I have just started a website. Actually, I paid some money for a new domain name and paid for some stuff, etc… I have a link to the control panel, but, there are a lot of different control icons, and I can’t make heads or tails of the icon names. (Actually, I can, but I can’t figure out which one will launch my home page. What should that sort of thing be called? I used to do this junk back in 2000, but I have forgotten most of it.
fOLLOWING ARE THE NAMES OF THE ICONS THAT ARE ON MY CONTROL PANEL. Which ones should have my publishing links in it?
Mail
Webmail
Change Password
Parked Domains
Addon Domains
FTP Manager
File Manager
Disk usage
Backup
Password Protect Directories
Error pages
Subdomains
MySQL Databases
SSH/Shell Access
Redirects
Frontpage Extensions
Web/FTP Stats
Raw Access Logs
Raw Log Manager
Error log
Subdomain Stats
Chatroom
PhpMyChat
Bulletin Board
CGI Center
Scripts Library
Agora Shopping Cart
Cron jobs
Network Tools
MIME Types
Apache Handlers
Manage OpenPGP Keys
HotLink Protection
Index Manager
IP Deny Manager
SSL Manager
Fantastico
Thanks a lot. TLL
Some first help, before other, more experienced dopers come by:
I think the most useful tool for managing your website would be an FTP client. Those are handy software tools where you enter login data for your webspace, and the software will display, in two separate windows, files in a specified folder on your system, and files on the server, downloadable from anywhere in the internet. The client will allow you to easily upload files to your site. If I may recommend you a client, take Filezilla.
(You get the FTP login data the client needs from your service provider; browser the categories on your control panel for that stuff; probably it’s FTP Manager)
Alternatively, the File Manager most likely is a web-based tool where you can upload files from your system to the server.
Web pages are files. The File Manager will give you access to your files and hence your web pages.
I’m not sure what you mean by publishing links unless you mean some sort of web based uploader that many sites have. That, too, should be in the File Manager.
The main page of your site more than likely has the file name of index.html (if that helps any).
Sounds like you’ve got cPanel. It’s a nice control panel that is often used on Linux hosts.
The others before me have got it right. You need to get an FTP client, or use cPanel’s file manager to upload your web site files.
You don’t have to access cPanel all that much—or ever—if you don’t want to. It’s got lots of good stuff there, but all you have to do is upload your files and make sure they display. I find that with most Linux hosts, you fill in your FTP client thus:
Host or ftp address: ftp.yourdomainname.com
username, password (use whatever info they gave you)
directory: /public_html/
You don’t have to fill in the directory, but I find that most Linux hosts want your files to be in the /public_html/ folder. YMMV.
Good luck and have fun!
First of all, thank you all for your quick and helpful responses.
I am in my File Manager, and it seems a bit confusing, but not terminally so.
Good yosemite, I do indeed have cpanel-cpanelX, to be specific. I clicked on file manager, and now I have these.
Current Folder)
Create New Folder
Upload file(s)
.fantasticodata
.htpasswds
.neomail
.trash
mail
public_ftp
public_html
tmp
www
Create New File
.contactemail
.lastlogin
I tried to upload a file, and it didn’t seem to go anywhere. I still cannot make a home page. when I type in my url, i get an error page.
When I click on public_html, i get the following options, neither one of which am Iinterested in.
Delete this folder and all files under it
Rename this folder
Change Permissions
Move this folder
Copy this folder
any ideas, anybody?
again, thank you all very much, yosemite, daffyduck and schnitte!
Click on the ICON not the folder name.
Clicking on the ICON opens that folder so you can see the files.
Clicking on the NAME gives you options that you can use on that folder.
On your local computer create an index.html (or index.html) file. This will be your home page.
Click on the ICON for public_html
Click on Upload Files
Browse to your computer and find your index.htm (index.html) page.
Load that file.
Now when you use your website name (http://www.yoursitename.com) you will see the contents of your index.htm (or index.html) file.