:48","slug":"how-to-create-an-additional-web-disk-account-in-cpanel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/how-to-create-an-additional-web-disk-account-in-cpanel\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Create an Additional Web Disk Account in cPanel?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><br \/>\nYou can use cPanel login details to access your Web Disk. You can also create an additional account for accessing a specific directory on your account so that it can be useful for security purposes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>1.<\/strong> Log into your cPanel account. (e.g., www.example.com\/cPanel )<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><br \/>\n<strong>2.<\/strong> In the <strong>Files<\/strong> section, click the <strong>Web Disk<\/strong> icon.<br \/>\n<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/kb\/img\/cpanel-webdisk-icon.gif\" alt=\"\" align=\"none\" \/><br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\n3.<\/strong> Under <strong>Create an Additional Web Disk Account<\/strong>, enter the details of the new account you wish to create.<br \/>\n<strong>Username:<\/strong> folderx<br \/>\n<strong>Password:<\/strong> Enter your new password or click the Password Generator button to generate a random password.<br \/>\n<strong>Directory:<\/strong> You can leave it blank, but it will grant access to the entire directory. If you wish to allow access to only a specific folder, enter the folder location, such as public_html\/folderx (the user will be only able to access \/folderx).<br \/>\n<strong>Permissions:<\/strong> Select your option.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/kb\/img\/cpanel-webdisk-create-ac.gif\" alt=\"\" align=\"none\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> If you are using the Windows OS, you will need to mark <strong>Enable Digest Authentication<\/strong>. However, if the server has an SSL certificate signed by a recognized certificate authority and you can make an SSL connection over port 2078, you do not need to enable this.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4. <\/strong>Now click on the <strong>Create<\/strong> button, and your new additional account will be created. You can use your new login details to access your Web Disk.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can use cPanel login details to access your Web Disk. You can also create an additional account for accessing a specific directory on your account so that it can be useful for security purposes. 1. Log into your cPanel account. (e.g., www.example.com\/cPanel ) 2. In the Files section, click&#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":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cpanel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973","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=973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}