Hi everyone, I run a forum which has been up for over 2 years now. For the past 2 years I was on shared hosting but recently switch (beginning of October) to a vds. Anyways my buddy transferred all the files and the site runs fine. However, I cannot seem to edit the home page. I have tried so hard but nothing seems to work. I used to update the homepage every week, by just editing it in my ftp program using notepad. Now when I go to edit it, I can, however when I then press upload nothing happens even though it appears as I uploaded it. I honestly cant figure out whats wrong. Can someone please help me? I appreciate any and all help. Thankyou and happy turkey day.
Please check your file permission for the page your are uploading, may be file permissions have changed.
try inetrnet explorer In address bar put ftp://yoursitename.com From file menu choose login as After that you will see folders Go to the desired folder copy files from local disk and paste into ftp window Regards Alex
Guys, thanks for the advice and feedback. This is a log of what I get in my ftp program when I go to edit the homepage. [11:28:06] 230 Login successful. [11:28:06] SYST [11:28:06] 215 UNIX Type: L8 [11:28:06] Detected Server Type: UNIX [11:28:06] FEAT [11:28:06] 211-Features: [11:28:06] EPRT [11:28:06] EPSV [11:28:06] MDTM [11:28:06] PASV [11:28:06] REST STREAM [11:28:06] SIZE [11:28:06] TVFS [11:28:06] 211 End [11:28:06] PWD [11:28:06] 257 "/" [11:28:06] CWD /public_html [11:28:07] 250 Directory successfully changed. [11:28:07] PWD [11:28:07] 257 "/public_html" [11:28:07] TYPE A [11:28:07] 200 Switching to ASCII mode. [11:28:07] PASV [11:28:07] 227 Entering Passive Mode (208,109,163,16,160,77) [11:28:07] Opening data connection to 208.109.163.16 Port: 41037 [11:28:07] LIST -aL [11:28:07] 150 Here comes the directory listing. [11:28:07] 226 Directory send OK. [11:28:07] 2160 bytes transferred. (22.4 KB/s) (94 ms) [11:28:38] NOOP [11:28:38] 200 NOOP ok. [11:28:47] TYPE I [11:28:47] 200 Switching to Binary mode. [11:28:47] SIZE index.html [11:28:48] 213 6364 [11:28:48] MDTM index.html [11:28:48] 213 20071004194051 [11:28:48] No rule matched. Default Action="Ask". [11:28:50] PASV [11:28:50] 227 Entering Passive Mode (208,109,163,16,236,0) [11:28:50] Opening data connection to 208.109.163.16 Port: 60416 [11:28:50] RETR index.html [11:28:50] 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for index.html (6364 bytes). [11:28:50] 226 File send OK. [11:28:50] 6364 bytes transferred. (36.1 KB/s) (172 ms) [11:28:50] MDTM index.html [11:28:51] 213 20071004194051 [11:29:06] PASV [11:29:06] 227 Entering Passive Mode (208,109,163,16,113,85) [11:29:06] Opening data connection to 208.109.163.16 Port: 29013 [11:29:06] STOR index.html [11:29:07] 553 Could not create file. [11:29:07] 0 bytes transferred. (0 bytes/s) (15 ms) [11:29:07] MDTM 20071123162905 index.html [11:29:07] 550 Could not set file modification time. [11:29:07] Transfer failed. Use the Transfer Queue for automatic retries.
Make sure that the public_html directory is owned by your username, and has permissions set that'll allow you to create / modify files within it. If you have Linux shell access, this would be accomplished like sp: chown -R username: public_html chmod 755 public_html Code (markup):
The permissions on the file/folder are set wrong. Chown the /username/ folder to your username and change the permissions on public_html to 755