Virtual domain account users can allow anonymous FTP access to visitors wishing to download or upload files to your web site as if you were running your own FTP server.
By default, all files and directories within your ANON FTP account are set for NO ACCESS. You need to contact support to request the enabling of ANON FTP. Please read the annonymous ftp disclaimer below before ordering.
Once ANON FTP is enabled, files can be accessed anonymously via FTP client or by using the following URL format:
Anonymous FTP - You can provide anonymous FTP access for your users also. The directory you would use for this would be related to your IP number. For example, if your IP number is 209.196.55.1, then your anonymous FTP directory would be /var/spool/ftp/209.196.55.1. You would then place your files in the /pub directory there. (Yes, that directory structure is necessary.) You can also customize the welcome.msg. If you don't know your IP number, then you can use the command nslookup yourdomainname.com to find it out.
Anonymous visitors wishing to access your site via FTP client (e.g., wsftp) must use your domain name as the FTP hostname, userid of anonymous and password of guest.
Anonymous FTP is disabled on
our servers. We can turn on the permissions for the anonymous Ftp directories on an
individual basis pursuant to customer request (including domain name, userid and
password). However, it has been our experience that except in rare cases, anonymous FTP is
not really necessary. If you have files that you wish to make available for download by
the general public, we suggest placing links to those files directly on your web pages.
For example:
Place the file named file.exe in the following directory:
/mnt/web/guide/yourdomainname/download/
Place this code on your web page:
<a href="http://yourdomainname.com/download/file.exe">click here to
download file</a>
Following a link to a .zip or .exe file on our servers, automatically invokes an http
process that will take precedence over ftp processes, resulting in faster downloads, so
this is to your advantage. We suggest using Winzip or Stuffit to compress any one file or
any group of files (any format) into one .zip or .exe (self extracting zip file). This
will further lessen download time.
If you need to provide upload access, we suggest using an FTPOnly Account. This costs
$5/quarter or $20/year and provides a separate directory under your root with its own
ftponly login id and password that you can divulge to those you wish to grant upload
access. This ftponly login id will not have access outside this ftponly directory. Since
you choose the password for this ftponly user id, you can access files in this directory
by logging in as this user id. For example: Your domain is bob.com and your userid is
bill. You want to give Tom a place to upload his own files and have them accessible to
people on the web but don't want Tom to have access to your directories. So, we set up a
userid called bill01 and a directory called
/mnt/web/guide/bob/tomsplace.
When Tom log's in via ftp he uses the same info you do, only he adds a 01 after your
userid (bill) and uses his own password. Although he can create directories inside of
/tomsplace, he can't access anything outside of /tomsplace. Since you assign the password
for Tom to use, you can always log in as bill01 and delete Tom's stuff if it becomes too
large. Tom's pages are visible on the web as:
http://bob.com/tomsplace/file.html
If you absolutely must provide upload access to the general public, we will enable it. This will give anybody the ability to upload large files in subdirectories that they create that you may not be able to delete (ftp bombing), thus pushing your total disk usage above the size allowed for by your pricing plan, resulting in additional charges. If Computer Pal, Inc. is required to delete these unwanted or inaccessible files or directories, there will be a $30 service fee. The general public will also have the ability to upload commercial software that could possibly place you in violation of copyright law. Computer Pal, Inc. bears no responsibility or liability for the contents of your anonymous ftp directories once you have requested that they be enabled.