Using WebDav From Cpanel (Web Disk)

Once logged into your Cpanel, scroll down a ways until you get to the ‘Files’ category. There click on the icon that says ‘Web Disk’. (Cpanel equivalent to WebDav)

Once on the page, be sure to follow the instructions. If by chance the following does not work, then please keep reading on to preform a Manual Secure Method.

This is the recommended method and will encrypt your login details and your data as it passes to and from your machine to the server. However, you will need to accept a few security warnings.

First access the “My Network Places” option on your Windows machine (it’ll probably show up on your desktop somewhere).

Then click “Add Network Place”

Click “Next” and it should ask “Where do you want to create this network place?” and provide you with (most probably) a single option labeled “Choose another network location”. Select that option and click Next.

In the “Internet or network address” box enter “https://www.example.com:2078/” (where example.com is your domain name) and click Next.

You may receive a pop up security alert saying “This page requires a secure connection which includes server authentication. The certificate issuer for this site is untrusted or unknown. Do you wish to proceed?” - click Yes. Basically this means that whilst the connection is encrypted, your computer cannot automatically detect that the server you are connecting to is who it is claiming to be for the encryption (but all we care about is that our data is being encrypted).

You may then receive another pop up security alert saying “A secure connection with this site cannot be verified. Would you still like to proceed? The certificate you are viewing does not match the name of the site you are trying to view”. Again, just click Yes.

It’ll then ask you to login - just use your cPanel login details.

Add a name for the location and click Next.

Now if you go to “My Network Places” and click on the icon (and approve the security alerts and maybe login again), you’ll be able to access all your web files as if they were on your hard drive.