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FTP vs Fantastico?

by SuperStu
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Hi All,

I tried to upload a sales page to my website but it didn't work and I don't know why - please help.

I have an addon domain with Fantastico installed.

I don't want the sales page to be my main page so within the FTP I created a new directory under my sub/addon domain and uploaded the sales page which is called index.html but I can't see the page on my domain...

Is there a conflict between Fantastico and uploading pages through an FTP or have I done something else wrong?

Please help this hapless would be warrior, grrrrr.
#fantastico #ftp #query
  • Profile picture of the author Andyhenry
    fantastico is nothing to do with ftp..... can you point us to the page?
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    nothing to see here.

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  • Profile picture of the author paulie888
    Fantastico has nothing to do with your sales page issues. If you could give us more details about the location of your index.html for the sales page, we'll be able to better figure out what is going on here?
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    • Profile picture of the author sanssecret
      So your sales page should be at yourdomain.com/directoryname?

      Like the other guys have said, your sales page has nothing to do with Fantastico. It simply installs wp so you don't have to bother creating databases and uploading wp via ftp.

      If you have created another directory (separate from the one where wp is installed) and uploaded your sales page then it should show up when you navigate to that directory.
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  • Profile picture of the author SuperStu
    I'm using FileZilla

    Remote site/public_html/www.stuart-stephen.com
    Within this directory I created a new file/directory called prod1
    Within prod1 I have uploaded the file/sales page index.html

    Clicking on the prod1 folder within the remote site I see:
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    index.html

    Thanks
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    • Profile picture of the author smartlazy
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      Stuart,

      I think the problem may be because of the Wordpress blog you created in your domain name. I think it's in the .htaccess file which redirects subdirectories to the main blog.
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      • Profile picture of the author SuperStu
        Originally Posted by smartlazy View Post

        Stuart,

        I think the problem may be because of the Wordpress blog you created in your domain name. I think it's in the .htaccess file which redirects subdirectories to the main blog.
        Thanks for your comment however I don't understand what you mean, please expand, thanks.
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        • Profile picture of the author smartlazy
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          Originally Posted by stuart.stephen View Post

          Thanks for your comment however I don't understand what you mean, please expand, thanks.
          I'm not a Wordpress expert but I have lots of experience in using it. When you create a folder/directory within a Wordpress blog and that folder doesn't have an index file, that folder will show your Wordpress blog (most likely a Page Not Found notification).

          So make sure that you have uploaded the index.html file to that folder. Then try accessing it again through your browser.
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          • Profile picture of the author SuperStu
            I received a 'the page you are looking for cannot be found' message but I have uploaded the index.html file to this directory, not sure what to try now but thanks for your help.

            Originally Posted by smartlazy View Post

            I'm not a Wordpress expert but I have lots of experience in using it. When you create a folder/directory within a Wordpress blog and that folder doesn't have an index file, that folder will show your Wordpress blog (most likely a Page Not Found notification).

            So make sure that you have uploaded the index.html file to that folder. Then try accessing it again through your browser.
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            • Profile picture of the author SuperStu
              ok call me silly if you like

              If I type in my domain + directory I created I can see my sales page I uploaded but (and this is the part where I may be silly) I cannot see the page in my wp-admin site - for some reason I expected too....

              Please confirm these 2 facts are correct:
              1. I will not be able to see the page through wp-admin
              2. I am silly

              Thanks
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              • Profile picture of the author Brian Alaway
                If the page was not created via your wp-admin panel then you won't see it there. You can link to your html page by using the WordPress › Page Links To « WordPress Plugins This plugin allows you to make a WordPress page or post link to a URL of your choosing, instead of its WordPress page or post URL. You can then edit that page via FileZilla or any html editor.
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              • Profile picture of the author paulie888
                Originally Posted by stuart.stephen View Post

                ok call me silly if you like

                If I type in my domain + directory I created I can see my sales page I uploaded but (and this is the part where I may be silly) I cannot see the page in my wp-admin site - for some reason I expected too....

                Please confirm these 2 facts are correct:
                1. I will not be able to see the page through wp-admin
                2. I am silly

                Thanks
                Since this is a static HTML page that was not implemented/installed via Wordpress, you'll not see it show up in your Wordpress control panel. Like I said earlier, static HTML pages have nothing to do with Wordpress - you can install both on the same domain, but you'll have to access them separately as they're individual entities that are apart from one another.
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  • Profile picture of the author Andyhenry
    The only pages that will show up in your wordpress admin section are the pages you create in wordpress. You can have as many static html pages in addition to this as you like but none of them will show in your wordpress admin.
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    nothing to see here.

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  • Profile picture of the author karenhudson
    You can use filezilla or CuteFtp for uploading both works fine
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    • Profile picture of the author thecableguy
      Don't know if this makes a difference, but is your other index page html or htm?
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