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There
are three ways to allow guest users to download, upload or
view files in dedicated directories of your account:
FTP
Subaccounts
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, do the following:
- 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.
Next, 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.
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