Forum Moderators: phranque
I'm running CPanel and WHM for admin on a Windows Vista comp; my goal tonight is to just connect to a FTP. Any FTP.
Also, right off the bat I get a message:
"The hostname ( (my website IP).tpa.sagonet.com) resolves to . It should resolve to (my website IP). Please be sure to correct /etc/hosts as well as the 'A' entry in zone file for the domain.
Some are all of these problems can be caused by
/etc/resolv.conf being setup incorrectly. Please check this file if you
believe everything else is correct."
I'm not asking for step-by-step instructions or anything, but I've looked around for four hours and I'm not finding anything.
I found this tutorial that would have worked perfectly... but it cuts off right when it gets to what I'm looking for. Can anyone help me out or at least point me somewhere so I can learn how to actually use my site?
[edited by: StoutFiles at 2:37 am (utc) on July 19, 2008]
[edited by: phranque at 7:48 am (utc) on July 19, 2008]
[edit reason] No urls, please. See TOS [webmasterworld.com] [/edit]
Your host may be able to set it up for you too, is it managed?
I literally have no idea how to create an FTP account. Supposedly there's an FTP Accounts button to create one according to tutorials but I haven't seen it and I've searched through everything.
I don't know Linux all that well...what could I switch to to make this easier for me? My knowledge of webpage management involves opening up FTP, throwing in my files and an .htaccess, and that's it. I don't understand what 90% of this stuff does for this dedicated server and I'd like to learn it all, but I'm on a time constraint to get my site back up and working.
But I've gotten past the point of creating ftp accounts and such, my site is online & active for over 4 months (knock on wood).
What version of cpanel do you have? An old version is not recommended as some security enhancements have been released as of late.
Nevertheless, if you have cpanel on a dedicated, you'll likely have WHM.
Go to [[whatever_your_server_IP_is]...]
Login with the credentials your data center given you.
Head to:
Account Functions: Create a New Account -> load the info.
Regardless, if you supply a fake domain, it will still allow you ftp access (just not to that domain, if it belongs to someone else).
the data you enter on this page is you FTP logins, so save them.
Once you're done & saved everything, open your favorite ftp client and login with the following:
host: [your server ip, given by data center]
user: Username (from last page we were on in WHM)
pass: same as above, only for password
port: 21 (check with your host to make sure they don't automatically change the ftp port, if you cannot login!)
that should do it. That is how I created my first ftp account on my new server.
If you do not have cpanel from [cpanel.net...] - what do you have, specifically? Some control panels are different from the brand "cpanel"
If you do not know what you are doing, it might be best to let them get you setup, and then ask for a list of the things they did to the server so you know for next time.
I did email the ISP but they weren't much help; maybe I wasn't getting across that I just wanted a FTP account for my IP.
Also check out the Security Center in WHM.
You can deny access to outsiders trying to crack your ftp data (how a lot of servers have allegedly gotten hacked lately).
Service:
ftp
IP:
[my ip]
rule:
Allow
...ban rest of the world...
Service:
ftp
IP:
ALL
rule:
deny
