Anonymous FTP is the ability to upload and/or download files from our servers without having a login username and password. Obviously, for security reasons, we only allow anonymous FTP to specific directories.

How do I setup Anonymous FTP?
Just click on the anonymous FTP button in your account control panel and anonymous FTP will be set up on your account.

After anonymous FTP is setup, it will create a directory called domainname-anonftp in the user's home directory. This directory will by default contain the following directories:

/incoming
/pub

/pub is where the client should put files that they want to have users anonymously download. Users can access this directory via a browser by going to:

ftp://domainname.com/pub

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

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. The client is responsible for moving files from the incoming directory to the pub directory if they wish for uploaded files also to be downloaded.

The incoming directory would be:

ftp://domainname.com/incoming

This directory is writeable 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 can be useful for resellers who want to allow their clients to update their pages but don't want to give them full FTP access. The clients would upload to incoming and the reseller would move the files into domainname-www.

To access the anonymous FTP directories that have been created, just go into your FTP program and put in your domain name or ip address as the server, and then just check the box that says "Anonymous FTP". You will automatically be taken to the anonymous FTP directories.

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.

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