{"id":9232,"date":"2021-01-30T10:04:17","date_gmt":"2021-01-30T10:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/hosting-faqs\/?p=9232"},"modified":"2024-04-24T06:41:23","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T05:41:23","slug":"create-ftp-account-directadmin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/hosting-faqs\/create-ftp-account-directadmin\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Create an FTP Account in DirectAdmin?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DirectAdmin is capable of creating additional FTP accounts within your user-level account. You will need this, if you want to offer additional access to a developer or member of your staff, but don&#8217;t want to provide direct access over SSH or to the DirectAdmin panel. With this, the user can just cancel their FTP access if ever needed.<\/p>\n<p>It is good to creating separate FTP accounts as it restricts the access to your websites, too.<\/p>\n<p>In this guide, you will learn to create FTP accounts as necessary, whenever you want.<\/p>\n<h3>Steps Create an FTP Account<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Step 1:<\/strong> Login to your <strong>DirectAdmin<\/strong> account.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 2:<\/strong> Go to <strong>&#8220;Account Manager&#8221;<\/strong> and click on <strong>&#8220;FTP Management&#8221;<\/strong>. In this window, you will find a default FTP account is already created. For each DirectAdmin user, DirectAdmin creates a default FTP account.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-11392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/hosting-faqs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ftp-management-min-1024x142.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"142\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 3:<\/strong> Click on <strong>&#8220;Create FTP Account&#8221;<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-11393\" src=\"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/hosting-faqs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/create-ftp-account-min-1024x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 4:<\/strong> In the <strong>&#8220;Create FTP Account&#8221;<\/strong> window enter the below fields:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-11394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/hosting-faqs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/create-ftp-fields-min-1024x246.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"246\" \/><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>FTP Username:<\/strong> The username you want to assign to your new account.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Password:<\/strong> Password for the new account.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Type of FTP Account<\/strong>:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>There are 4 options to select from:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Domain<\/strong> \u2013 \/home\/$USER\/domains\/domain.com<\/li>\n<li><strong>FTP<\/strong> \u2013 \/home\/$USER\/domains\/domain.com\/public_ftp<\/li>\n<li><strong>User<\/strong> \u2013 \/home\/$USER\/domains\/domain.com\/$USER<\/li>\n<li><strong>Custom<\/strong> \u2013 Define your own file path<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here $USER is your account name. In this example, we have used <strong>\u2018wikejryg\u2019<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 5:<\/strong> After filling the information, click on <strong>Create<\/strong> button.<\/p>\n<p>This will display a success message including your username, password and path. You can close this window.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/hosting-faqs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ftp-account-created-min-new.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"727\" height=\"231\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You will get redirected to your FTP Management page.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-11396\" src=\"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/hosting-faqs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/new-ftp-account-min-1024x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"168\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, you have successfully created an FTP Account. 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