In this article, I will help you to setup FTP with FileZilla on google cloud to manage your files. You can connect, transfer and edit files on your VM Instance remotely. You can get simple and understandable steps to setup FileZilla on google cloud. Let’s have a brief look on PuTTY.

Before We Setup FTP With FileZilla On Google Cloud

Install PuTTYgen – We need to install PuTTYgen on our system. If you are working with Ubuntu you can check out our article How to Install PuTTY on Ubuntu Linux

Using PuTTY you can generate SSH Key. You can use this application to generate a private and public key pair in order to encrypt the connection between your Google Cloud instance and FileZilla.

Install FileZilla – We need to install FileZilla

You can get simple and understandable steps to install PHP on CentOS. Before we move into the installation, let’s have a brief look on PHP.

What is this PHP? Let me tell you. PHP means Hypertext Processor, which is a programming language for web development. You can create dynamic web page contents or images as you wish.

CentOS is a Community Enterprise Operating System. It is an open-source platform for non-productive developmental work. For production concern, those works can be migrated to RHEL (Payable) Linux distribution platform.

For now, we can focus on PHP 5.6, which will be the basic version widely used. Later will explain to you how to install any version of PHP on CentOS.