Using a URL such as ftp://ftp.your_domain.com/pub/your_domain/ anyone can access files you make available for anonymous FTP access. Note that these files do not have any access control on them.
If you would like to make the files available only to certain people using a username and password based access control, you will have to either:In order to create an anonymous FTP area, send an email request to support@sharedhosting.net specifying your domain name and the username of its primary administrative account. You will receeve an email confirmation back with further instructions, such as:
- Sign up for a new shell account at http://sharedhosting.net/support/email/mailbox.html, so it can be accessed with the URL ftp://username@ftp://ftp.your_domain.com/export/home/username/ftpfile that will prompt the visitor for the password, or
- Make password-protected directories under your Website. You can find the instructions at http://sharedhosting.net/support/passwords/index.htm.
host: ftp.your_domain.com, also aliased to ftp.sharedhosting.net directory: /ftp/pub/your_domain/
This directory is write accessible to the user owner of the domain. As the owner user, you may upload files into this area by specifying the host and directory names stated above to an FTP tool such as ws_ftp or fetch.
A file in this area can be accessed using the URL: ftp://ftp.your_domainprefix.com/pub/your_domain/ftpfile
When you request an anonymous FTP area, the username of the primary administrative account is given permission to place files in your anonymous ftp area.
You may do the uploads using an FTP client such as fetch, cuteftp, or ws_ftp. The parameters used to upload to your anonymous ftp area are:
server: ftp.your_domain.com path: /ftp/pub/your_domain/
The following access is made available on a limited basis and is subject to be withdrawn at any moment and is subject result in very high network traffic usage charges to you as anyone on the Internet can misuse your FTP area and this feature:
Limited anonymous upload access is given into an incoming ftp area. This is under the directory /ftp/pub/your_domain/incoming when logged in through anonymous FTP. In other words, it is ftp://ftp.your_domain.com/pub/your_domain/incoming. Please note that any one on the Internet can delete and modify these files as well since there is no access control on them. Above mentioned use of a shell account is highly recommended for this purpose.