Alternative way of authentication (cPanel)

[Rahulkm]

How to publish wpb without using default ftp login of cpanel

Hello,

Usually WPB uses default FTP logins (which is same as cpanel logins) to transfer the files during publish. I have disabled default ftp access due to security reasons in our cPanel server (Normal user ftp access enabled). Because of this, I'm getting following error message while publishing sites.

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The site cannot be published to the specified location. Cannot publish to the specified host via ftp. Authorization failed.
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I'm using latest version of WPB and cPanel.

Is there any alternative mechanism to publish the website using wpb? Or how can we resolve the problem without enabling default FTP?

 

[Egor Chernodarov]

Hi there,

Unfortunately current version of WPB plugin supports only FTP publishing.

Could you explain please what you mean with "default ftp access" and "normal user ftp access"?

I have disabled default ftp access due to security reasons in our cPanel server (Normal user ftp access enabled)

 

[Rahulkm]

Hello,

Thank you for the response. This is what I meant:

Default FTP access- We can login FTP with cPanel login details (by default). I have disabled this option due to security reasons.
Normal FTP access- Additional FTP accounts can be created using cPanel and we can access FTP with that.

Eg:
domain: example.com
cpanel (ftp) username: example
password: pass
(By default, WPB uses these logins for publishing sites. But I have disabled this access, so getting error message as mentioned in my first post)
We can create ftp accounts like test@example.com on cpanel. These FTP accounts are allowed to login.

Hope its clear and you got my problem. Is there any solution for this?

 

[Rahulkm]

Hello,

Thank you for the response. This is what I meant:

Default FTP access- We can login FTP with cPanel login details (by default). I have disabled this option due to security reasons.
Normal FTP access- Additional FTP accounts can be created using cPanel and we can access FTP with that.

Eg:
domain: example.com
cpanel (ftp) username: example
password: pass
(By default, WPB uses these logins for publishing sites. But I have disabled this access, so getting error message as mentioned in my first post)
We can create ftp accounts like test@example.com on cpanel. These FTP accounts are allowed to login.

Hope its clear and you got my problem. Is there any solution for this?

 

[Egor Chernodarov]

It's clear now.
WPB team have plans to change integration scheme and create additional FTP-user for WPB. Most likely this solves your issue.
New plugin version with changes in integration scheme are planned for May 2014 (it's a rough estimate).

Sorry, but right now I have no idea how to workaround this issue with disabled "Default FTP access".