haggis

I have a reseller account.
I want to make some files on one of my domains available to friends to download, so I tried setting up an ftp account under cPanel with public_ftp as the available folder on the server.
I want people to be able to download the files via their browser, so to test it I fired up IE7 and entered into the URL bar
ftp://ftp.mydomain.com/
I expected a login box to appear so I could enter user/password into, but instead I got "IE cannot display the webpage".
In IE7 if I try
ftp://username:passwordmydomain.com/
it does come up with the login box but only the main username/password will work and obviously I don't want to give out my cPanel user-id and password.

If I try it in Firefox2 it sits saying "Loading" forever.

Anybody able to suggest where I've gone wrong?
Thanks in advance

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Roxy

why not just make a page and link the downloads to them, so that in the end no one needs to have any type of password or browser issues?

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haggis

Yeah, could do that
Just thought this ought to work and wondering why it doesn't.....

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Roxy

Hmm, I'm not quite sure why it doesn't work myself? It also doesn't work in FireFox, but I was just told that FF doesn't support it that well, so maybe IE is the same. Now the other URL works fine, like you used. Sorry I couldn't be more help in regards to this.

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cowboy

public_ftp is above the public_html folder and is not accessible for anything except incoming anonymous ftp only.

You need to use the cPanel FTP manager/FTP Accounts and password protect a directory below the public_html folder with it's own username and password. You can then access it with the browser, ( ftp://folderusername:folderpasswordyourdomain.tld ), or, with a ftp client using folderusernameyourdomain.tld as the username and folderpassword as the password. The client will be jailed in that folder. Keep in mind this directory and any sub-directories below it will be accessible to that user for any manipulation.

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haggis

OK, thanks to you both for your advice.
I'll do as cowboy suggests and report back on how it went

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haggis

In fact I was too lazy to do as cowboy suggested, I'm sure he's right
just followed Roxy's advice and created a page with links
thanks again

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