{"id":559,"date":"2020-06-04T11:42:51","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T03:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wesbytes.com\/guide\/?post_type=kb&#038;p=559"},"modified":"2026-01-09T12:05:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T04:05:05","slug":"how-do-i-configure-my-ftp-client","status":"publish","type":"kb","link":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/kb\/how-do-i-configure-my-ftp-client","title":{"rendered":"How Do I Configure My FTP Client?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 dir=\"ltr\"><strong>How Do I Configure My FTP Client?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">To set up your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geeksforgeeks.org\/computer-science-fundamentals\/file-transfer-protocol-ftp\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FTP<\/a> client to work with your plan:<\/p>\n<p>1. Set your FTP client to connect to host ftp.yourdomain.com (replace yourdomain.com with your own web address).<br \/>\n2. Set your user name.<br \/>\n3. Set your password.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/wpsites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Setting-up-an-FTP-Client.png\" alt=\"How Do I Configure My FTP Client?\" width=\"516\" height=\"423\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i>Note:\u00a0You don\u2019t need to enter a remote directory. Your user name and password will automatically bring you to your root directory.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>When you\u2019ve entered your settings, use your client to connect to the FTP server (check your client\u2019s documentation for connection help). When you are connected, you should see a list of the files in your account.<\/p>\n<p>You can find your personal FTP settings on the \u201cFTP Manager\u201d of your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/\">Web Hosting<\/a> Control Panel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Do I Configure My FTP Client? To set up your FTP client to work with your plan: 1. Set your FTP client to connect to host ftp.yourdomain.com (replace yourdomain.com with your own web address). 2. Set your user name. 3. Set your password. Note:\u00a0You don\u2019t need to enter a remote directory. Your user name and password will automatically bring&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"kbtopic":[22],"kbtag":[1632],"class_list":["post-559","kb","type-kb","status-publish","hentry","kbtopic-file-transfer-protocol-ftp","kbtag-ftp-client"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5560,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/559\/revisions\/5560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kbtopic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kbtopic?post=559"},{"taxonomy":"kbtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kbtag?post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}