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As I mentioned before in a previous lesson , in order to create a website , there are two methods to upload your website content from your computer to your web host space , the first using file manager in the Cpanel and the second is to upload your files using FTP programs like WS_FTP program , Cute FTP , and others .

What is Meant by FTP ?

FTP is stand for ” File Transfer Protocol ” and it is a well develop method that’s allow you transfer any kind of files from your computer to your website , so we are going to use it to upload our website content to our web host space .

What is meant by FTP programs ?

FTP programs are programs that designed to allow you transfer your website content including files , folders , images..etc , from your computer to your web host space , or you can use these programs to download any files on your website to your computer .

So we are going today to learn how to upload our website files , folders and pictures using the second method which is uploading through FTP programs like WS_FTP .

In order to upload your files using FTP programs , you must first create a FTP account from Cpanel , then you use this account to access to your website within the FTP programs .
So I’m going to explain today how to create the FTP account . later in another tutorial , I will explain to you how use this account with FTP programs and start uploading your files .

Remember : your Cpanel username and password are considered as a FTP account , so that you can login to your website within FTP programs using this main login information . you may need to create a new FTP account if you are more than one ( team work ) working on the same website , or you may create a new FTP account with different permissions , so that you can give permissions to make this new account use only a specific region on your website .
For example you can create a folder on your website for your friend to upload his files and images on the internet to share them , so you can create a new FTP account for him giving him the availability to access only to the folder you create for him not the whole website and you can also limit the size of his uploaded files .

Anyway remember : your Cpanel login information = your main FTP account with all permissions .

So to create a new FTP account , login to your Cpanel account first , then search for the button ” FTP Accounts ” , then click on it .

Now put your desired FTP information

Directory field is the directory you wanna give this FTP account the permission to access ( your friend folder ) , leave it blank if you want to give this account permission to access to all your website content .
The directory path will be in the form of : ” public_html/xxxx ” , where xxxx is the name of the directory or folder ( i.e. your friend folder )

Quota: (MB) is the maximum size in MB of the directory or folder you have specified in the directory field , you can put the size in order to limit the directory size . leave it blank if there is no directory filed submitted .

Now Click on Create .

You will see now your new FTP account information with it’s permission and size .

Now we have two account we can use to upload our files and folders , the main FTP account and this new account .
Anyway we are going to use the main FTP account to access to our website as it have all the permissions , however you must know how to create a new FTP account .