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Connect via SSH and use command-line tools

Update 08/10/2026

This guide explains how to connect via SSH to a Web Hosting or a Cloud Server.

 

Connecting via SSH…

 

… via a web browser

  1. Click here to access the management of your web hosting on the Infomaniak Manager (need help?).
  2. Click directly on the name assigned to the hosting in question:
  3. Click on FTP / SSH in the left-hand menu.
  4. Click on the SSH Console button:

 

… via the terminal or an application

To connect via SSH, use the following commands from a Terminal application (command-line interface, CLI) on your device, for example:

  • Terminal (an application already integrated into macOS and Linux)
  • PuTTY (Windows)
  • Windows 10 SSH client (help in French / in English)

Then, enter the following command:

ssh username@server
  • username is the username of the FTP account
  • server is the host server (e.g. xxxx.ftp.infomaniak.com)

 

To find out which command is available and to know the path to use, run the "whereis" command:

$ whereis mysql
mysql: /opt/mysql/bin/mysql

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