[Joou]

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Oh. My. God. I typed this horribly long post, submitted, and somehow I had gotten logged out. And it didn't submit. And I lost everything I typed. *royally ticked*

Anyway.

I'm all typed out now, so I'm going to probably make this shorter than the one I lost. D: But I'll try to include everything important.

*sigh* I was just finally able to get hosted on an ftp server. I downloaded an ftp program (filezilla, if it matters), and began to to upload my files. But upon visiting my main address (http, not the ftp), I find that it looks just as it did BEFORE I uploaded anything at all. Just the "Index of /" title, the "Parent Directory" link, and the "cgi-bin" directory. Nothing that I uploaded showed up. My images, my index.html, nada. And when I typed in the supposed URL they would have, I got a page not found. So, I log on to the ftp server, and see that they were indeed uploaded, but the files are named, basically:

C:\Documents and Settings\Desktop\(My ftp logon [username/psswd/address])\(filename)

Well, that explains why they aren't showing up. But why is it doing that? Is it because I have dialup? How do I get them to be viewable to everybody (and myself, for that matter)?

If it isn't blatantly obvious already, I'm rather callow in the subject of ftp. D: Arghblah. All the tutorials I can find are the exact same thing that tell you how to use the ftp program, but not what to do if any problems such as this are encountered... so that's why I came here to ask for some help. Or become a laughingstock because I'm doing something wrong that is very obvious and I'm too stupid to figure it out.
Ah, well. Only the replies will tell. D:

Thanks for reading/helping. (if ye do)

>.>

*copies what is written before submitting this time*

[bizzar528]

Are there multiple folders when you upload already created for you? Which folder stores your website?

For standard cpanel, you have to put your site in a sub folder on your account, not just in the root which is probably what you did. Other control panel software does it as well. What's your host and managment software?

It's not a ftp or http problem, it's a file managment problem.

[hadamadhu]

You must define the ftp folder in your ftp client software. If your webserver is linux there must be folder like httpddocs, httpddoc where you will have to upload your web related files (index.php or other index page)

I use Macromedia Dream weaver FTP utility, it seems easy to do with. Check it out.

[unklsanya]

connect to your server, with filezilla you should be able to right click each file, click rename in the menu that appears and rename your files