{"id":11883,"date":"2026-05-20T05:12:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T05:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/?p=11883"},"modified":"2026-05-20T11:49:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T11:49:00","slug":"how-to-make-hidden-files-visible-from-cpanel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/how-to-make-hidden-files-visible-from-cpanel\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Make Hidden File Visible from cPanel File Manager?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To view hidden files in cPanel File Manager, you need to enable the option that displays all hidden files (dotfiles) inside your account and subdirectories.<\/p>\n<h3>Steps to Show Hidden Files in cPanel<\/h3>\n<h4>1. Log in to Your cPanel Account<\/h4>\n<p>Access your hosting cPanel using your username and password.<\/p>\n<h4>2. Open File Manager<\/h4>\n<ul data-spread=\"false\">\n<li>Go to the <strong>FILES<\/strong> section.<\/li>\n<li>Click on <strong>File Manager<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The File Manager interface will open in a new browser tab<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/click-on-filemanager.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11887 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/click-on-filemanager-1024x280.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/click-on-filemanager-1024x280.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/click-on-filemanager-300x82.png 300w, https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/click-on-filemanager-768x210.png 768w, https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/click-on-filemanager.png 1458w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>3. Open Settings<\/h4>\n<ul data-spread=\"false\">\n<li>In the top-right corner of File Manager, click the <strong>Settings<\/strong> button.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/click-on-settings-on-file-manager.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11886 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/click-on-settings-on-file-manager-1024x213.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/click-on-settings-on-file-manager-1024x213.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/click-on-settings-on-file-manager-300x62.png 300w, https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/click-on-settings-on-file-manager-768x160.png 768w, https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/click-on-settings-on-file-manager-1536x320.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/click-on-settings-on-file-manager.png 1894w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A Preferences popup window will appear.<\/p>\n<h4>4. Enable Hidden Files<\/h4>\n<ul data-spread=\"false\">\n<li>Locate the option:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Show Hidden Files (dotfiles)<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul data-spread=\"false\">\n<li>Check the box next to this option.<\/li>\n<li>Click <strong>Save<\/strong>.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/tick-mark-on-show-hidden-files.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11885 size-full\" title=\"how-to-make-midden-files-visible-from-cPanel-file-manager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/tick-mark-on-show-hidden-files.png\" alt=\"how-to-make-midden-files-visible-from-cPanel-file-manager\" width=\"579\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/tick-mark-on-show-hidden-files.png 579w, https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/tick-mark-on-show-hidden-files-300x203.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 579px) 100vw, 579px\" \/><\/a>You will now be able to view all hidden files and folders inside your cPanel File Manager<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To view hidden files in cPanel File Manager, you need to enable the option that displays all hidden files (dotfiles)&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11883","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=11883"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11929,"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11883\/revisions\/11929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}