How do I create additional FTP accounts in cPanel?

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What is an FTP server?

The FTP service enablesfiles to be exchanged between a client and a server. When you want to upload a website in order to put it online, it is common to use an FTP client such as FileZilla. Using an FTP client is relatively easy. Help is available on publishing websites.

Using the cPanel server as an FTP server gives you access to the files associated with your hosting package. You can also create several FTP accounts on cPanel to provide different connection identifiers if there are several of you working on the website.

Each FTP account can be restricted to a specific directory, preventing it from accessing files outside that directory. You can also set a limit on the disk space allocated, to limit the total size of each FTP account's root directory.

How do I create additional FTP accounts in cPanel?

To add an FTP account to your cPanel account :

1. Connect to your cPanel account and click on the " FTP Accounts " icon.

2. In the " Add an FTP account " section, fill in the required fields (1) as follows:

• Connection: the FTP identifier you wish to use (username)
• Domain: the domain name you wish to link to the FTP account
• Password: the password for the FTP account. For security reasons, the password must be more than eight characters long, case-sensitive (upper/lower case) and contain at least one special character. The "Password Generator " button lets you generate a random password if you wish.
• Directory: the root directory of your FTP account. You can leave this field empty to allow the FTP account to access all the files on your cPanel hosting.
• Quota: the limit of disk space used for the root directory of your FTP account. You can leave this set to " unlimited " if you don't want to impose a limit.

Then click on " Create an FTP account " (2) to confirm your action.

The additional FTP account is immediately created and operational.

You can edit existing additional FTP accounts in the " FTP accounts " section below the form. Several actions are available:

• Change the password for your FTP accounts
• Change the disk space you have allocated to your FTP accounts
• Delete your FTP accounts
• Configure your FTP publishing software

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Conclusion

You now know how to add additional FTP accounts to your cPanel web hosting with LWS. Creating an additional FTP account can be very useful if you want several people to work on the same web space without giving out your own connection details.

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