Anonymous FTP Access
Virtual domain account users
can allow anonymous FTP access to visitors wishing
to download or upload files to your web site as
if you were running your own FTP server.
You can enable (and disable) ANON FTP access within Edit Account Information
within your account Control Panel. Just check (or uncheck) the check box
labeled "Anonymous FTP Enabled".
Anonymous FTP warnings:
Security
Anonymous FTP will grant any and
all users the ability to access your "upload"
directory, or any directory on your domain
that has been set for "public"
read/write permissions. Anonymous
users will have access to upload or download
files to and from your domain. You must
set the appropriate permissions for your
directories to restrict
anonymous FTP access. This is needed to
ensure that anonymous users will not be
able to access any existing files or directories.
You can inhibit access to specific files
and directories using the File
Manager by disabling public read and/or
write access to the files or folders you
don't want people to see (ie. cgi-local).
Responsibility
As the account owner, you are responsible
for any and all files that are stored on
your domain. This would include files that
were uploaded by you as well as by anonymous
FTP users. With the use of anonymous FTP,
your site is susceptible of becoming a "warez"
site. Typically, these are sites that are
used by "hackers" to trade (upload/download)
illegally pirated copies of software programs
with one another. As the account owner,
the complete content of your account is
your responsibility. If your site becomes
a trading post for "warez" programs,
you may face legal action that can be taken
against you by the programmers/software
companies of the copyrighted software.
Data Transfer
Any and all FTP download transfers,
anonymous FTP included, will be used in
the calculation of the total data transfer
for your account. If this total data transfer
amount exceeds the limit that is set for
your plan, you will be responsibility
for any and all overage charges that occur.
Please Note: There will be NO exceptions
made for these overage charges. Once anonymous
FTP has been enabled, it will be your responsibility
to monitor the anonymous FTP activity for
your account. All anonymous FTP activity
is stored within the "xferlog"
file. This file contains entries for each
and every anonymous FTP upload/download
session. This file is located within the
/stats directory of your account. There
is also a link provided off the "View
your web usage statistics & logs"
page of your account control panel. You
can also have our servers perform certain
actions when your data transfer exceeds
a pre-defined limit that you can specify.
In your "Edit Account Information screen
look for the following section:
Disk Space
If you are going to allow people
to upload files to your site, make sure
you keep track of your disk space usage
via your Control Panel. Do not allow your
disk space usage to get too close to your
maximum disk space allocation or you may
experience problems accessing your site
via FrontPage and/or be unable to upload
or modify files. You may purchase additional
disk space if necessary in 5MB blocks. |
Once you enable ANON FTP in Account Settings within your Control Panel, files can be
accessed anonymously via FTP client or by using the following URL format:
- ftp://ftp.yourdomain.com/<FILENAME>
Anonymous visitors wishing to access your site via FTP client (e.g. wsftp) must use
your domain name as the FTP hostname, userid of anonymous and password of guest.
How to set a custom "Anonymous FTP Welcome Message"
When setting up anonymous ftp access to an account, you can set up a welcome message
for people browsing the site with a web browser. You can easily accomplish this by
following these instructions:
- Create a text file called welcome.msg
(Must be in lower case characters.)
- Place your greeting message into the file and save the file.
- Upload the welcome.msg file to the root directory.
(Transfer in ASCII format)
- Now set anonymous FTP active for your account.
(See this page for instructions)
Please be sure to set directory permissions for the appropriate directories.
Notes
This will only work when you link to one directory. If you link to another
directory after the initial directory the message will not be displayed. But it will be
displayed if you come back to the original directory.
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