{"id":1013,"date":"2024-12-03T05:58:35","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T05:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.trustedhosting.in\/?p=1013"},"modified":"2026-04-13T10:16:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T10:16:01","slug":"how-to-create-an-ftp-account-in-cpanel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/how-to-create-an-ftp-account-in-cpanel\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Create an FTP Account In cPanel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11437 size-full\" title=\"How to Create an FTP Account In cPanel\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ChatGPT-Image-Apr-13-2026-03_45_07-PM.png\" alt=\"How to Create an FTP Account In cPanel\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ChatGPT-Image-Apr-13-2026-03_45_07-PM.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ChatGPT-Image-Apr-13-2026-03_45_07-PM-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ChatGPT-Image-Apr-13-2026-03_45_07-PM-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ChatGPT-Image-Apr-13-2026-03_45_07-PM-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\" \/><\/p>\n<h1>How to Create an FTP Account In cPanel<\/h1>\n<p>You might need to create FTP accounts in<a href=\"https:\/\/www.trustedhosting.in\/cpanel-hosting.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> cPanel<\/a>, so that you and\/or your developers can upload and download content from your website.<\/p>\n<p>In order to do this, start by logging into the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.trustedhosting.in\/cpanel-hosting.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> cPanel<\/a> account that you want to create the FTP account for.\u00a0<span class=\"doc\">You can find our guide on this here!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Now, navigate to:<\/p>\n<pre>Files &gt;&gt; FTP Accounts<\/pre>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1014 size-full\" title=\"How to Create an FTP Account In cPanel\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.trustedhosting.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ftp_accounts_button.jpeg\" alt=\"How to Create an FTP Account In cPanel\" width=\"1386\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ftp_accounts_button.jpeg 1386w, https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ftp_accounts_button-300x65.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ftp_accounts_button-1024x223.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ftp_accounts_button-768x167.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1386px) 100vw, 1386px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You will be looking at this page:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1015 size-full\" title=\"How to Create an FTP Account In cPanel\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.trustedhosting.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ftp_accounts_page.jpeg\" alt=\"How to Create an FTP Account In cPanel\" width=\"1253\" height=\"759\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ftp_accounts_page.jpeg 1253w, https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ftp_accounts_page-300x182.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ftp_accounts_page-1024x620.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ftp_accounts_page-768x465.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1253px) 100vw, 1253px\" \/><\/p>\n<section id=\"how-to-create-an-ftp-account-in-cpanel\">Firstly, choose and input a username and password for your account.The next box is \u201cDirectory\u201d. Unless the account you\u2019re adding should only be allowed to access a specific subdirectory of the site, this can be left as blank. This will allow the FTP user to access all the files in the site\u2019s home directory.<\/p>\n<p>The last box is for \u201cQuota\u201d. This determines how much bandwidth the FTP account can use. By default, this can be left as unlimited.<\/p>\n<p>Now you can click \u201cCreate\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to Create an FTP Account In cPanel You might need to create FTP accounts in cPanel, so that you&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cpanel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1013"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11438,"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions\/11438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}