Section 5: The list of remote directories/files in the selected directory on your hosting.Section 4: The list of directories/files in the directory selected locally on your computer.Section 3: The directory tree of remote files when you are connected to your hosting.Section 2: The directory tree of local files on your computer.For more information, please refer to the official FileZilla documentation. Section 1: Displays details on the operation history, connection to the FTP space, file transfers, errors, etc.The top connection bar allows you to log in to your hosting plan quickly, by entering its host name, user name, associated password and port number.It is available free of charge from the page.

You need to have installed the FileZilla client on your computer.You can find more information in the Go further section of this guide. Nevertheless, we recommend contacting a specialist provider if you encounter any difficulties. This guide is designed to help you with common tasks. It is therefore your responsibility to ensure that they function properly. Click OK when the popup occurs showing you a warning about the unknown host key.įor better security, please use SSH keys instead of passwords.OVHcloud provides services that you are responsible for with regard to their configuration and management. This is 22 by default if you didn't change it.Ħ. Enter the password of the user you have created in Password field.Ĥ. Enter the username of the user you have created in Username field.ģ. To connect to your VPS using SFTP with Filezilla, please follow these steps:Ģ. The easiest way of connecting to your VPS using SFTP is by using Filezilla.įilezilla comes with SFTP support by default. You can just enter the password and press Enter to other questions to skip them.

This command will ask you to enter a password for it and some information. If you'd like to create a user to connect to your VPS using SFTP, then you could simply use the below command: If you have created a user on your VPS using adduser or useradd commands, and you can connect to your SSH terminal, by using them, you can use those credentials to login to your VPS using SFTP. The advantage of it versus FTP is it uses secure connections, too. SFTP comes already installed on your VPS along with your openssh-server package. SFTP stands for Secure File Transfer Protocol. Instead of old and insecure FTP, you should use SFTP to connect to your VPS to upload your files.

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