Since this is the root folder of your account every other file and folder associated with the account will be contained in it.
In addition, at the top right corner of the section you will find tools for File Searching and of course, a “Settings ” button which will bring up settings interface for different configurations of the “File Manager ” feature. Actions View - This section offers all the tools you will need to manage the files and folders of your web hosting account.When you access the “ File Manager ” feature you will be presented with a page which can be logically separated on 3 sections: To better understand how the “ File Manager ” feature works, first, you have to be aware of all the functionalities it offers. When clicked the feature will redirect you to a brand new page where further file management actions can be taken. We will explain all those in the next tutorials of our cPanel Tutorial Series, however for achieving the goal of this tutorial, you will have to click on the “ File Manager ” feature: Once logged into the cPanel service, you will see several sections with different icons. For that purpose, we have created another tutorial on the matter - " How to access cPanel", so please check it out in case you are feeling lost.
In order to use any of the cPanel features, you will first have to log in to the cPanel service. In the following lines of this tutorial, we will review in detail what is the cPanel File Manager feature and how to use it in order to better organize the files of your Web Hosting Account.Īccessing the cPanel File Manager Feature cPanel is no different than a standard OS in terms of providing a convenient way of organizing the files of the user’s Web Hosting Account. Every Operating System offers different tools to achieve basic operations on its file system and the most common approaches of managing files are either via the command line of the OS or via some sort of graphic interface. One of the most basic computer operations ever is to manage the files stored on a typical computer device.