{"id":18344,"date":"2026-09-29T19:52:34","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T16:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/knowledgebase\/cpanel-home-directory-folders\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T19:52:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T16:52:34","password":"","slug":"cpanel-home-directory-folders","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/knowledgebase\/cpanel-home-directory-folders\/","title":{"rendered":"cPanel Folders Explained: public_html, mail, public_ftp and More"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"hy-tldr\" style=\"background:#f6f7fb;border-left:4px solid #d83954;border-radius:10px;padding:14px 18px;margin:0 0 20px;line-height:1.8\"><strong>In short:<\/strong> The key folders in your hosting account are public_html for your website files (only what is inside it is visible to visitors), mail for your email data, and public_ftp for public FTP files. Do not delete or change the other folders, because your website or email depends on them.<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/zasogooh\/2019\/07\/moving_sub_to_root2.png\" alt=\"Folders in the cPanel home directory\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When you open File Manager in cPanel, your home directory contains several folders. Here is what the important ones do:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>public_html:<\/strong> where you upload all your website files and pages. Only files inside this folder are shown on your website.<\/li>\n<li><strong>www:<\/strong> another name (a shortcut) for public_html. Both point to the same folder.<\/li>\n<li><strong>mail:<\/strong> where everything related to your email accounts is stored.<\/li>\n<li><strong>public_ftp:<\/strong> a folder for publishing files through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/knowledgebase\/upload-files-via-ftp\/\">FTP<\/a>. When anonymous FTP is enabled, anyone can download files from it without a username or password.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The other folders perform functions your website and email depend on. Do not delete or rename them: changing them can cause problems and may stop your website from working.<\/p>\n<p>To upload files to public_html, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/knowledgebase\/upload-files-cpanel-file-manager\/\">how to upload files with cPanel File Manager<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hy-svc-link\" style=\"background:#fff5f7;border-left:4px solid #d83954;border-radius:10px;padding:14px 18px;margin:20px 0;line-height:1.8\"><strong>Related service:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/shared-hosting-2\/\">Fast, secure web hosting from Hyyat Host<\/a> with cPanel and 24\/7 support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In short: The key folders in your hosting account are public_html for your website files (only what is inside it is visible to visitors), mail for your email data, and public_ftp for public FTP files. Do not delete or change the other folders, because your website or email depends on them. When you open File [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_templately_pack_id":"","_templately_imported_at":"","_templately_source":"","_templately_import_session_id":"","footnotes":""},"doc_category":[2749],"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-18344","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-website-control-panel-cpanel"],"year_month":"2026-10","word_count":200,"total_views":"4","reactions":{"happy":"0","normal":"0","sad":"0"},"author_info":{"name":"ahmed fathy","author_nicename":"ahmed-fathy","author_url":"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/author\/ahmed-fathy\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"Website control panel ( cpanel )","term_url":"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/kb\/website-control-panel-cpanel\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"knowledge_base_info":[],"knowledge_base_slug":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/18344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/18344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=18344"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=18344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}