Knowledge Base

Overview 

By the end of this article you will have collected the credentials CodeGuard needs and completed the one required step in the Bluehost control panel so CodeGuard can back up your website. You will gather your SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) credentials (Section A) and then grant CodeGuard's IP addresses access to your database through Remote MySQL (Section B). Once the IP addresses are whitelisted, CodeGuard locates and adds your database automatically. Start by logging into your Bluehost account and clicking "cpanel" in the upper left. 

Figure 1: Logging into your Bluehost account and opening cPanel from the upper-left menu. 

A. SFTP credentials: information to collect 

To add your site, we will need SFTP access. That means: (1) SFTP Hostname, (2) Username, and (3) Password. The SFTP Hostname is your Dedicated IP address and Username is your "Username" as seen in the image below. Your password for SFTP is the same password you used to log into your Bluehost account. 

Figure 2: Finding your SFTP hostname (your Dedicated IP address) and username in the Bluehost panel. 

 
If you are confused about which password to use, it is the one you enter on this page: 
 
 

Figure 3: If you are confused about which password to use, it is the one you enter on this page. 

B. MySQL access: whitelist Code Guard's IP addresses 

In the Bluehost control panel, grant Code Guard's IP addresses access to your database. From your account homepage, click "home" in the upper left, then click "Remote MySQL" near the bottom of the page. 

Figure 4: Opening Remote MySQL from the Bluehost homepage to whitelist Code Guard's IP addresses. 

Your next task will be to enter the following numbers into the list of IPs you are granting MySQL access. 

When you are done, it should look like this (but with a different number for the first IP, as that is your Dedicated IP): 
 

Figure 5: The Remote MySQL access list after Code Guard's IP addresses have been added. 

You are now ready to use these credentials to add your site to Code Guard. The adding-a-website support article [insert link] shows you where to enter the credentials you collected. The image below shows what the file directory structure looks like at that step; look under public_html for the files associated with the website you want to back up. 

Figure 6: The cPanel file directory; look under public_html for your website's files.