Powered By Network Solutions: File Management - How to Edit Files Using File Manager

The File Manager is a powerful tool. You can edit your website files in the File Manager by going through your Account Manager.

• Editing Files via the File Manager
• Editing Files via FTP
• List of Editable File Types inside of the File Manager

Editing Files via the File Manager

1. Log in to your https://www.networksolutions.com/my-account/login.
2. Click the Hosting tab on the left-hand menu.
   
3. Click the Manage button of your hosting package.
   
4. Click the File Manager section on the left-hand side menu.

   

5. On the right pane, click the caret icon of your website's folder (For the primary domain, your website files are found in the public_html folder) to view the files inside. 

   

6. Put a check mark on the file you need to edit, and click the vertical ellipsis on the far right.
7. Select the Edit button.

   

8. You can now edit, delete, or download your selected file.

   

9. Once done, click the Save button.

Editing Files via FTP

You can also edit your website files via an FTP client. To do so, follow the steps below. For this article, we will use FileZilla as an example.

1. Launch your FTP client, FileZilla, and establish a connection. For instructions, please visit the How to Connect Using an FTP Client article.
2. Within FileZilla's Remote site section, go to the correct directory and locate the file on your server that you want to edit.
3. Right-click on the file and select View/Edit from the list of options. 
4. A prompt will appear. Choose your available text editor. If no specific editor is installed on your computer, you may use the default application/program associated with that file type.
   • For Windows, the default program is Notepad.
   • For Mac, the default program you can use is TextEdit.
5. Update the file as necessary and Save the changes. FileZilla will notify you of the change and ask if you want to upload the file back to the server.
6. Select Finish and then click Yes.

List of Editable File Types inside of the File Manager

Allowed file name characters:

• Upper-case letters (for example, FILENAME.html)
• Lower-case letters (for example, filename.html)
• Numbers (for example, filename1.html)
• Hyphens (for example, file-name.html)
• Underscores (for example, file_name.html)
• Spaces (for example, file name.html)
• 'At' (@) Symbol (for example,[email protected])