Authentication by FTP

Some of SPIP’s functionalities have a direct influence on the structure and the content itself of the database (in particular, updates, backups and restores of the database...). For these very sensitive features, an FTP authentication procedure has been put in place as a way to restrict their usage to the few users who have been granted FTP access to the site server (more generally, if a site admits several SPIP administrators, FTP access is restricted to the main webmaster).

To be able to use these features, you have to simultaneously:

• connect to the web with your usual browser; when you launch the action, SPIP specifies a name of the format "admin_xxxxx", that you must write down (copy to the clipboard works too);
• then also connect to your site’s server by FTP, and create a file (or an empty directory) and name it "admin_xxxxx" in the /ecrire/data folder (paste from the clipboard works here as well);
• once you have created this file or directory, go back to your web browser and reload the page, which concludes the FTP authentication and triggers the desired action.