Adding FTP Accounts

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If you are working on your website together with someone else or host subdomains for other users, you might want to create separate FTP accounts for them.

In this topic, you will learn how to add and remove additional FTP accounts, and also how to change their properties.

To create an additional FTP account:

  1. Log in to Plesk.

  2. Go to Websites & Domains, find the relevant domain, and then click FTP (under “Files & Databases”).

  3. Click Add an FTP Account.

  4. Specify the following:

    • FTP account name. Type a desired name.

    • Home directory. Select the directory to which the user will be taken when he or she connects to the FTP account.

    • Password.

    • (Plesk for Windows) Hard disk quota. To limit the amount of disk space on the server that the FTP user can occupy, clear the Unlimited checkbox next to the “Hard disk quota” box, and type the amount of disk space in megabytes.

    • (Plesk for Windows) Read permission. To allow the FTP user to view the contents of the home directory and download files from it, select the “Read permission” checkbox.

    • (Plesk for Windows) Write permission. To allow the FTP user to create, view, rename and delete directories in the home directory, select the “Write permission” checkbox.

      On Window hosting, if you do not grant any permissions, a connection to the FTP account will be made, but the contents of the home directory will not be shown to the user.

  5. Click OK.

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To change the properties of an additional FTP account:

  1. Log in to Plesk.
  2. Go to Websites & Domains, find the relevant domain, and then click FTP (under “Files & Databases”).
  3. Click the required FTP account name in the list.
  4. Make the required changes and click OK.

To remove an additional FTP account:

  1. Log in to Plesk.
  2. Go to Websites & Domains, find the relevant domain, and then click FTP (under “Files & Databases”).
  3. Select the checkbox corresponding to the FTP account you want to remove and click Remove. Note that the main FTP account of a subscription cannot be removed.
  4. Click Yes, remove.