How To Upload Files In Cpanel

Learn How to Upload a File With cPanel File Manager

The cPanel File Managing director makes it like shooting fish in a barrel to upload a file to your account. Sometimes this is necessary, for example, when trying to verify ownership of the site for Google Search Console. If y'all are unfamiliar with File Manager in cPanel, delight see our article on Using the cPanel File Manager.

In this example, we're going to upload a test.html file to the public_html folder in File Manager. So when yous visit the file through a web browser, you'd become to example.com/test.html. This is important to know and then you tin ensure you are testing the right file.

If you wanted to place the file in a subfolder called test, then to visit the file in a browser y'all'd go to:
example.com/test/examination.html

Upload a File In cPanel

Login to cPanel.
On the home screen under the Files section choose File Manager.
Click theSettings icon in your File Managing director window.
Next, choose the folder location you'd like to start in. For this example, we're going to utilise the Document Root for our website.
Select Upload from the icons at the peak.
Navigate to the file you lot want to upload on your local estimator by clicking the "Select File" button.
Select the file and click Open. Once the file is finished uploading you tin click on the link in the center of the screen to return to the folder you uploaded the file to.
Now, in a web browser, we can visit the file and verify it uploaded to the location correctly.

Congratulations, now yous know how to upload a file with cPanel File Managing director. Check out our cPanel Instruction Channel for more tutorials to help you build a successful website.

John-Paul Briones Content Writer 2

John-Paul is an Electronics Engineer that spent most of his career in IT. He has been a Technical Writer for InMotion since 2013.