{"id":1569,"date":"2019-02-08T10:35:54","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T10:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/support\/2019\/02\/08\/1583246-how-to-create-additional-ftp-accounts-in-hostinger\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T10:36:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T10:36:29","slug":"1583246-how-to-create-additional-ftp-accounts-in-hostinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/1583246-how-to-create-additional-ftp-accounts-in-hostinger\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Create Additional FTP Accounts in Hostinger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"no-margin\">While one FTP account is always created by default once you set up your hosting account, multiple FTP accounts are great if more than one user will be accessing your website&rsquo;s files. You can also restrict the new account&rsquo;s access by allowing it to access only specific folders.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\"><b>NOTE<\/b><\/p><ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">FTP is not available for websites created with <b><a class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/website-builder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hostinger Website Builder<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul><p class=\"no-margin\">Click below to try the interactive demo:<\/p><p>\n        <button\n                data-navattic-open=\"https:\/\/capture.navattic.com\/cmid6jy2a000204l2da8g8op4\"\n                data-navattic-title=\"How to create an FTP account\"\n                class=\"btn\"\n        >\n            Launch demo        <\/button>\n        \n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">To create a new FTP account, go to <b><a class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"https:\/\/hpanel.hostinger.com\/websites\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Websites<\/a>&nbsp;<\/b>&rarr; <b>Dashboard<\/b>, search for <b>FTP accounts<\/b> on the sidebar, and click on it:<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2019\/02\/d0e63774-e49b-4669-8f9d-c770fd5503a4.jpg\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">At the bottom of the page, you will be presented with <b>Create a New FTP Account<\/b> section. There you will be able to specify a custom directory, username, and password for your new FTP account:<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2019\/02\/64c21147-9ab3-4a10-b2b5-9373d6132e80.jpg\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\"><b>NOTE<\/b><\/p><ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">If you wish for your FTP account to have access to the root folder of your website, leave <b>\/public_html<\/b> as the directory.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul><p class=\"no-margin\">Once created, you will be able to either delete your FTP accounts or change their passwords:<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2019\/02\/aad0c4e0-1470-4b58-ad3c-dfcb13f6dfe6.jpg\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">And that&rsquo;s it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creating more FTP accounts 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":[193],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ftp-and-sftp"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/1583246-how-to-create-additional-ftp-accounts-in-hostinger\/","default":1},{"locale":"fr-FR","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/fr\/support\/1583246-comment-creer-des-comptes-ftp-additionnels-sur-hostinger-hpanel\/","default":0},{"locale":"id-ID","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/id\/support\/1583246-cara-menambah-akun-ftp-di-hpanel-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"pt-PT","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/br\/support\/1583246-como-criar-contas-ftp-adicionais-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"uk-UA","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/ua\/support\/1583246----ftp---hostinger\/","default":0}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569","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=1569"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6854,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569\/revisions\/6854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}