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Author storesecured Posted on March 28, 2013September 17, 2025Categories Important ChangesPer our previous blog post regarding the important FTP changes, if your FTP password does not meet the password strength requirements your FTP access been disabled. If your FTP account was disabled it can be re-enabled by updating your FTP password from My Account–>Change FTP Password and then enabling FTP from General–>FTP. If you do NOT use FTP we recommend keeping it disabled.
Author storesecured Posted on March 26, 2013September 17, 2025Categories Features1) Blog Meta Fields Functionality is now available to define meta tags for blog entries, ie meta title, meta keywords and meta description. If the meta title is left blank the blog title will be used instead. If the meta keywords are left blank the keywords for the main blog page will be used instead. If the meta description is left blank the first 150 characters of the blog post will be used. To define the meta tags for a … Continue reading “New Blog Features Available – Blog meta content, comments, moderation and subscription”
Author storesecured Posted on March 20, 2013September 17, 2025Categories Features, NoticesPlease note the protected department feature upgrade/change shown below. Items which are in protected departments will no longer be displayed on the home/search pages if the shopper who is logged in does not have access to the associated protected department. If the shopper is not logged in then all items will be shown as before. When the shopper clicks on the item they would be asked to log in if it is in a protected department. This change affects only … Continue reading “Protected Department Feature Upgrade”
Author storesecured Posted on March 19, 2013September 17, 2025Categories Important ChangesThe SFTP/SSH method of securely connecting to FTP described in our previous blog post is now available for use. If you prefer to use this method of connction instead of FTPS you may connect using port 22. The SFTP/SSH method of uploading files is generally slower then FTPS and should be used only if you cannot use FTPS on port 990. Please remember that we will be turning off support for regular FTP on port 21 effective this coming Monday March 25th.
Author storesecured Posted on March 11, 2013September 17, 2025Categories Important Changes 1 Comment on FTP SSH OptionThe following blog post applies to users who are receiving a Connection Timeout and/or Connection Refused message when trying to connect to FTP using implicit TLS security via port 990. The error messages above indicate that your connection is being blocked by a router or computer firewall. Please note that in order to connect you should ensure that your computer firewall is setup with an exception for your ftp software and/or that you have enabled access to ports 990 and … Continue reading “FTP SSH Option”
Author storesecured Posted on March 7, 2013September 17, 2025Categories Important ChangesPer our previous blog post, the following FTP change is now implemented… FTP Username Change All FTP logins are now modified to use store ids instead of the old user name. The remaining FTP changes announced at the previous blog post will be required starting March 25th. We recommend upgrading your FTP setup as soon as possible along with the login change and not waiting until March 25th. The March 25th changes will include: FTP Password Strength If your FTP Password does not … Continue reading “FTP Username change implemented”
Author storesecured Posted on March 6, 2013September 17, 2025Categories Important Changes 2 Comments on Important FTP Server ChangesPlease note the following important changes coming for the StoreSecured FTP Server. FTP Username change – effective March 8th FTP usernames for all stores will be changed to use the store id for the username. FTP Passwords will remain the unchanged (please see the note below about password strength). Only secure connections allowed – effective March 25th All users will be required to connect to the FTP server using a FTP client that supports FTPS or SFTP connections, ie port … Continue reading “Important FTP Server Changes”