Alright, so I got a new domain, hosting, cpanel, and all that stuff. How do I go about putting my html file on the main domain addy instead of it just showing an index? 10 creds to the first person to help. Will check for your responses in the morning. Off to bed for now. Thanks much ahead of time. :wub:
Download an FTP program like SmartFTP for Windows (or Interarchy for Mac) and upload the files you want. If you need more help with this, PM me or catch me on AIM or MSN.
I think cPanel has built in file manager so you could upload the files that way... then /public_html/ is the dir they go in ^_^ Hope this helped.
Yes cPanel does. But a real FTP program is much better for the job. Its a load faster And since im guessing you have FireFox. They have an exstenstion for an FTP program. Its quick and easy and already in your browser http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info/fireftp
I use IE's ftp client for uploading, it is pretty quick. That part I was able to figure out. I just needed to know how to show the html page at my homepage instead of the index. Checking it out now, but I think Encrypted-67 is the one who gets the creds. Though WK rainbow made the first post, it wasn't the info I needed. Ok, that didn't do anything. I had the files in that folder already. How do I make the html file appear as the domain addy? Plz help, The file is in the public html folder, but this is the url it gives me for the file... http://www.www.eyeof4nub1s.com/homepage.html notice it has www twice, what's up with that? And I want to be able to remove homepage.html from the end of it. 20 creds to whoever has the right answer.
just make a file called index.html and put it in the public html folder then when you get the link to it just remove the index.html part and you should go to the page anyway
Delete the old index file. And make a new one. Make sure its index.html Edit this file with the info that you want on your home page. Go to your home page and whatever you entered should be there
MAKE SURE ITS IN THE PUBLIC HTML FOLDER! It was said before, but your not doing it. Its not supposed to be homepage.html, by the way! Please try that and post if you have any problems. You should use a FTP program instead, helps alot more.
Apparently I'm missing something.... I have the file in the public_html folder. I tried naming it index.html, and homepage.html.... neither work. ;( This is a screenshot of that folder, notice the url to the file is all screwed up. Thanks much to everyone who has tried helping. I really appreciate it. Sending some creds out to those that have tried helping. Still haven't figured it out though, if anyone has any other suggestions.
name that file "index.html" and put all the HTML and stuff you want on that file. That is the most important thing for your site. Then go to your site URL. Click refresh, and the contents of your site should show as the index.html instead of the directory. After that, you can start putting links on your index.html . If you want to link to something DIRECTLY off your site, you only need to put the file name. Like to another page, you have a file called otherpage.html . The HTML to link to that page off your site would be Code: [url="otherpage.html"]Other Page[/url] If you wanted to link to ANOTHER page that isn't on your site. Like, another site entirely you would put in the FULL URL Code: [url="http://www.othersite.com"]Other Site[/url] Note: the quotes NEED to be there in the HTML in order for it to recognize the URL. I hoped this helped you.
Hey man Get me on msn and i will help you for free because i have the same hosting cpanel as you ahah.
If you want to use that page all you have to do is log into cpanel, then go to (redirects). After that type in type www.eyeof4nub1s.com/homepage.html inside the second box leave the first one alone. After that you can access that page by just typing in http://www.eyeof4nub1s.com
like everyone else said bro. name that file index.html and it should appear on ur main page. but u must know the code html in order to build a site pretty much or else ur screwed :/. then just add other files, name them w/e u want, make sure they end in .html and then u can link to them from ur main part of ur site which is index.html hope that helped. donate credz if it helped cause i still have this old ass name, lol. and i have a whole new name that i use on other forums, would help a lot, thx.
The name of the page people see when they type in the URL to your site ALWAYS has to be index. It could be index.html, index.php, etc, depending on the file type, but it has to be index regardless.
