How To Access a cPanel File Manager?

If you are a web hosting user who wants to handle your server well, cPanel File Manager access is essential. This simple tool lets you add, remove, see along with alter files on your server – it makes website work simpler. Even people without much technical experience can use File Manager easily.

In this blog we walk you through the steps to access the cPanel File Manager.

Process to Access cPanel File Manager

Open File Manager: Go to the Files section in your cPanel and click File Manager.
Default Directory: It opens at `/home/userdirectory`. You can change this in Settings.
Show Hidden Files: Enable Show Hidden Files (dotfiles) in Settings to view system files like `.htaccess`.
Website Files Location:

Primary Domain: Website files go in the `public_html` folder.
Addon Domains: Files are stored in `home/user/youraddondomain.com`.

This folder is created automatically when an addon domain is added.

File Manager Interface Sections:
1. Toolbar – Create folders, delete, upload/download files.
2. File Window – Displays files/folders of the selected directory. Shows “This directory is empty” if no files exist.
3. Navigation Toolbar – Allows moving between folders.
4. Current Location Window – Displays the directory you are in.

How to Upload File on File Manager?

Access File Manager and make or find a folder to upload files.
Click the Upload icon.
Choose “Select File” and search for the file on your computer.
Choose the file and click Open/Choose.
Or drag and drop the file from your computer into the upload window.

To Copy/Move a file

Go to the File Manager.
Select the files to copy/move (to select multiple files, hold the Ctrl+Command button).
Once selected, choose the Copy or Move icon Or right-click on the selected files and choose.
Copy or Move option from the drop-down menu.
After completion, a confirmation window will show up with the final destination.

To Delete a file

Go to the File Manager.
Go to the folder where the deleted files are located.
Click the Delete icon after selecting files Or right-click on the file and use the Delete option from the drop-down menu.
The confirmation window will show up after the process is done.
And the deleted files are moved to the system .trash folder.
To remove the files permanently, check mark Skip the trash and permanently delete the files option.

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