{"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":"2026-10-29T15:08:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T15:08:46","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\">Create additional FTP accounts in Hostinger to give more than one person access to your website&rsquo;s files, each with their own username and password. You can also restrict an additional FTP account to specific folders. One FTP account is created by default when you add a website to your hosting plan.<\/p><p><b>NOTE<\/b><\/p><ul>\n<li>FTP is not available for websites created with <b><a data-click-id=\"hgr-post-content-link-hostinger-ai-builder\" class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"\/ai-builder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hostinger AI Builder<\/a><\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul><h2 id=\"h-create-a-new-ftp-account\">Create a new FTP account<\/h2><p class=\"no-margin\">To create a new FTP account, go to <b><a data-click-id=\"hgr-post-content-link-websites\" class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"https:\/\/hpanel.hostinger.com\/websites\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Websites<\/a>&nbsp;<\/b>&rarr; <b>Manage site<\/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\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/imagedelivery.net\/LqiWLm-3MGbYHtFuUbcBtA\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2019\/02\/d0e63774-e49b-4669-8f9d-c770fd5503a4.jpg\/public\" alt=\"Hostinger dashboard sidebar with FTP Accounts highlighted under Files\" width=\"298\" height=\"333\" data-media-id=\"5475\"><\/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\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20841\" src=\"https:\/\/imagedelivery.net\/LqiWLm-3MGbYHtFuUbcBtA\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/10\/2026-10-16_13-29.png\/public\" alt=\"\" width=\"1167\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imagedelivery.net\/LqiWLm-3MGbYHtFuUbcBtA\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/10\/2026-10-16_13-29.png\/w=1167,fit=scale-down 1167w, https:\/\/imagedelivery.net\/LqiWLm-3MGbYHtFuUbcBtA\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/10\/2026-10-16_13-29.png\/w=300,fit=scale-down 300w, https:\/\/imagedelivery.net\/LqiWLm-3MGbYHtFuUbcBtA\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/10\/2026-10-16_13-29.png\/w=1024,fit=scale-down 1024w, https:\/\/imagedelivery.net\/LqiWLm-3MGbYHtFuUbcBtA\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/10\/2026-10-16_13-29.png\/w=768,fit=scale-down 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1167px) 100vw, 1167px\" \/><\/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\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20842\" src=\"https:\/\/imagedelivery.net\/LqiWLm-3MGbYHtFuUbcBtA\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/10\/2026-10-16_13-29_1.png\/public\" alt=\"\" width=\"1156\" height=\"159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imagedelivery.net\/LqiWLm-3MGbYHtFuUbcBtA\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/10\/2026-10-16_13-29_1.png\/w=1156,fit=scale-down 1156w, https:\/\/imagedelivery.net\/LqiWLm-3MGbYHtFuUbcBtA\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/10\/2026-10-16_13-29_1.png\/w=300,fit=scale-down 300w, https:\/\/imagedelivery.net\/LqiWLm-3MGbYHtFuUbcBtA\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/10\/2026-10-16_13-29_1.png\/w=1024,fit=scale-down 1024w, https:\/\/imagedelivery.net\/LqiWLm-3MGbYHtFuUbcBtA\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/10\/2026-10-16_13-29_1.png\/w=768,fit=scale-down 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1156px) 100vw, 1156px\" \/><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">Your new FTP account is ready. See <a data-click-id=\"hgr-post-content-link-how-to-connect-to-your-hosting-using-ftp-in-hostinger\" href=\"\/support\/4480505-how-to-connect-to-your-hosting-using-ftp-in-hostinger\/\">How to connect to your hosting using FTP in Hostinger<\/a> to start transferring files.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Create additional FTP accounts in Hostinger to give more users access to your website files, with optional access limits for specific folders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_content_updated_date":"","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-BR","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-\u044f\u043a-\u0441\u0442\u0432\u043e\u0440\u0438\u0442\u0438-\u0434\u043e\u0434\u0430\u0442\u043a\u043e\u0432\u0456-ftp-\u0430\u043a\u0430\u0443\u043d\u0442\u0438-\u043d\u0430-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":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23440,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569\/revisions\/23440"}],"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}]}}