{"id":6996,"date":"2012-11-08T02:13:47","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T02:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/?p=6996"},"modified":"2012-11-08T02:14:23","modified_gmt":"2012-11-08T02:14:23","slug":"how-to-connect-to-your-website-using-ftp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/how-to-connect-to-your-website-using-ftp\/affordablewebsitestips\/tutorials","title":{"rendered":"How to use FTP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this tutorial I will show you how to connect to your website \u00a0hosting account via FTP using the free FTP program Filezilla(<a title=\"download filezilla\" href=\"http:\/\/filezilla-project.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">download<\/a>). I will also show you how to upload and download files.<\/p>\n<p>First, you need to create an FTP account. This process\u00a0varies depending on your hosting company. Contact your hosting company and ask them how you can create an FTP account. You should end up with these login variables:<\/p>\n<h3>Ftp login information<\/h3>\n<p>Host:\u00a0ftp.mywebsite.com<br \/>\nUsername:\u00a0myusername<br \/>\nPassword:\u00a0mypassword<\/p>\n<p>If you're a 2slick.com customer, your cPanel username and password will work as your ftp username and password. You host will be 'ftp.<span style=\"color: red;\">yourdomain.com<\/span>'.<\/p>\n<h3>How to connect to your hosting account using Filesilla FTP<\/h3>\n<p>After you've installed your Filezilla ftp program open the program.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Enter 'host', 'username' and 'password' variables in the\u00a0corresponding\u00a0fields and leave the port field blank for now.<\/li>\n<li>Click the 'Quickconnect' button. You know you've connected successfully when you see the message 'Directory listing successful'.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/ftp_directory_listing_successful.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"ftp_directory_listing_successful\" src=\"http:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/ftp_directory_listing_successful.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"355\" height=\"143\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Your 'Local site' column is a listing of your computer's directories\/files and your 'Remote site' column is a listing of your server's directories\/files.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/filezilla_ftp.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"filezilla_ftp\" src=\"http:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/filezilla_ftp.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/li>\n<li>You can now hold down left mouse click on a file or directory to drag it over from or to your local and remote sites.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this tutorial I will show you how to connect to your website \u00a0hosting account via FTP using the free FTP program Filezilla(download). I will also show you how to upload and download files. First, you need to create an FTP account. This process\u00a0varies depending on your hosting company. Contact your hosting company and ask [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,492],"tags":[582],"class_list":["post-6996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tutorials","category-websites-2","tag-ftp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6996"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6999,"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6996\/revisions\/6999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}