I'm not very experianced at making websites and I find the control panel a little confusing. I'd really love it if you could explain a few simple things to me.
1) What are the all those defult folders for?
2) Do I have to put my website files in a certain folder or name them a certain name to connect them to my domain name?
3) When I go to my domain name I come up with an error telling me I are not authorized to view this page, how do I change that to make my own website actually appear?
Full Version: More silly questions
1) What are the all those defult folders for?
If you are on linux hosting the following folder are designed for:
etc - your mail and password settings
public_ftp - anonymous ftp server
public_html - web documents, images and scripts
tmp - statistics and temprorary files
www - is a link to public_html
The same for windows:
db - databases
logs - http log files
wwwroot - web documents, images and scripts
2) Do I have to put my website files in a certain folder or name them a certain name to connect them to my domain name?
As mentioned above you should put websites files in folder public_html or wwroot depending on your operating system,
) When I go to my domain name I come up with an error telling me I are not authorized to view this page, how do I change that to make my own website actually appear?
Please tell me your domain and I'll look. I suspect that your folder doesn't have start file and directory listing is prohibited by web server
If you are on linux hosting the following folder are designed for:
etc - your mail and password settings
public_ftp - anonymous ftp server
public_html - web documents, images and scripts
tmp - statistics and temprorary files
www - is a link to public_html
The same for windows:
db - databases
logs - http log files
wwwroot - web documents, images and scripts
2) Do I have to put my website files in a certain folder or name them a certain name to connect them to my domain name?
As mentioned above you should put websites files in folder public_html or wwroot depending on your operating system,
) When I go to my domain name I come up with an error telling me I are not authorized to view this page, how do I change that to make my own website actually appear?
Please tell me your domain and I'll look. I suspect that your folder doesn't have start file and directory listing is prohibited by web server
Thanks for the help with the folders ^__^
My domain is www.drifting-dreams.com It's probally my fault it doesn't work. I wasn't putting my stuff in that wwwroot folder
My domain is www.drifting-dreams.com It's probally my fault it doesn't work. I wasn't putting my stuff in that wwwroot folder
You're right.
You need to upload index.html file to your wwwroot directory to get it displayed at drifting-dreams.com
You need to upload index.html file to your wwwroot directory to get it displayed at drifting-dreams.com
Trying to do that but it's not letting me upload anything to the wwwroot folder or any of the subfolders.
I feel like such an idiot.
Eidt: Think I've got it >_<
I feel like such an idiot.
Eidt: Think I've got it >_<
http://drifting-dreams.com/
I open it and it shows me
OMG this is totally a page, and it totally works
I open it and it shows me
OMG this is totally a page, and it totally works
... yeah I kinda put that there out of frustration. 
Thanks for your help
Thanks for your help
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