FTP Novice here (need a lot of help)

[Novice]

Ok my boss has ask me to figure out how to set up a ftp site so others could get files but wants it password protected. First thing I set it up a subdomain with a name johndoe. Then set up an FTP account with same name and password. So I open up the ftp site and it won't let me log on with the username and password. Also why is my ftp site ##.##.##.##/public_html/johndoe instead of my domainname/johndoe? Feel Free to call me stupid because i am when it comes to this stuff. I can do a website with notepad but after that i don't have a clue with this ftp stuff.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

[agcssautomotive.com]

Lets create a subdomain first.... Create a subdomain called dist

dist.domain.com will be your subdomain where users can log in via FTP and upload or download files


Now, lets manage indexing, go to Indexing, click on dist, and disable indexing. That way when you type dist.domain.com you dont get list of files in your browser, unless you want that.

We can also password protect dist, for that go to password protect directories.


Now go to add FTP Account. For user name type me, for password type password, for directory type dist.

Now from your favorite ftp client, your site is domain.com, user name me@domain.com, password is password. Log in, and make sure you can only access files in dist, try going to partent folder, that should not be possible.

[Novice]

For some reason when i type the password in it won't work. Tried several times. I can tell that this is the way i want it. Is it because i'm using IE7?

[hammockjockey]

I followed the same directions given above and got mine to work fine. I used SmartFTP. Easy to use: just plug in the host name (aldkjflsjf.com), username (john@aldkjflsjf.com), and password. It's that easy.

[Novice]

I also got it to work on IE6 and IE7 on some computers but on some IE7 computers I can't log on and can't figure out whats blocking me from logging on.

[hammockjockey]

glad you got it to work tho!