How to Create an FTP Account in Helm

One of the primary ways that website owners keep their files organized is by creating and managing FTP accounts. These accounts give specified users specialized access to certain subdirectories to which they have been assigned. It's a vital tool that helps you actually populate your web pages from various user outlets. The best part is that they can be managed with a high degree of certainty, with the authority of each FTP user easily changed. If it seems confusing, just walk through the following steps using Helm.

Steps to FTP Accounts in Helm

  1. Make sure that you are logged in to your Helm Account
  2. To create a new FTP account, click on the "My Domains" icon
  3. Click on the domain for which you want to create FTP access
  4. Scroll down
  5. Click on the "FTP Accounts" icon
  6. Click on the "Add" button
  7. Enter a username for the new FTP account
  8. Enter a password for access
  9. Reenter the password in the box provided
  10. Specify your home directory
  11. Clicking on the image to the right of the root directory will let you change it
  12. Scroll down
  13. Select or deselect the options you desire
  14. Click on the "Save" button when you're ready
  15. That's it. Come back to the same page to edit, delete or add new FTP accounts in the future.

 

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Getting your website's functions in working order has never been so easy. Helm takes the complexities of FTP account management, subdirectory listings and MySQL data basing, to name a few, and puts them into a clean and simple interface that allows users of virtually any skill level to easily manipulate their website's vital systems. Transferring files, deleting data and delegating site permissions and access are some of the other tasks Helm can help web managers with.