What is FTP?

FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is a method of transferring files over the Internet. You can upload your website'southward content from your local estimator to the Plesk server via FTP.

To connect to a remote server via FTP, y'all need the following information:

  • The FTP server accost in the post-obit format: ftp://your-domain-name.com , where your-domain-name.com is the domain proper name or IP accost of your website.

  • The FTP username and password, which are identical to those of your system user.

    Notation: The system user name may differ from the i you use to log in to Plesk.

    If you do not know your system user name or countersign, log in to Plesk and then go to Websites & Domains > Hosting & DNS > Web Hosting Access. Y'all volition see your credentials in the corresponding fields. On the page, y'all tin also change your organisation user name and countersign.

    If you lot need to collaborate on the website content with other users, you can create split FTP accounts for them as well.

Upload Website Content to Plesk Server via FTP

To upload the content of your website from the local computer to the Plesk server, y'all need a special program called an FTP client. In this article, we will employ FileZilla as an example.

To upload the content of your website to the Plesk server via FTP, practise the following:

  1. Launch the FTP client and fill in the fields:

    image FTP_access_log_in_by_credentials

    Host. Specify the FTP server address in the following format: ftp://your-domain-name.com where your-domain-proper name.com is the domain name or IP address of your website.

    Username and Password of your organisation user.

    Note: If you lot are behind a firewall, enable the passive mode in the FTP client.

  2. Click the Quickconnect button.

  3. On the Remote site pane, become to the httpdocs directory stored on the server.

    image FTP_access_select_files

    On the Local site pane, go to the folder with the website's content stored on your local computer. Select the files and directories you want to copy, and then in the right-click card, click Upload. If you lot apply CGI scripts, place them in the cgi-bin directory.

As a event, the content of your website is uploaded to the Plesk server.