Upload My Web Site

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.

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.

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).

Before you start uploading/creating pages, make sure you use reasonable file names. It is strongly recommended not to use punctuation characters, spaces and some special characters in filenames to be published on Internet. Hence instead of Mein Gästebuch.html, use mein_gastebuch.html.

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.

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 Commander interface) or from Windows Explorer.

Read guide to upload files or full documentation of uploading files.

Edit the page and hit Save. See syntax for Wiki syntax (note that not all Wiki syntax is allowed on this site). Please edit the page only if you can improve it. If you want to discuss your contribution or anything regarding the documentation, use Documentation forum. Although anyone can edit this page, if you want some credit for your contribution, you should Login first. If you want to test some things, learn to make your first steps on the playground.

If you want to create the new page, either create new file locally and upload it. Or use File(s) > New > File command.

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