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Backing Up Your Files Properly A real backup.WHAT A BACKUP MUST INCLUDEFiles Databases Email, if it mattersFiles alone are not a... Cleaning Up Your Hosting Account Recovering space and reducing clutter.WHAT TO REMOVEBackup archives you have downloaded Old site... Common FTP Problems When the connection fails.CANNOT CONNECT AT ALLCheck the address, username and password Check the... Compressing and Extracting Archives Working with zip files.WHY COMPRESSTransferring one large file is far faster than thousands of... Downloading Your Files Getting a copy.WHYA backup Migrating away Working locally Archiving a site you are retiringTHE... Editing Files Safely Making changes without breaking things.THE RULECopy before you edit. Always.Name the copy... File Management: Everything That Matters, Briefly The whole category in one page.THE MOST IMPORTANT THING TO UNDERSTANDAnything in public_html is... File Ownership and Why It Matters Who a file belongs to.WHAT OWNERSHIP ISEvery file belongs to a user and a group.WHY IT... Finding Large Files and Disk Usage What is using your space.WHERE TO LOOKcPanel Disk Usage shows space by directory.Start at the top... Hidden Files and Why They Matter Files you cannot see by default.WHAT THEY AREFiles whose names begin with a full stop.The most... How Your Hosting File Structure Works Where everything lives.YOUR HOME DIRECTORYThe top level of your account. Everything belongs to... Managing Files Across Multiple Sites When you host several.KEEPING THEM SEPARATEEach site in its own directory Each with its own... Preventing Malicious File Uploads Where attacks get in.THE RISKA form allowing file uploads, exploited to upload an executable... Protecting Configuration Files Files containing credentials.WHAT THEY AREwp-config.php for WordPress Similar files for other... Protecting Directories With a Password Restricting access.WHAT IT DOESRequires a username and password before anything in a directory... Setting Up an FTP Client Connecting for the first time.WHAT TO ENTERHost: your domain or the server addressUsername: your... Spotting Files That Should Not Be There Recognising compromise.WHAT TO LOOK FORPHP files in directories that should contain only images... Uploading Files Correctly Getting files onto the server.WHERE TO PUT THEMWebsite files: public_html, or the directory for... Using cPanel File Manager The browser-based option.WHEN IT IS BETTER THAN FTPA single edit Checking what is there... What .htaccess Does The configuration file that controls a great deal.WHAT IT CONTROLSURL rewriting, including... What FTP Is and When to Use It File transfer basics.WHAT IT DOESTransfers files between your computer and the server.WHEN TO USE... What Not to Store on Your Hosting Account Files that should not be there.NEVER IN PUBLIC_HTMLBackup archives Database exports Spreadsheets... What Public_html Actually Means Web-accessible storage.THE RULEAnything inside public_html can be downloaded by anyone who knows...

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