There are three ways to allow guest users to download, upload
or view files in dedicated directories of your account:
FTP Subaccounts (available only
for Unix based accounts)
The simplest way to authorize your friends or colleagues to
work with particular directories of your account is to create
FTP subaccounts. An FTP subaccount is a combination of a
username and a password, which gives full FTP permissions to a
single directory, without giving access to the root directory,
other directories or the control panel. No dedicated IP is
required for FTP subaccounts. Although each FTP subaccount has a
login which is different from yours, both have the same ID in
the system.
To create a new FTP subaccount:
- Select FTP User link in FTP/User Account
menu.
- At the bottom of the page that shows, find FTP
sub-accounts and click the Add
icon.
- On the next page, enter the FTP login and password that
will be used by this other user, and the directory this user
will be restricted to.
The directory must be relative to your home directory. If
you leave the directory field empty, FTP sub-users
will have access to your whole home directory.
FTP subaccount traffic is a part of the Total/Summary
traffic, but you can always see how much FTP traffic has been
run up by an individual FTP subaccount by going to the FTP
Manager page and clicking the Edit icon next to the
subaccount login.
Virtual FTP
Virtual FTP provides ampler possibilities than FTP
sub-accounts. You can give your authorized Virtual FTP users
access to more than one directory and specify a different set of
permissions for each directory. Virtual FTP users log right into
your root, but can enter only those directories you allow them
to enter.
To provide Virtual FTP Access to a certain domain, do
the following:
- Skip this step if you are already using a dedicated IP.
Select FTP in FTP/User Account menu.
- If you have several domains, choose the one
to enable virtual FTP for.
- On the page that appears, switch to dedicated
IP. Click
here
to read about the difference between shared and
dedicated IPs.
- Click the
confirmation link to
agree with the charges.
- On the next page, add server name for the new
virtual host. This name will appear in the welcome
message when guest users connect to your server with FTP
clients. Also, enter the e-mail address by which FTP
users can reach you with questions or comments.
- Click the Edit icon for FTP for this domain.
- Click the Add icon for Virtual FTP Users
and create a new Virtual FTP User:
- Click the Add icon for Virtual FTP
Directories
and enter the name for the new Virtual FTP
Directory:
End it with a slash, e.g.: Dir1/. The
location must be specified relative to root. To
create a virtual FTP directory inside a
different directory, include the path, for
example UserDirs/Dir1/.
On the same page, specify permissions to this
directory:
Read: check to allow file downloads from this
directory.
Write: check to allow file uploads to this
directory.
List: check to allow viewing / browsing the
contents of the directory. It is usually used
jointly with Read.
Grant Permissions to all users: check to
grant these permissions to all your Virtual FTP
users. If you leave this property unchecked, you
will have to define permissions on this
directory individually for each Virtual FTP
User.
- Click the Edit icon next to the directory
you have just created. If you haven't granted the
same permissions to all your Virtual FTP Users, you
can specify permissions for each of them
individually:
If you have chosen to grant the same
permissions to all users, you can skip this step.
Anonymous FTP
This feature allows you to give public FTP access to
a dedicated directory in your account. A special
directory is created in your root, and its content can
be viewed and downloaded, but not uploaded.
Anonymous FTP becomes available only after you create
a Virtual FTP server. To configure Anonymous FTP, do the
following:
- Skip this step if you are already using a
dedicated IP.
Select FTP in
FTP/User Account menu.
- If you have several
domains, choose the one to
enable virtual FTP for. On
the page that appears,
switch to dedicated IP.
Click
here
to read about the difference
between shared and dedicated
IPs.
- Skip this step if you have already enabled
Virtual FTP.
Select FTP in FTP/User Account menu. Enable
FTP for this domain:
and agree with the charges.
- On your control panel home page, select FTP in
FTP/User Account menu. Enable Anonymous FTP for this
domain:
You can also enable Anonymous FTP on the FTP vhost
page.
- Agree with the charges.
Anonymous FTP Upload Facilities
If you want to allow anonymous FTP users to upload
files, enable Anonymous FTP Upload Facilities by
doing the following:
- Enable Anonymous FTP.
- At the bottom of the FTP vhost page you will find a
new option to enable anonymous FTP upload facilities:
Turn it on. This will create a dedicated directory inside the
Anonymous FTP directory.
* The Uploads (Windows based plans) / Incoming (Unix based
plans) directory have only 'upload' permissions, so it will
allow neither downloading nor viewing its content.
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