{"id":208,"date":"2025-11-10T14:18:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T14:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jolt.co.uk\/kb\/using-winscp-ftp-client-to-upload-download-files\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T14:18:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T14:18:19","slug":"using-winscp-ftp-client-to-upload-download-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jolt.co.uk\/help\/using-winscp-ftp-client-to-upload-download-files\/","title":{"rendered":"Using WinSCP FTP Client to upload\/download files"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>1. Download an FTP Client. We would recommend using WinSCP, it\u2019s one of the most popular FTP clients and it\u2019s also free!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winscp.net\/eng\/download.php\">https:\/\/winscp.net\/eng\/download.php<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once you have installed WinSCP, we can look at getting connected to the server. We are going connect using your cPanel login credentials. When you first set up an account with us, you would have received an email with the details on how you can gain access to your control panel. If you have lost those details, feel free to raise a support ticket or call in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>2. Please open WinSCP and make sure the File protocol is set to FTP then enter in the connection details:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Host name: This is usually ftp.yourdomain.co.uk<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>User name: The same as your cPanel username<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Password: The same as your cPanel password<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Port number: This should be 21<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/support.cloudabove.com\/sc_assets\/22117\/1.PNG\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After you have entered in your connection information click login.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>3.&nbsp;Now you are connected, you will see two panes, the left side is your local folder structure and the right side is the remote servers folder structure. The contents of your website will be within a folder called \u201cpublic_html\u201d, every document for your website should be inside this directory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/support.cloudabove.com\/sc_assets\/22126\/7.PNG\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>5. To upload or download files, simply drag and drop them into place. As an example I have dragged the file \u201ctest.html\u201d from my local computer (left pane) to the server (right pane). This would now mean that you could access that file by going to&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.yourdomain.co.uk\/test.html.\">www.yourdomain.co.uk\/test.html.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/support.cloudabove.com\/sc_assets\/22129\/6.PNG\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Download an FTP Client. We would recommend using WinSCP, it\u2019s one of the most popular FTP clients and it\u2019s also free! https:\/\/winscp.net\/eng\/download.php Once you have installed WinSCP, we can look at getting connected to the server. We are going connect using your cPanel login credentials. When you first set&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-access","category-advanced-techniques"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jolt.co.uk\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jolt.co.uk\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jolt.co.uk\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jolt.co.uk\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jolt.co.uk\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jolt.co.uk\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jolt.co.uk\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jolt.co.uk\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jolt.co.uk\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}