

Scroll to the bottom of the Edit page, click the Add item button, and paste the Public Key text that you copied in Step 3 into the box. Paste Public Key in Google Cloud From the hamburger menu in the upper left-hand corner of your Google Cloud Platform dashboard, navigate to Compute Engine > Metadata > SSH Keys. Copy and save the keys After your SSH Key files have been generated, copy the public key text from the top box, and download the private key file by clicking the Save private key button.Ĥ. After clicking the Generate button, move your cursor under the progress bar to generate your SSH key files.ģ.

Generate SSH Keys After you’ve downloaded PuTTY Key Generator, open the application and click the “Generate” button to create a new pair of SSH Keys. You will use this application to generate a private/public key pair and establish a secure connection between your Google Cloud Platform instance and FileZilla.įileZilla is the FTP Client that we will use to securely manage our Google Cloud website’s files straight from our desktop.Ģ. Putty is an SSH client and key generator. The first step in this tutorial is to download PuTTY and FileZilla. In the right panel, click on the Add keyfile. In the upper toolbar, click on Edit and then Settings.Ī popup menu will appear.Create the FileZilla profileĪfter your keys have been generated, you will need to create your SFTP profile in your FileZilla application which requires to steps: Attaching your private keyfile to FileZilla and then creating your connection profile. If you already have created keys for SSH access, the same keys will be used for SFTP. If needed, create your public and private keys as per the instructions in the SSH access for Resellers and Shared Servers article. How to Generate the access keys in cPanel You will need to be able to access cPanel as the required access keys are generated in that location. The method is described below using FileZilla as the FTP client.

We have recently added the ability to use Secure FTP, or SFTP with our Web Hosting Hub accounts.
