alndesigns
01-15-2009, 12:22 PM
Hi. I don't know what I'm doing and have made a mess of my website - or what used to be my website. For now I just want to have a "coming soon" page. I had one that I was able to get up (I have no clue how at this point).
However, it looked really horrible so I made a new one using iweb. I then tried to delete my first version and upload the files from iweb. But I made a disaster of things by trying all of the different uploading methods and trying to work through the tutorials.
The end result is that there's nothing there when you go to my url - alndesigns.com.
I contacted Hostmonster and they checked my cpanel and said that everything is working and that I have lots of files, but they are not in the right places, and that I must upload to my public folder.
quote: "Make sure you upload your web files into the site's root folder /public_html. Anything to show on the website should reside within this folder. I see many uploads outside of this directory. This would be part of the problem why the site does not show properly."
OK. So I'm trying to figure out how to do this via file manager. Right now I am at work so none of the website files are on my hard drive. There is no default.index.html file but there are a few index files in what I think is my site's root folder. /public_html - is in the little box in the left upper corner. Below that is a list of folders and files. I'm looking at the folder with the world icon and labeled public_html.
index.html
index2.html
public_index.html
I took screen shots but can't seem to attach them because they are in word, or text and I don't think that's compatible. Perhaps you could walk me through how to get the screen shots to appear here.
Bottom line help needed is how to find the right files in my file manager and how to move them to the right place so they show up online. I think all of the files are on the HM server somewhere.
Thanks in advance!! I would be so grateful if someone could help me - with babysteps kind of instructions.
Anne
However, it looked really horrible so I made a new one using iweb. I then tried to delete my first version and upload the files from iweb. But I made a disaster of things by trying all of the different uploading methods and trying to work through the tutorials.
The end result is that there's nothing there when you go to my url - alndesigns.com.
I contacted Hostmonster and they checked my cpanel and said that everything is working and that I have lots of files, but they are not in the right places, and that I must upload to my public folder.
quote: "Make sure you upload your web files into the site's root folder /public_html. Anything to show on the website should reside within this folder. I see many uploads outside of this directory. This would be part of the problem why the site does not show properly."
OK. So I'm trying to figure out how to do this via file manager. Right now I am at work so none of the website files are on my hard drive. There is no default.index.html file but there are a few index files in what I think is my site's root folder. /public_html - is in the little box in the left upper corner. Below that is a list of folders and files. I'm looking at the folder with the world icon and labeled public_html.
index.html
index2.html
public_index.html
I took screen shots but can't seem to attach them because they are in word, or text and I don't think that's compatible. Perhaps you could walk me through how to get the screen shots to appear here.
Bottom line help needed is how to find the right files in my file manager and how to move them to the right place so they show up online. I think all of the files are on the HM server somewhere.
Thanks in advance!! I would be so grateful if someone could help me - with babysteps kind of instructions.
Anne