The public_html folder will appear in your Web Disk space.

Your Web Disk space icon will then appear on the Desktop like any other disk or network drive.

In the 'WebDAV Authentication' window, enter your cPanel username and password (You can find your cPanel username in the left hand bar of your cPanel).

In the Server Address field, type: ( or ).

Under the Go menu, select Connect to Server.

Select the Finder on your Mac and then select Go from the top menu.

If you are running Windows 7, you'll need to use the instruction on our Setup an FTP Disk in Windows Vista and 7 article or use a third party WebDAV software like NetDrive, BitKinex or WebDrive. This is a reminder that cPanel cannot handle Web Disk on Windows 7. Additionally, you can find the patch here from Microsoft's website. Instructions on downloading and installing the patch can be found here.

If you are running Windows Vista on your desktop, you may need to download a patch from Microsoft's website in order to use Web Disk.įirst follow the instruction, Access Web Disk, and select Vista from the list of operating systems. Create, copy or delete files are working. The WebDAV share works without any problem so far. I also used the 'Add a network location' in Windows 7 to add the WebDAV share. Once the web disk is set up, you will be able to drag and drop files from your local drive to your website. I have an Apache server in my network with a WebDAV share using Digest Authentication.

A file to create the Web Disk will download to your computer and instructions will appear in cPanel to walk you through setting up the web disk on the selected OS.

Choose your operating system (the one you use on your personal computer) and click Go.

Scroll down and click the Access Web Disk button.

Notice, the same goal can be accomplished using FTP via Windows Explorer. Web disk (also known as WebDAV) is a drag-and-drop interface which allows you to access your website's files as if it were a local drive on your computer. Just Host Web Hosting Help Accessing Web Disk and WebDav Summary

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