Create New FTP Site Settings Dialog

Enter the name of the profile. Give it an easily remembered name to represent a FTP site.

Enter the FTP site which is supplied by your web hosting provider.

The default value for FTP is 21 and SFTP is 22. If your web hosting provider gives you another port number, enter it here.

If the FTP site already points to the root directory of your web site, you do not need to enter the remote directory. Otherwise, enter it here. For example, your provider gives you this FTP site, let's say "www22.webhostdomain.com" and the root directory of your website is at public_html. Then all your website files should be placed within this directory "public_html". In this case, enter "www22.webhostdomain.com" into  the field "FTP site" and public_html into the field "Remote directory".

Select which protocol to use. We would suggest that SFTP should be used if your web hosting account supports this. It is more secure as your user name and password will be sent through SSH which are encrypted. If FTP protocol is used, your user name and password will be sent in plain text.

This option is used only when SFTP protocol is selected. It is selected by default. When this profile is saved, the program will try to connect to the internet and get the public key from the SFTP site. If the public key can be found, it will be saved so that next time it can be used to validate that the same server is connected again.

This option is only applicable to protocol FTP. The default setting is Passive. This has to be so if your connection is behind firewall.

Enter the login name of your FTP site. You can leave it blank and enter it when you publish your website.

Enter the login password of your FTP site. You can leave it blank and enter it when you publish your website.

Click OK to save the profile.

Click Cancel to discard the profile and close this dialog.