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:
- Go to your control panel home.
- Click the FTP Manager icon.
- 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.
On your control panel home page, click the
Domains icon.
- 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.
- Go back to your control panel home page
and click the FTP Service icon. Enable
FTP for this domain:
- 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.
On your control panel home page, click the
Domains icon.
- 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.
Go back to your control panel home page and
click the FTP Service icon. Enable
FTP for this domain:
- On your control panel home page, click FTP
Service, then enable Anonymous FTP for
the domain you want:
You can also enable Anonymous FTP on the FTP
vhost page.
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.
