- Login to the DirectAdmin Control Panel (located at http://da1.hardlines.com or http://www.yourdomain.com/admin).
- In the Username field, type your administrator username.
- In the Password field, type your administrator password, and click Login.
- Once logged in, your screen will look like this:
- Under the Main Menu field, select File Manager.
- Open your public_html directory.
- From this screen you have many options.
- To copy/move files with the clipboard, Select the source files and add them to the clipboard with Add to Clipboard, go to the directory where you wish to copy/move the files, then click Copy Clipboard Files here or Move Clipboard Files here.
- To rename a file, click Rename next to the file name.
- To edit a file, click Edit next to the file name.
- To upload a file, click the Upload files to current directory button at the bottom. Choose Files you want to upload, then select the Upload button.
- To change permissions on file(s), first Select the files, type in the permissions bit-mask in the set Permission field, then click set Permission.
Note: Permissions can be difficult to understand at first. The following is a quick overview of commonly used permission bit-masks.
Files:
600 Makes a file inaccessible
644 Readable by everyone (e.g. HTML documents)
666 File can be read and modified (e.g. for HTML files modified by scripts)
755 File can be read and executed by everyone (e.g. for scripts)
777 Writable and executable by everyone (not recommended)
Directories:
711 Files in directory can be read by everyone, but not directory contents
755 Files and contents of directory can be seen by everyone
777 Allows full read/write/delete access to a directory (not recommended)
The File Manager can be used to edit all the files on your account. It can also be used to copy/move files, change permissions, rename, delete, and create or upload new files.
