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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nPress the Create FTP Account button on the right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Provide a username for this account, as well as a secure password. To generate a secure password automatically, click the little dice icon. Reveal the password by clicking the little eye icon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The four options Domain<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n Provides complete access to the entire account. FTP<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n Provides complete access to only the public_ftp folder. User<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n Specific access under the main website document root. Custom<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n Provides access to only the folder and it’s subfolders selected. This is the best option if unsure<\/strong>. Using either the Once selected, press the Once an account is created, you can use it with any popular FTP client. A few examples are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n To connect, you’ll want to use the following information inside the FTP client. Importantly, replace When connecting, you may receive a warning about the connection not being verified, which is generally safe to dismiss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" To upload files to your hosting account, an FTP account is required. Log in to control panel. Under Account Manager, choose FTP Management. Press the Create FTP Account button on the right. Provide a username for this account, as well as a secure password. To generate a secure password automatically, click the little dice icon. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-managing-your-site"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediadrive.ca\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediadrive.ca\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediadrive.ca\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediadrive.ca\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediadrive.ca\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mediadrive.ca\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":358,"href":"https:\/\/mediadrive.ca\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions\/358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediadrive.ca\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediadrive.ca\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediadrive.ca\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/mediadrive.ca\/docs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/image-5-1024x50.png\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\nDomain<\/code>, FTP<\/code>, User<\/code>, and Custom<\/code> indicate the access granted to the FTP account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Domain<\/code> or Custom<\/code> options is preferred in almost all cases. The Domain<\/code> option is non-configurable, but the Custom<\/code> option will prompt you for a path to the sub folder. Here’s an example of us limiting access to the docs.mediadrive.ca<\/code> domain’s website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/mediadrive.ca\/docs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/image-6-1024x165.png\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\nCreate<\/code> button.<\/p>\n\n\n\nAccessing the FTP system<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Hostname:<\/strong> ftps:\/\/yourdomain.com<\/em>
Username:<\/strong> yourusername@yourdomain.com<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nyourdomain.com <\/code>with the domain you created an FTP user for, and the hostname should start with ftps:\/\/<\/code>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n