Need some help uploading site

[eternaloptimist]

Hi everyone.
I just bought a domain for my learning purposes and uploaded it via ftp (filezilla). problem is; when I go to the domain and have to navigate a few folders to get to my index. I would like the index to show up automatically.

thanks

 

[PsyWulf]

There must be an index.htm or index.html in the home folder of the site,so either change the home location or move the files

 

[DrJohnZoidberg]

Is your site in that admin folder?

You must either move the contents of your site (including the index file as mentioned above) to the root folder or if you want to create a separate subdomain like admin.yoursite.com then you need to create a vhost in apache and set up a new A record on your DNS.

 

[eternaloptimist]

the site seems to be in the admin folder. I tried to delete all the files and upload them again but it's not working. my index seems to be www.site.com/admin
so i need to move to move the files out of the admin folder? not sure how to tbh...

 

[DrJohnZoidberg]

the site seems to be in the admin folder. I tried to delete all the files and upload them again but it's not working. my index seems to be www.site.com/admin
so i need to move to move the files out of the admin folder? not sure how to tbh...

You just need to move all the files out of the admin folder and move them to the parent folder. It will most likely be called public_html.

Currently you probably have it like this: public_html/admin/index.html

You want this: public_html/index.html

EDIT: Or just navigate to www.yoursite.com/admin and worry about the landing page later.

 

[eternaloptimist]

the files are in this folder

not sure if that's the root?

 

[DrJohnZoidberg]

the files are in this folder

not sure if that's the root?

Can't tell from that screen shot. What is up one folder from there?

 

[eternaloptimist]

everything is in the .. folder. i think i have to move everything out but I can't! haha I'm useless at this ...

 

[ChocolateBadger]

Do you have a public_html folder?

 

[eternaloptimist]

no, i don't think so. just a folder with 2 dots (like so ..)

 

[eternaloptimist]

Thanks for the help guys! i had to create a directory and name it "public_html" (as you guys suggested). i then dragged everything inside and deleted them from the admin folder.

Thanks again!

 

[Waansin]

everything is in the .. folder. i think i have to move everything out but I can't! haha I'm useless at this ...

I'm trying to remember a point in my past when I didn't know what ".." meant. Probably the first time I sat in front of a computer console - DOS in the late 80's I guess. Problem with modern GUI operating systems is they hide all of these details.

eternaloptimist: in case you have found out yet, the ".." is a pointer to the parent folder. Also, for websites, the physical folder for the root of the site can be anywhere as long as the web server is told where to look.