{"id":990,"date":"2020-06-04T18:07:18","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T10:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wesbytes.com\/guide\/?post_type=kb&#038;p=990"},"modified":"2026-01-12T12:24:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T04:24:42","slug":"creating-sub-domain-ftp-account-in-cpanel","status":"publish","type":"kb","link":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/kb\/creating-sub-domain-ftp-account-in-cpanel","title":{"rendered":"Simple Guide to Creating a Subdomain FTP Account in cPanel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<h3 dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Creating Sub Domain FTP Account in cPanel<\/strong><\/h3>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>1. Log into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpanel.net\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">cPanel\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">2. Go to \u201cFiles\u201d menu<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">3. Click on \u201cFTP Account\u201d.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">4. You will see \u201cAdd FTP Account\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">a) \u201cLogin\u201d is exactly as your sub domain name.(Example: If your sub domain is support.exabytes.com, enter \u201csupport\u201d as login.)<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">b) Enter Password.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">c) Directory is your sub domain directory. (Example: \/home\/exabytes\/public_html\/support\/ )<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">5. Click \u201ccreate\u201d to add this sub domain FTP user.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/Kw8_Ou6MjavHBtB6-jVLBoAot4gknUmy0L-VvPtM1k1dbZqfXlH8XE0mXILPkmcSItqCae2qZC8zBw-EybiqMjuIHrM4GE2PqjEMoP8dPJcdLpRo3Vv0dxU0x4FFvtzGclpuPKVH\" alt=\"Creating Sub Domain FTP Account in cPanel\" width=\"738\" height=\"565\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creating Sub Domain FTP Account in cPanel 1. Log into cPanel\u00a0 2. Go to \u201cFiles\u201d menu 3. Click on \u201cFTP Account\u201d. 4. You will see \u201cAdd FTP Account\u201d a) \u201cLogin\u201d is exactly as your sub domain name.(Example: If your sub domain is support.exabytes.com, enter \u201csupport\u201d as login.) b) Enter Password. c) Directory is your sub domain directory. (Example: \/home\/exabytes\/public_html\/support\/ )&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"kbtopic":[34],"kbtag":[1513],"class_list":["post-990","kb","type-kb","status-publish","hentry","kbtopic-cpanel","kbtag-ftp-account"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/990","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=990"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5932,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/990\/revisions\/5932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kbtopic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kbtopic?post=990"},{"taxonomy":"kbtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kbtag?post=990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}