 Anonymous
FTP
Anonymous FTP feature provides FTP access to visitors without requiring
a username or password. For security reasons, users are only allowed
to upload to one folder and download from another. This prevents
abuse of the Anonymous FTP feature where hackers would try to user
your account to distribute illegal files.
We strongly encourage you to keep this feature disabled unless
you're going to use it. You can check the status, enable, or disable
this feature by clicking on the "AnonFTP" icon in your
Site Manager. You may also need to clean the "incoming"
folder out regularly since hackers will upload files to test if
they can use your account to distribute files, which they will find
that they cannot.
If you exchange files with a client and don't want anyone
to have access to these files and don't want to give your client
full FTP access to your account. FTP
User Manager may be right for you.
Once setup from the Control Panel, anonymous FTP folders are located
here:
/home/$username/$domain-anonftp
This directory will by default contain the following directories
along with a welcome message which you can edit via a text editor:
/incoming
/pub
The "pub" directory is where you should put files that
you want to have visitors anonymously download.
Vistors can access this directory via a browser by going to:
ftp://$domain.com/pub
Note, we do not allow clients the ability to allow users to both
upload and download to the same directory. We do this for security
reasons. You will need to user regular FTP access with your account
name and password to move files from the incoming directory to the
pub directory if you wish to have uploaded files available for download.
To get an incoming directory, please request one by submittng a
Help Desk Ticket.
The incoming directory would be:
ftp://$domain.com/incoming
This directory is writable from the web but NOT readable. No one
coming in from the web (or from an FTP program logging in as "anonymous")
can see what files are stored here.
Anonymous FTP warnings:
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. As the account owner, the complete content
of your account is your responsibility even though files can be
uploaded by anyone in the world. 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 responsible
for any and all overage charges that occur. Once anonymous FTP has
been enabled, it will be your responsibility to monitor the anonymous
FTP activity for your account.
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.
Once you enable ANON FTP, files can be accessed anonymously via
FTP client or by using the following URL format:
ftp://yourdomain.com/<FILENAME>
Anonymous visitors wishing to access your site via FTP client (e.g.
ws_ftp) must use the following information:
FTP hostname: yourdomain.com
userid: anonymous
password: guest
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