Unless the hosting provider adds in some custom plugins, there should be no difference in the actual installation of WordPress when using a cPanel 1-click option or uploading directly via FTP. Once the site is installed, there is not really any more interaction with cPanel, other than being able to easily delete the database and … Read more
You’re doing the whole thing in a wrong way. First of all you should not redirect the domain to ftp server url. You should point your domain using A record or Nameservers. Whatever option you have/works for you. And then change siteurl and home url in your database with the new domain name. More Details … Read more
Solution found. In this case, the problem was the path name. It included a folder with a keyword that the server should reject: “worm”. While for the template was not a problem, for the plugins folder it was.
You should be able to work around this by specifying your FTP credentials in wp-config.php as per the Codex. Generally this sort of problem happens when switching from a handler where the PHP is executed as the Apache user to one where PHP runs under its own user, and the PHP user doesn’t have the … Read more
You can use this plugin “File Manager” – https://wordpress.org/plugins/file-manager/, you will need to have the requirements below: PHP 5.2+ Firefox 12+ Google Chrome / Chromium 19+ Internet Explorer 9+ Opera 12+ Safari 6 Mogrify Utility (Optional) GD / Imagic (Optional)
If somebody is actively looking into your site to hunt malware, let them do the repairs first before you delete anything. Those numbers look like timestamps, so my guess is that those are results from malware-scans running at those dates. It’s a text-file, you can download them and take a look at the content. Maybe … Read more
There is a difference between WordPress files you upload on your FTP, and WordPress “content” that is stored in your database. For your content to be updated, you have to migrate your WordPress database online. Resources: This link explains how you can migrate your WordPress website entirely https://www.wpexplorer.com/migrating-wordpress-website/ For example, has stated by @WebElaine, you … Read more
Starting with version 4.9 OpenSSH (not available in centos 5.x but ChrootDirectory feature was backported) has an internal-sftp subsystem: Subsystem sftp internal-sftp And then block other uses: Match group sftponly ChrootDirectory /upload/%u X11Forwarding no AllowTcpForwarding no AllowAgentForwarding no ForceCommand internal-sftp Add your users to the sftponly group. The chroot directory must be owned by root, … Read more
Try -m for –mirror wget -m ftp://username:[email protected]
You don’t. rsync can’t do that for you, it is a protocol of its own and doesn’t work over FTP. You might, however, want to try csync. IIRC it provides rsync-like behaviour over HTTP. I can’t comment on whether it works over FTP, you’ll have to try it.