{"id":1395,"date":"2019-02-08T10:36:05","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T10:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/support\/2019\/02\/08\/1583645-how-to-enable-ssh-access-in-hostinger\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T07:13:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T07:13:32","slug":"1583645-how-to-enable-ssh-access-in-hostinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/1583645-how-to-enable-ssh-access-in-hostinger\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Enable SSH Access in Hostinger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"no-margin\">If your hosting plan is Web Premium or greater, you can <b><a href=\"\/support\/1583245-how-can-i-log-in-to-my-account-via-ssh\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">access your hosting via SSH<\/a><\/b>. The SSH access type is restricted to your <b>home directory and below<\/b>.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">To establish an SSH connection,<b> <\/b>first, you will need to enable it by heading to <b><a href=\"https:\/\/hpanel.hostinger.com\/websites\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\" rel=\"noopener\">Websites<\/a> &rarr; Dashboard <\/b>and searching for <b>SSH Access<\/b> on the sidebar:<\/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\/c19a955e-c1af-4584-a11e-c5e50049eb24.jpg\" alt=\"The SSH Access menu option\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">On the <b>SSH status<\/b>, click on <b>Enable<\/b>:<\/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\/f17a19e1-f8f8-4bc6-907a-4e12c7420af6.jpg\" alt=\"The Enable button on SSH status to allow for SSH connections\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">That&rsquo;s it! Now you will be able to connect to your account using SSH.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-interblocks-callout\" style=\"background-color: #e3e7fa80;border-color: #334bfa33\">\n<p class=\"no-margin\">If you have a Single hosting plan and you definitely need SSH access, you can consider <b><a href=\"\/support\/1583459-how-can-i-upgrade-my-hosting-account\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">upgrading your hosting plan<\/a><\/b> &#128640; <\/p>\n<\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enabling access via SSH to your Web or Cloud hosting plan at Hostinger<\/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":[235],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ssh-connection-and-ssh-keys"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/1583645-how-to-enable-ssh-access-in-hostinger\/","default":1},{"locale":"es-ES","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/es\/support\/1583645-como-habilitar-el-acceso-ssh-en-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"fr-FR","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/fr\/support\/1583645-comment-activer-l-acces-ssh-chez-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"id-ID","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/id\/support\/1583645-cara-mengaktifkan-ssh-access-di-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"pt-PT","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/br\/support\/1583645-como-habilitar-o-acesso-ssh-no-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"uk-UA","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/ua\/support\/1583645-----ssh--hostinger\/","default":0}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395","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=1395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5093,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/revisions\/5093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}