Connect To Your WordPress Hosting Instance via SSH/SFTP
ADVANCED GUIDE – PROCEED WITH CAUTION
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WORK IN PROGRESS – ARTICLE IN DEVELOPMENT
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We offer the ability to connect to your WordPress hosting node via SSH for interacting with the terminal, or modifying files within your installation.
Request SSH Access
To get access to SSH/SFTP services, we currently need to manually enable this on an account-by-account basis. Please contact us using the chat widget on this site to submit your request.
Connect to Terminal via SSH
- Download the SSH Key provided by FTG to connect to your instance if you have not already.
- Log into the console of your choice and run the following command:
`ssl -i your_key_name_rsa -p 22 your_username@wordpress_domain`
- Choose your fingerprint trusting preference if this is your first time connecting.
Connect to SFTP via SSH
- Download the SSH Key provided by FTG to connect to your instance if you have not already.
- Open up the FTP client of your choice. Your client must support using Keys as a form of authentication.
- Use the following details to connect:
- Host: wordpress_domain
- Username: your_username
- Password: your_password
- Port: 22