: Disable ftp://hostname for my website I'm hosting a page and I'm having a problem. If I write ftp://myhostname, the browser asks for FTP username and password and I think this may be a security

@LarsenBagley505

If I write ftp://myhostname, the browser asks for FTP username and password and I think this may be a security problem because it doesn't happen with other websites like ftp://google.com.


It can happen with numerous other URLs. What you discovered is that a server has FTP software installed and setup properly so that it allows no anonymous user access.

FTP is commonly used to transfer files (especially files that make up a website) from your computer to your server and vice-versa. SFTP is a secure version of FTP.

Without FTP, the only other common way to add files to the server is to use a web based file manager.

If you want to disable access to ftp://whatever, then you need to contact whoever has access to the applications on the server's back-end and ask that person to terminate all running FTP server processes.

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