{"id":1340,"date":"2019-02-08T10:36:09","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T10:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/support\/2019\/02\/08\/1714427-how-to-find-ftp-details-on-hpanel-at-hostinger\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T12:12:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T12:12:15","slug":"1714427-how-to-find-ftp-details-on-hpanel-at-hostinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/1714427-how-to-find-ftp-details-on-hpanel-at-hostinger\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Find FTP Details on hPanel at Hostinger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"no-margin\">An FTP account is automatically created by default after setting up your hosting (except when using the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/website-builder\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">Hostinger Website Builder<\/a> for all your websites). To locate the FTP details, go to <b><a href=\"https:\/\/hpanel.hostinger.com\/websites\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\" rel=\"noopener\">Websites<\/a> <\/b>&rarr; <b>Dashboard<\/b>, find <b>FTP Accounts<\/b> in the sidebar, and click on it.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">There you will find your FTP details:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2019\/02\/e817e93f-0015-442a-b3a1-af899cb683a6.jpg\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\"><b>FTP IP <\/b>&ndash; Your hosting IP, used as hostname to connect via FTP.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\"><b>FTP Username <\/b>&ndash; This value is unique per each domain or website added to your hosting plan.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\"><b>FTP Port<\/b> &ndash; The port value for plain FTP is 21.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\"><b>Folder to upload files<\/b> &ndash; The folder where you should upload your website&rsquo;s files is <b>public_html<\/b> for the root domain. You may go one level deeper if you want to upload files to a subfolder, but avoid going higher than the <b>public_html <\/b>folder, as they will not be publicly accessible.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\"><b>Forgot your FTP password?<\/b> &ndash; The option to <a href=\"#h_dc421019d0\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">set a new FTP password<\/a> for the selected website.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\"><b>Recommended FTP clients<\/b> &ndash; The option to download and install an FTP client on your local device.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul><div class=\"intercom-interblocks-callout\" style=\"background-color: #e3e7fa80;border-color: #334bfa33\">\n<p class=\"no-margin\">The main FTP details (IP, username and upload path ) are also displayed on the <a href=\"\/support\/1583276-how-to-find-the-details-of-your-hosting-plan\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">Details<\/a> page of hPanel.<\/p>\n<\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><h2 id=\"h_dc421019d0\">Managing your FTP password<\/h2><p class=\"no-margin\">For security reasons, the FTP password isn&rsquo;t displayed in hPanel. If you&rsquo;re unsure of the FTP password or you haven&rsquo;t set up one yet, you can <a href=\"\/support\/5634574-how-to-change-your-ftp-password-on-hpanel\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">create or update it<\/a> by clicking the <b>Change FTP Password<\/b> button. <\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">For hosting plans with SSH access, the SSH password defaults to the main domain&rsquo;s FTP password. However, you can create a separate <a href=\"\/support\/6440760-how-to-change-ssh-password-on-hpanel\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">SSH-only password<\/a> if needed. Keep in mind that changing the main domain&rsquo;s FTP password will also automatically update the SSH password to match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Connect to your web or cloud hosting using FTP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"include_on_kodee":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[193],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ftp-and-sftp"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/1714427-how-to-find-ftp-details-on-hpanel-at-hostinger\/","default":1},{"locale":"es-ES","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/es\/support\/1714427-como-encontrar-los-detalles-de-ftp-en-hpanel-de-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"fr-FR","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/fr\/support\/1714427-comment-trouver-les-details-du-ftp-sur-hpanel-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"id-ID","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/id\/support\/1714427-di-mana-saya-bisa-menemukan-detail-ftp-di-hostinger-hpanel\/","default":0},{"locale":"pt-PT","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/br\/support\/1714427-como-encontrar-detalhes-de-ftp-no-hpanel-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"uk-UA","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/ua\/support\/1714427----ftp----hpanel-a\/","default":0}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5073,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions\/5073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}