This is a limitation of Cpanel 10. I upgraded to Cpanel 11 on my dedicated server (Bleeding edge so it may have a lot of bugs) and it gets rid of this limitation so a user can create an FTP account so it points anywhere within their account folder.

Hello,

The cPanel release 11 which is also referred as EDGE is used for testing purposes and thus you shouldn't expect a stable behavior from it. If you decide to upgrade, LP staff can do that for you since you have the managed addon as well as you can do that yourself as the process is not complicated.

We don't inform about cPanel 11 because it is still in development. If you don't want hassles then you should not be running EDGE or CURRENT releases of cPanel.

If you decide to proceed with the upgrade, it is more than likely that the settings will be imported to the new version. However, downgrade may be not so smooth, though the downgrade itself is possible.

My personal recommendation would be to avoid editing cPanel scripts because stable cPanel release is issued every one-two months and your changes will be overwritten upon the upgrade.

As for the FTP directory setting, it is stored in the /etc/vftp/account_username for each FTP user on the account. You can edit it there and put the needed value.

I hope this helps.

Hi,

I'm not sure but I think that the file is accessed upon each login. If you modify it directly, it should not be overwritten until somebody modifies the FTP account from cPanel.

I hope this helps.

cPanel 11 is rather stable now and we use it on our servers installed recently. It comes with some significant changes to mail and Apache build systems, but they allow to do more customizations and optimizations to the software installed on the server.