File Manager Help (DO NOT USE WITH FrontPage)

Controllable ANON FTP

The File Manager is located within your account Control Panel and can be used to set read/write permissions on files and directories within your Web site.

To inhibit access to specific directories within your Web site from anonymous FTP visitors, you need to set public read access OFF for each of these directories. This will prevent anonymous visitors from being able to download files within such a directory. This does NOT affect web access.

First locate the desired directory name within the File Manager. In the following example, the directory named "HTML" is set to public read access ON:

To set public read access OFF for the directory HTML, click the checkbox titled "pr" to remove the check mark as illustrated below.

Do NOT change permissions on system directories. (ie. bin, cgi-local, dev, etc, stats). If you set public read access OFF for an entire directory, you do NOT need to do so for individual files within that directory. Now that your subdirectories are protected, you will need to set public read access OFF for files within your root directory that you wish to protect as well.

In the following example, the File Manager is used to protect the main home page:

Although the File Manager can be used to inhibit access to other files within the root directory of your Web site as well, setting public read access OFF does not remove file names from the FTP directory/file listing. To remove files from the root listing, you can move all HTML files with the exception of the main home page (ie. index.htm) to a subdirectory and set public read access OFF for the entire subdirectory. Do NOT move system files such as .forward and .procmailrc .

*** Important ***

If you enable public write access (PW) for any file while ANON FTP access is enabled, visitors can overwrite related files.

Additional Information

Virtual domain account users can allow anonymous FTP access to visitors wishing to download or upload files to your web site as if you were running your own FTP server. You can enable (and disable) ANON FTP access within Edit Account Information within your account Control Panel.

*** Important ***

Be sure to read the entire documentation regarding anonymous FTP access contained herein beforehand.

By default, all files and directories within your account are set to public read access ON. As such, enabling ANON FTP will allow access to ALL files within your account. In general, you can inhibit access to specific files and directories using the File Manager.

Once you enable ANON FTP in Account Settings within your Control Panel, files can be accessed anonymously via FTP client or by using the following URL format:

ftp://ftp.yourdomain.com/<FILENAME>

Anonymous visitors wishing to access your site via FTP client (eg. wsftp) must use your domain name as the FTP hostname, userid of anonymous and password of guest.

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