FTP accounts
The setting of FTP accounts for export or sites installation.
These accounts are used in tools such as:
- Export to static sites
- Export and uploading
- CMS Installer
It does not matter for what tool you need to create accounts, the settings are the same.
Basic settings
- Host - the address to which you want the program to connect
- Port - the port for the connection (usually port 21)
- Login - user login
- Password - user password
Additional settings
It is important to properly configure additional settings; especially parameter - Default directory. The folder in which the program will try to send files depends from this parameter. The following illustration will help you understand where it gets the value for this parameter:
If after login to your account you get the desired folder, then the field should be left blank.
Parameters Passive mode and ASCII mode must be activated, if required by your server.
The maximum number of connections - the parameter which is responsible for a maximum number of threads you can upload files to the server. The more - the faster, but each hosting has their own limits and it is advisable not to expose this option more than possible.
Testing
In order to understand is everything was made right, press Test button, it tries to establish a connection and displays a complete log of the results. It is not very difficult to read this log; lets walk through an example of such a log, and define some standard messages:
220---------- Welcome to Pure-FTPd [privsep] [TLS] ---------- 220-You are user number 1 of 50 allowed. 220-Local time is now 10:50. Server port: 21. 220-This is a private system - No anonymous login 220-IPv6 connections are also welcome on this server. 220 You will be disconnected after 15 minutes of inactivity. USER test 331 User test OK. Password required PASS 111111 230-User test has group access to: test1 sshusers 230 OK. Current restricted directory is / CWD / 250 OK. Current directory is / CWD /web/ 250 OK. Current directory is /web QUIT 221-Goodbye. You uploaded 0 and downloaded 0 kbytes. 221 Logout.
The first 6 lines - a greeting from the server. In each server, it may be different. In this case, useful information can be found on the second line, where indicated, the maximum number of connections for this account - 50.
In the 7th line, the program sends the server login. The server checks whether a user with that name exist and if there it does (8th line), asks for a password. In the 9th line, the program sends the password in response the server should send is the password right or not.
Next comes an attempt to get into the correct directory. If everything is correct, then you should get a response similar to that described in the 15th line.