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| * [[guide_connect|Connect to your webhosting account]]. | * [[guide_connect|Connect to your webhosting account]]. | ||
| - | Kuldip a rathod | + | ===== Web Site Directory ===== |
| + | Once you are connected, make sure you are in the remote directory dedicated to store a web pages. It may be the one you get in after logging in (it is the case if you do not see any subdirectories after logging in). But with some providers you will have several subdirectories available, from which only one is visible on the Internet. Such subdirectory will have a name like ''www'', ''htdocs'', ''httpdocs'', ''public_html'' or other. | ||
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| + | All files you upload to this directory will be visible on the Internet. So for example if you upload your page ''pictures.html'' into your web directory ''htdocs'' and your site domain is ''example.com'', anyone will be able to see your page at address ''http://example.com/pictures.html''. | ||
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| + | By convention there is a single file that gets displayed if you do not specify any file in the address directly, i.e. frontpage. The name of the file is usually ''index.html'' or ''index.htm'' (or different extension if you use some scripting language). | ||
| ===== File Names ===== | ===== File Names ===== | ||
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| Also URL (web addresses) are case sensitive, which is different to how Windows treat filenames. So if you first test your pages locally on Windows and links stops working once you upload the pages, it is probably for inconsistencies in letter cases. For example you may have a link to ''Mein_Gastebuch.html'', but the file is actually named ''mein_gastebuch.html''. This is not the same on Internet. | Also URL (web addresses) are case sensitive, which is different to how Windows treat filenames. So if you first test your pages locally on Windows and links stops working once you upload the pages, it is probably for inconsistencies in letter cases. For example you may have a link to ''Mein_Gastebuch.html'', but the file is actually named ''mein_gastebuch.html''. This is not the same on Internet. | ||
| - | Dj songs | + | ===== Uploading Pages ===== |
| + | You may start uploading by dragging your files to remote panel of WinSCP. You can drag the files either from local panel (if you are using [[ui_commander|Commander interface]]) or from Windows Explorer. | ||
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| + | Read [[guide_upload|guide to upload files]] or [[task_upload|full documentation of uploading files]]. | ||
| ===== Editing Pages ===== | ===== Editing Pages ===== | ||