so i've never used a webhosting before now all i want to do is know how to upload files like .html so that when I go to mydomain.com I can see my website that I made with the .html files and not the index of / and parent directory etc. please help its really frustrating! thanks in advance cheers! ps. if it helps any I'm using freehostia?
Sounds like two problems. One, you need a ftp program to upload your files from your computer to your host. I use the FireFTP add-on for Firefox. It's free. You also need your home page to be named index.html, index.php, or default.html/.php. Good luck!
You need to upload the files you want on your site to your host. They will provide FTP credentials. FileZilla is a good free FTP client as well. You will also need to point the nameservers for your domain at your registrar to the ones provided by your hosting company.
k I now understand the uploading its just the problem i have that when I go to mydomain.com I made a blank file index.html and uploaded it to a /www/mydomain.com/index.html on the host and that got rid of the index of/ and parent directory etc. on the mydoamin.com main page and now its just blank so now thats out of the way! so now I just don't know where I put the actual .html file that I made to show up on mydomain.com ps. I'm known to over complicate things I hope someone knows what I'm tlaking about with this one lol
You might consider uploading wordpress, it makes building a site much easier - you won't need to worry so much about where you put things, lol.
so I played around with it I rename the fileiwanttoupload.html to index.html and it worked so is that what I'm suppose to do everytime? lol
You can take a look at our flash tutorials (http://www.brontobytes.com/tutorials.php) to better understand the ftp procedure.
I bought the domain name through them and pretty much to boil it all down I thought that all you had to do was upload your files and the webhost puts it all together for example heres what I did this one site I used in the past did everything for you lets call it domain1.com so I downloaded that website file save page as etc. and uploaded all the files to the host for domain2.com thinking that it puts the files together for you but the website didn't show up except the page that says index of/ parent directory etc. and it shows me all the files I uploaded see my problem yet?
Could be directory browsing turned on in the web server? Or you need to set a default page (like index.html) to load when you hit domain2.com. (done on the webserver, then you need to make sure you have that page in the root of your website on the server)
so pretty much I just can't download my website domain1.com via file save page as and upload it to the host domain2.com because the index.html file is not set-up properly to read the.css .js .jpeg files that I downloaded from domain1.com?
If you download the entire site from domain1, including all the css, .js, .jpeg, whatever is in the root folder, it should work just fine when you upload it to domain2, assuming of course, that you make sure any links in the site now point to domain2. When a web server tries to decide what file it should show to a browser it's usually set up to look firstly for index.htm then index.html then index.php. Sometimes they are also set up to look for default.html as well. So you need to make sure you have one of those files on your hosting. It's common for it to be index.html. That's the one that will be served by the hosting when a browser logs onto yoursite.com.
You see the index of / and parent directory because you haven't uploaded pages to your host. Go to you web hosting company's web page, log in to client's area, than enter your cPanel. If you log there for the first time, there will be a video tutorial which will explain the basics you should know about working in cPanel an uploading your site. We don't think you can have any problems more.
If you have a problem with web hosting service and you pay money for this service - contact your current web hosting provider and allow them to take care of the problem
not all hosts will be ready to help. some of them might ask you to purchase "managed service" so that they can cover their costs