After you became familiar
with your virtual server structure and know how to upload your content
online, it is good to think of whether you want to have more than just
one FTP user and if there are any areas on your web that you would like
to protect from public access. The Site Users option in
Host Pilot control panel allows you to manage both Web and FTP users, their home
directories, directory password protection, and FrontPage users group
management. These are possible usage scenarios:
- To make your FTP site available to multiple users,
which would have their separate home directories with desired level of FTP access (read,
write, or both):
- To restrict access to a part of your Web site, so the
users will have to provide username and password combinations to
access this portion of the site:
- To add Administrators and Authors
to your FrontPage Webs from the site users’ list, so several people
can edit the same web using FrontPage:
The "FTProot" directory
located on the same level as Htdocs and Database is a virtual root of
the FTP server. Thus, the FTP root directory is D:\FTP\Username\FTProot
(or, \FTProot). "Public" directory under "FTProot" is accessible for all
site users via FTP with "Read" and "Write" permissions. Additional
directories can be created under \FTProot for the site users in the case
you want to have an FTP site with multiple users.
All site users that you create will have List FTP access to the \FTProot
directory.
Important Notes:
- Every time a new user is created a virtual FTP directory is also
created. The name of the virtual directory matches username. The
virtual directory points to the directory you selected as Path.
- The virtual directories are not listed when you do DIR (listing)
in your FTP root (\FTProot). The only directories shown are the
physical directories for FTP users that you created under \FTProot.
To change the directory to a virtual directory you will need to type
in "blindly" CD \VirtualDirectoryName.
- If you delete a virtual directory, you will in fact delete the
physical directory with its content. DO NOT delete virtual
directories, let the system manage it.
- When you want to delete a physical directory, delete the user
first, then the directory. If you do not delete the user first,
there will be a "dangling" virtual directory in your FTP server.
- Please do not delete \Public directory. You will not be able to
re-create the directory with access granted to all site users. You
will need to contact Intermedia Technical Support to correct the
problem.
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