Cool Cpanel File Manager Tips

The CPanel hosting control panel offers the ability to upload files to and from your hosting server. This can be used instead of an FTP client.

You might or might not know about FTP, which stands for File Transfer Protocol. This is a special program that you need to install on your PC to copy files to your hosting server.

Sometimes you use software programs that are installed on your server already to build your website, such as Joomla, Wordpress or other sitebuilding software. Sometimes these tools allow you to upload files without using an FTP client, but at some point you might run into a situation where you need to upload a number of files to your hosting server without using one of these tools.

It is at this point that you discover that you need something called an FTP client. An FTP client is therefore a piece of software that you install on your PC that will allow you to connect to your hosting server and to copy files. But you might not need to install an FTP client, your CPanel control panel of your hosting server already has the functionality built in to copy files to and from your hosting server.

You will have to log into your CPanel control panel with your username and password. Click on the link for 'File Manager' to open the built-in file manager utility.

You might be asked if you want to show hidden files (dot files) and whether you want to always visit the public_html folder first if you open the utility. Answer yes to these questions.

You will now see a familiar type of interface that will allow you to view your folders on the left and the files that each contains on the right hand side. You can browse the folders by double-clicking on them as well as move up and down levels of folders.

A neat trick to do is to be able to upload a number of files at the same time. At first glance it looks as if you can only upload one file at a time, but you can upload a number of files by using zipped files.

First zip all the files on your PC into one ZIP archive. You can then Upload this zip archive into the right location on your server. Once the file has been uploaded, select 'Extract'. This will quickly extract all the files into that location. You need to remember not to zip at the FOLDER level, but to zip your individual files!

To download a number of files, select the files that you want to download and then choose the 'Compress' option. Select 'zip' as the format. This will create a single zip file containing your files that you can then download to your PC.

These file management options make it really easy to quickly download and upload files if you do not have immediate access to an FTP client such as when you are traveling, or if you want to save time by zipping and unzipping files before uploading or downloading.

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Christine Anderssen is the owner of Tailormade4you and offers web design in South Africa as well as web hosting services tailored for Joomla

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