
You should be able to find this information in your website’s ‘New Account’ e-mail sent when you registered with us.
This is the FTP username for your website. This is how we’re going to log into the FTP server. Keep it on the default ‘Use explicit FTP over TLS if available’ for now. This is the encryption for your FTP connection. Keep it on the default ‘FTP - File Transfer Protocol’ for now. This is the FTP protocol for your site. This is the Host IP of your website’s FTP.
This will be the label for your website’s FTP connection. To configure your first FTP site, please follow the steps below:Ĭlick the button at the top-left of the window labeled in the image below. While this is not a required step to establish an FTP connection, taking the time to configure an FTP site will allow for you to initiate FTP connections with a single click instead of manually re-entering connection settings each time that you need to upload or download files from your site. Once the FTP client has been installed successfully, you are then ready to configure your first FTP site on the client. Click ‘ Install’ when ready.Īfter ensuring the box ‘ Start FileZilla now’ is checked, click ‘ Finish’. Once the location is decided, choose the name of the Start Menu Folder, or leave it at default. Then, ensure all the boxes in the image below are checked, then click ‘ Next >’.Īfter that, select the location you want to install FileZilla or leave it at default. Next, click ‘Only for me (username)’, then click ‘ Next >’. To do so, navigate to the directory that you downloaded the installer file to and double-click it to run the installer.įor the first step of the FileZilla installer, click ‘I agree’. Now that the installer has been download, you will need to execute the file to start the installation process. The environment used for this article is Windows, so the link titled FileZilla_3.35.2_win64-setup.exe was clicked and it is now downloaded to the local PC. Install and setup should be extremely similar on Mac OS once FileZilla is downloaded. Note: For this part of the guide, we’ll be assuming that your operating system is Windows. If your operating system is Mac OS, click the link under the bold title Mac OS X. If it is Windows, click the link under the bold title Windows (64bit). The next step will depend on what operating system you have on your computer. We’ll start by going to the download page here:. Picking the right version of FileZilla is rather simple. A common FTP application that we recommend for new site administrators is Filezilla’s FTP Client for its ease of use and wealth of documentation for local configurations.