The FTP manager allows you to create multiple FTP accounts on your site. Once an FTP login account is setup, you can start uploading files with your FTP software. This is ideal when you have more than one user needing to upload or download files. You can also reset the existing FTP users' home directory, permissions and passwords in this section. NOTE: The FTP Manager lets you create accounts but you have to use FTP software to access such accounts and upload files.
The following are the steps for Creating, Deleting and Modifying FTP accounts:
Creating FTP Accounts:
1. FTP UserID: Enter the new account name
2. Password: Enter a corresponding password
Note: For security purposes, all FTP accounts created will carry your loginID in front of the account name. For example, if your ID is 'mark55' and you add account called 'customer' your ftp login ID will be 'mark55customer'.
3. Directory: Specify the starting path for the account
Note: This is useful when you are creating multiple accounts and wish to restrict access to your root folder or top level folders for some users. For example:
If your root folder is c:\website and have a sub folder called apples, you can grant access to the path c:\website\apples if you specify the apples folder in the field. A user with this mapped path cannot access your root folder c:\website
If you do not want to create an account with restricted access, do not specify anything in this field. The FTP account will have access to your root.
4. Directory Access: Enter permissions for the new FTP account
| R=Read |
Grants permission to view the contents of a file. |
| W=Write |
Grants permission to make changes to files and folders (and can write to file even if Read permissions are not included). |
| A=Append |
Grants permission to append to a file. (Adding contents of one file to another without opening either one.) |
| M=Delete |
Grants permission to delete files and folders. |
| L=List |
Grants permission to see the content in folders. If turned off, users can still upload but cannot see what files are in the folder. |
| C=Make |
Grants permission to create folders. |
| D=Remove |
Grants permission to erase folders. |
| P=Inherit |
System use only. Do not omit this key. |
5. Click "Add FTP Account" and confirm addition.
Deleting FTP Accounts:
1. Current FTP Users: select the account and click the red button
2. Confirm deletion and continue
Changing FTP Password, Path, Permissions:
Select the FTP account to modify and click on "EDIT", You will get a screen
1. Password: Change account's password
2. Directory : (Path) Enter home directory. The FTP account will login at the folder that you specify in this field. If you do not want to change the path, Leave this as-is
3. Directory Access: (Permissions) Refer to chart in Creating FTP Accounts section
4. Click "Modify FTP Account" and confirm
Edit IP Access:
Select the FTP account to modify and click on "IP ACCESS", You will get a screen
1. Please check your IP address in the red sentence.
2. Type the IP address which you want to grant access.
3. Click "Add IP Address" to enable IP access rule and grant the IP access right.
4. Delete the IP Address which you do not want to allow access.
You can add IP address that explicitly allows to access your FTP account. Once you added this, any incoming ftp connection from all other IP addresses will be denied. We strongly recommend users who demand high security and with static IP address from home and office to configure this option.
Empty the list in order to allow all IP to access.