The FTP Manager section of the Control Panel allows you to view and manage the FTP accounts for your hosting account. There you can:
The main FTP account is created automatically, its username and password are the same as for the hosting Control Panel, and it has access to your account's home directory (/home/USERNAME/). You can create new FTP subaccounts with custom usernames and access to a specific directory by following these steps:
You can change the password of an FTP account by clicking on the Change Password link next to it.
Note: Since the main FTP account is created automatically, and its username and password are the same as for the hosting Control Panel, clicking on the Change Password button will take you to the Control Panel -> Account Profile section where you can change your hosting Control Panel password, and respectively your main FTP account password.
The main FTP account has access to your hosting account's home directory (/home/USERNAME/), so it can access and manage all files and directories in your hosting account. On the other hand, an FTP subaccount can be configured to access all directories or a specific directory (and its subdirectories) in your hosting account. An FTP subaccount cannot access directories above the directory they have access to. Additionally, you can limit access to a specific or a group of FTP commands in a particular directory by using .ftpaccess files.
To change the directory an FTP subaccount is able to access, follow these steps:
Here are some examples on how to use the Directory field:
You can delete any of your FTP subaccounts by clicking on the Delete button next to it.
You can also use the Config file button next to an FTP account to generate a FileZilla configuration file to easily configure that FTP account in the program.
If you do not wish to use FileZilla, you can find detailed instructions on how to configure the most popular FTP software applications in the Uploading file category from our online documentation.
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