{"id":291,"date":"2018-07-25T11:34:12","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T11:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/docs\/general-questions\/how-to-create-an-ftp-account-in-cpanel\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T09:53:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T09:53:56","slug":"how-to-create-an-ftp-account-in-cpanel","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/docs\/migration-process\/migration-preparation\/how-to-create-an-ftp-account-in-cpanel\/","title":{"rendered":"How to create an FTP account in cPanel?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you need to grant LitExtension access to your store&#8217;s files, here&#8217;s how to create an FTP account through cPanel:<\/p>\n<p>1. Log in to your cPanel dashboard using your hosting provider&#8217;s credentials.<\/p>\n<p>2. Under the Files section, click FTP Accounts.<\/p>\n<p>3. In the Add FTP Account form, fill in the required details:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Login<\/strong>: choose a username for the new FTP account.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Domain<\/strong>: select the domain this FTP account should be associated with.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Password<\/strong>: create a strong password, or use cPanel&#8217;s password generator.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Directory<\/strong>: set the specific folder this account can access. To grant access to your entire site, leave this as the default root directory.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Quota<\/strong>: set a storage limit for this account, or select &#8220;Unlimited.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>4. Click Create FTP Account to finish.<\/p>\n<p>5. Once created, you can find your new account listed under FTP Accounts, along with the server address (host), port, and connection details needed to log in.<\/p>\n<p>If you have other questions or inquiries, please contact our Support Agents via live chat or email us at <strong>litextension@support.litextension.com<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":6184,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"doc_tag":[1253,475,1249],"class_list":["post-291","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_tag-cpanel","doc_tag-data-migration","doc_tag-ftp"],"comment_count":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7709,"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/291\/revisions\/7709"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/6184"}],"next":[{"title":"How to access your account using SSH?","link":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/docs\/migration-process\/migration-preparation\/how-to-access-your-account-using-ssh\/","href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/404"}],"prev":[{"title":"What is SSH?","link":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/docs\/migration-process\/migration-preparation\/what-is-ssh\/","href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/3773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}