Adding an FTP user

To add a new ftp user click the user manager menu:

• Click the User Manager menu under the General section.

• Click Add User submenu.

• On add FTP user page provide the General Information and click Add User button:

Login Name:

This is the login name of the FTP User.

Login Password:

The FTP User has to provide a password to have access to the panel. The login name is visible, but the password is not visible. It is a set of secret characters. It is recommended that password should consist of a combination of letters and numbers.

Confirm Password:

Here re-type the password you have provided in the above field.

Description:

This is any extra information you like to add about your FTP User to make it more descriptive.

Disable User:

Tick this check box if you want to disable the account of this FTP User. This is normally done in case the user has not paid any due payments.

Select the Folder on which you want to Grant Access to this User:

With every website, panel creates four folders in website folder. At the time of FTP user creation, you may require to grant access to these folders. But you have to grant this access separately for each folder for every website. All the websites created under your account will be displayed.

WWW:

The websites files are uploaded to the /www folder.

DB:

The website database will be uploaded in the /db folder.

SPECIAL:

This is a spare folder and can be used for any purposes, for example the mail boxes for your website could be stored in the /special folder.

LOG:

The website logs will be stored in the /log folder. The user can download raw logs from here.