Create Virtual Folder
How to get here
- From the top menu, select . The Folders page opens.
- Select . The Create Virtual Folder page opens.
This page allows you to add a virtual folder to the current host.
- . Enter a name for the virtual folder. This name will identify the folder to users who log in to the server.
- Select the physical location on the folder. You may either enter the path manually or select it by clicking Browse.
You can use a network share anywhere that you specify a physical folder on the server. To do this, you must enter the UNC path to the shared folder. You must also specify an Impersonation account that allows the WS_FTP Server to access the UNC path. The Impersonation Settings are configured on the same page (Host Details page) as the Top folder.
If using Microsoft IIS, you must also give permissions to the shared folder to the Windows user account under which your web server's WSFTPSVR
folder is running. If that user cannot access the shared folder through the Windows explorer, you cannot access the folder via the WS_FTP Server Manager.
- . Select this option to make this folder viewable via FTP only if the user has logged in using 40-bit SSL or higher.
- . Select this option to make this folder viewable via FTP only if the user has logged in using 128-bit SSL or higher.
- . Select where you want this virtual folder to display.
- . Select this option to exclude this virtual folder from folder listings. Users who know virtual folder name can still access it by providing the folder name manually.
- . Select this option to display this virtual folder as a subfolder of the server root folder.
- . Select this option to display this virtual folder as a subfolder of each user's home folder.
- : If you change the virtual display location of a virtual folder for which folder action rules are configured, you must update the folder action rules to use the new file path. If you do not do this, the folder action rules will not work.