{"id":84,"date":"2020-03-03T11:47:10","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T10:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=84"},"modified":"2023-11-07T10:26:06","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T09:26:06","slug":"creating-an-ftp-user","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/kb\/creating-an-ftp-user\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating an FTP user"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You can create an FTP user to access the files on your web hosting. Creating an FTP user is very easy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Follow these steps in the <a href=\"https:\/\/my.easyhost.be\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">control panel<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol><li>Go to &#8220;My products&#8221;> &#8220;Web hosting&#8221; > Click on &#8220;Manage&#8221; next to your domain name.<\/li><li>On your left, click on \u201cFTP &amp; SSH\u201d. Now, click on \u201cFTP\u201d.<\/li><li>Click on &#8220;Add&#8221; on the right to create a new FTP-user.<\/li><li>Fill in a user name and password.<\/li><li>Optional: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/kb\/adjusting-the-rights-of-an-ftp-user\/\">Limit the user&#8217;s rights to certain folders and \/ or permissions<\/a>!<\/li><li>Finalize by clicking on the \u201cAdd user\u201d button.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-ht-blocks-messages wp-block-hb-message wp-block-hb-message--withicon is-style-info\"><meta charset=\"utf-8\"><strong>Check for leaked passwords<br><\/strong>To prevent hacking of your website, we compare your passwords with passwords known in the <a href=\"https:\/\/haveibeenpwned.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">haveibeenpwned.com<\/a> database.<br>We do this in an encrypted way and never know your entered password.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can create an FTP user to access the files on your web hosting. Creating an FTP user is very easy. Follow these steps in the control panel: Go to &#8220;My products&#8221;> &#8220;Web hosting&#8221; > Click on &#8220;Manage&#8221; next to your domain name. On your left, click on \u201cFTP &amp;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[44,3],"ht-kb-tag":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/84"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2861,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/84\/revisions\/2861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}