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cPanel User Guide and Tutorial

By : Aric Pedersen
Book Image

cPanel User Guide and Tutorial

By: Aric Pedersen

Overview of this book

"A great book for getting the most out of your cPanel-supporting web host" If you have web hosting requirements beyond the most basic, you should look for a host that offers cPanel. cPanel gives you tight control over every aspect of your web site, email accounts, and domain names. But once you've got a web site with cPanel support, how do you go about using it? While the documentation included with cPanel may provide a quick reference, to really get the most from it you need a more detailed, systematic tutorial. Read this book to find out exactly how to get the most from cPanel in all aspects of your web site management: web, email, FTP, security, domains, back ups, and more.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
cPanel: User Guide and Tutorial
Credits
About the Author
Preface
Glossary

Anonymous FTP Access


From the FTP Manager screen you can also set up or control anonymous FTP access. Anonymous FTP allows people without FTP accounts to access a special public_ftp directory to upload or download files.

Note

Anonymous FTP access (especially anonymous FTP uploads) can be a big security risk, so your web host may not permit you to turn this feature on. If anonymous FTP access is turned off on your web server, accessing any of cPanel’s anonymous FTP options won’t affect anything. You should contact your web host if you want to know if they support anonymous FTP access.

To turn anonymous FTP access on or off, you should click Setup Anonymous FTP Access from the FTP Manager screen in cPanel. You will be presented with two simple checkboxes. The first allows you to offer anonymous (public) FTP access to ftp.domain.com (only the public_ftp directory). The next checkbox allows anonymous (public) FTP upload access to your ftp.domain.com/public_ftp/incoming/ directory. Both of these...