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Connect via SSH and use command line

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

 

Connect via SSH…

 

… via a Web Browser

  1. Click here to access the management of your hosting on the Infomaniak Manager (need help?).
  2. Click directly on the name assigned to the hosting concerned:
  3. Click on FTP / SSH in the left sidebar 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 type application (command-line interface, CLI / Command Line Interface) on your device, for example:

  • Terminal (application already integrated with macOS and Linux)
  • PuTTY (Windows)
  • Windows 10 SSH Client (help in French / in English)

Then enter the following command:

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

 

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

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

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