I’m gonna need a lot of help

[Admin]

@semicodin

And what’s making this worse for me are the multiple identities and passwords. I wish I understood the difference between these accounts.

Typically, there is only one password you actually need to know, which is the client area password. Every hosting account also has its own password, which is used for FTP and MySQL.

@semicodin

If you could just address these few questions I’d appreciate it. I’ve read much of the knowledgebase but couldn’t find information about the differences in IDs.

The most suitable article I can think of is this one:

InfinityFree Glossary - Terminology and their definitions

When interacting with InfinityFree services and asking for help, you may come across a wide variety of different terms and designations, used in our services, in our documentation articles, and in topics on our forum. In order to better make sense of this, and be able to effectively communicate, this article contains a list of some commonly used, and sometimes misunderstood, terminology. Panels and Tools Client Area: The main panel of InfinityFree where you can manage all the services you have…

@semicodin

And what about CHMOD? It’s been years since I interacted with webmaster responsibilities but I remember there were very specific settings to make sure no one could simply “back out” of a URL to get to my directory. How does infinityfree handle that or do I have to do that myself?

Just “backing out” of a website directory should not be possible. All common web servers have security protections built-in by default, as there is basically no situation where you would want people to be able to navigate to arbitrary directories on the server. And if you do, then you can still configure that explicitly.

CHMOD is basically disabled on our hosting. In the 8+ year I have used this platform I cannot recall a single case where it has helped someone, and numerous cases where people messed up the permissions and corrupted their account.