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Anonymous FTP
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.
You can enable (and disable) ANON FTP access within Edit Account Information within your
account Control Panel. Just check (or uncheck) the check box labeled "Anonymous FTP
Enabled".
ANONYMOUS FTP WARNINGS:
Security
Anonymous FTP will grant any and all users the ability to access your "upload"
directory, or any directory on your domain that has been set for "public" read/write
permissions. Anonymous users will have access to upload or download files to and from your
domain. You must set the appropriate permissions for your directories to restrict anonymous FTP
access. This is needed to ensure that anonymous users will not be able to access any existing
files or directories. You can inhibit access to specific files and directories using the File
Manager by disabling public read and/or write access to the files or folders you don't want
people to see (i.e.. cgi-local).
Responsibility
As the account owner, you are responsible for any and all files that are stored on your domain.
This would include files that were uploaded by you as well as by anonymous FTP users. With the
use of anonymous FTP, your site is susceptible of becoming a "warez" site. Typically,
these are sites that are used by "hackers" to trade (upload/download) illegally
pirated copies of software programs with one another. As the account owner, the complete
content of your account is your responsibility. If your site becomes a trading post for
"warez" programs, you may face legal action that can be taken against you by the
programmers/software companies of the copyrighted software, in addition to your account being
deleted from our servers. Please refer to our User Agreement for more information.
Data Transfer
Any and all FTP download transfers, anonymous FTP included, will be used in the calculation of
the total data transfer for your account. If this total data transfer amount exceeds the limit
that is set for your plan, you will be responsible for any and all overage charges that occur.
Please Note: There will be NO exceptions made for these overage charges. Once anonymous FTP has
been enabled, it will be your responsibility to monitor the anonymous FTP activity for your
account. All anonymous FTP activity is stored within the "xferlog" file. This file
contains entries for each and every anonymous FTP upload/download session. This file is located
within the /stats directory of your account. There is also a link provided off the "View
your web usage statistics & logs" page of your account control panel.
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.
Once you enable ANON FTP in your Control Panel, files can be accessed anonymously via FTP
client.
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.
Your anonymous ftp site is completely different from your web site.
When people ftp to your domain anonymously, they will see the following directories:
incoming/
pub/
"pub" is where you should put all your anonymously accessible files.
"incoming" is for the anonymous users to upload files.
For security the following applies:
- Only the incoming directory can be written to anonymously
- Sub-directories are not createable
- The incoming directory is not readable by people dropping files there
You are responsible for any "pirated" software uploaded by the anonymous users. The
anonymous ftp sites will be periodically monitored for any abuses.
You may ignore the other directories.
To access the anonymous FTP site via the web, use the following address:
ftp://yourdomain.com/pub/
Your htm to download a file called something.exe from a web page would look like this:
<A HREF="ftp://yourdomain.com/pub/something.exe">Download Something
Now</A>
You should tell your visitors that they may need to right-click on the link if they are PC
users, or if they use a Macintosh, they need to hold down the mouse button on the link, then
select the appropriate option from the Pop-up menu.
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