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| ===== Q: How to upgrade/add plugins and themes without using main cPanel username and password?===== | ===== Q: How to upgrade/add plugins and themes without using main cPanel username and password?===== | ||
| - | Every time you update/add plugins and themes Oxwall asks you to enter FTP attributes: host name, control panel username and password. In case you don't want to give out this information you can set separate FTP accounts with access to only needed data on you server. | + | Every time you update/add plugins and themes Oxwall asks you to enter FTP attributes: host name, control panel username and password. In case you don't want to give out this information you can set separate FTP accounts with access to only needed data on your server. |
| Requirements: access to your control panel, access to admin panel. | Requirements: access to your control panel, access to admin panel. | ||
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| 2. Create new FTP account. | 2. Create new FTP account. | ||
| - | Make sure the **directory** option in the ftp form shows "public_html" (the default value will show as "public_html/{$login_name}". Remove the name ( highlighted in red on screen shot) so that it is just "public_html". | + | Make sure the **directory** option in the ftp form shows "public_html". |
| + | The default value will show as "public_html/{$login_name}". Remove the name ( highlighted in red on screen shot) so that it is just "public_html". | ||
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| Make sure to change** directory** option in ftp form. | Make sure to change** directory** option in ftp form. | ||
| - | Default value will show "/public_html/{$login_name}"). Change it to: "/public_html/**your_sub_or_addon_dir_name ** . For example: my Oxwall site is installed under www.mymaindomainname.com/oxwall153 therefore When creating new FTP account I will use "/public_html/oxwall153" instead of default value. | + | The default value will show "/public_html/{$login_name}"). Change it to: "/public_html/**your_sub_or_addon_dir_name ** . |
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| + | For example: my Oxwall site is installed under www.mymaindomainname.com/oxwall153, therefore when creating new FTP account I will use "/public_html/oxwall153" instead of default value. | ||
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| - | |**Note**: This documentation was provided by our contributor [[http://www.oxwall.org/user/durangod| Dave ]].| | + | |**Note**: This documentation was provided by our contributor [[http://www.oxwall.org/user/durangod| Dave ]]. Original instructions can be found [[http://www.oxwall.org/forum/topic/12297|here]] | |
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