The mail folder contains all the information for your emails.The public_html folder has all of your primary and addon domains' website files.Imagine that inside your drawer are several folders which store important information for your account. You can only access your own drawer and not the others. The username folder is like having your own drawer, and other people use the other drawers. Imagine that the home folder is a filing cabinet. The home/username/public_html/ folder (web root) - Where all website files are stored.The home/username/ path (home directory) - Can be accessed via FTP or File Manager.

The home folder - On the root of the server (Shared customers cannot access this level).The server path for Linux accounts with cPanel consists of the following:

Linux with cPanel /home/ cpanel-username/public_html/īe sure to replace 'cpanel-username' with your actual cPanel user name. Server path, absolute path and webroot are all different names for the same thing a path which defines where your files are located on the server.

Filezilla server path must be absolute