For reference: It looks as though one is stuck with having the files in the public_html folder. I sorted the access thing by using the 'Directory Protection' feature in the 'Site Management' menu to restrict the permissions on the folder to just the appropriate user. Pat  

Hello, I have a Bronze Linux hosting package. I want to set up a folder of files that selected folk can log into and fetch, but the great unwashed cannot. Using cPanel, I can creat a new FTP account (penguinfiles, say) and it creates a corresponding subfolder in public_html with all the login and password protection. BUT I find it can also be ...

I'm trying to install the excellent SugarCRM (a LAMP-based CRM package natch). In the install docs it guides you thru making sure certain directories and files are writable by the web process but in the latest beta there seem to be a few omissions which I'm currently working on manually.  It would be a lot easier and safer if I could chown ...