Uploading problem

Hello infobox

I have never used filezilla to do uploading. I use CuteFTP all the time. It is a great program for moving files or down. You get two windows. The left side is your computer and the right side is your web server. You select the directory that you want the files to upload to.

you want to make sure you upload files into the dir public_html or www. this is the location for all your files to go (and sub dirs).

If you have an index.php file in this dir, you need to delete it and then upload your entire site including any sub-dirs you have (like images dir).

After this is done, you should be able to point your browser to your web site address and your new index.php (or index.html) will be visible in the browser. If not, then somethins is worng with your uploading or the site you built.

If you want to make sure everything is OK before uploading your site, make a simple index.htm file with a single <p> tag in it that says Hello World or something and upload it to test with... It that goes OK, then delete it off the server and do the real upload....

That should do it for you...

Have a Great Day!

I've been using Filezilla for years. The problem is definitely not the ftp software. I'm guessing you don't have a properly titled home page in your root directory, so that's why you're seeing a list of files. By default, the server looks for a page titled index.htm(l) or home.htm(l) when the address supplied is incomplete (ie: www.mysite.com, instead of www.mysite.com/index.htm). It may also be configured to use index.php or home.php, and can probably be set to include other extensions as well.

Im new to this so i might be wrong. But on your webpage maker software make sure you choose a setting that says something like " set this page to home page"...And make sure you set the home page as the home page....I used xsitepro to do the designing and i had the index page come up with all the links under them when i typed in the url...Now it goes straight to the home page.

Hope that helps...

Check in the source code of your website. Look for something like c:\documents and settings or c:\users, if you see that it means the links are wrong. Change them to just the names of the html files they should be linking to

Be sure to define your homepage on your hosting or rename your homepage to index.html or index.php if you're using PHP.

Gotten the hang of it. Thanks for all your response.