Using SSH to build a website help!!?
I’m trying to build a website using SSH. I have an Index.html file, but I want to be able to input the web address directly and arrive at my homepage without having to click on "Index.html" which is what I have to do.
I also do not know where to upload files to (which folder). In my Index.html file I am hyperlinking to a word, powerpoint, mpg video, excel, and pdf documents. They each have at least one picture in them, with the powerpoint having all 3.
The only folders I see after connecting to my server are: public_html, private, Mail, mail (yeah…2 of them. I don’t know why.), bin, backup, .cfdir. Where do i place/upload the files to so that when I click on the hyperlink for an image file I see the actual image file without getting a broken picture. For some reason, whenever I try it usually says "cannot locate file on server"…but I don’t know where to locate the file or upload it! I am using seascape right now to try and build it. I’m pretty confused though, any help would be appreciated.
I’m supposed to do this for a computer class, but the instructor didn’t give very many directions/notes. We are supposed to create a webpage that hyperlinks to the files that we need to include so he can just click on them and see the actual file with pictures and video working. Please help!!!
I’m not sure about the second poster. I mean, when I check online, the first page it goes to is a page that lists all the resources there and the INDEX.html file. It isn’t immediately incorporated into it.
here’s the link: http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~clam1988
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1. Log into your web-server.
2. In your public_html folder create sub-folders like images, videos,excel,pdfdocuments, etc.
3. Now upload the appropriate files in the appropriate folders.
4. Check all the links in your index.html file.
5. Let’s say you have an image of ‘conditional_formatting.jpg’ in the images folder. Your link should be ‘<a href="http://www.yourdomainname.com/images/ conditional_formatting.jpg">Conditional Formatting</a>’
6. Now correct all the links in the same manner.
7. Upload your index.html file into the public_html folder.
Well first off your homepage has to be named index.html because once you have it online it will be called what ever your domain name is. For example if your domain name is bobsauto.com that’s what your index.html will come up as once it’s online. And continuing with that if you have another page that’s linked off you homepage called parts.html for example it’s going to come up as bobsauto.com/parts.html. I hope you kind of got that. But sorry I’m going to have to stop here because it is just much for me to explain so I’m going to give you these links to two videos to will explain everything your trying to figure out. I know it’s in dreamweaver but it’s still going to answer your questions so just check them out.
Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXZQ3_AjJ6I&feature=PlayList&p=9E6604CC9CE28088&index=0
Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGogG3bGjj8&feature=PlayList&p=9E6604CC9CE28088&index=1
You don’t use SSH to create a website, SSH is a remote access method (i.e. accessing the server computer from your computer). It may be used to upload the files for the website and do some configuration stuff.
For the first question: "Redirecting http://www.something.com/ to http://www.something.com/index.html"
This is merely a server configuration problem. I don’t know what server you’re using, so I can’t tell you how. The commonly used server is usually either Apache or IIS. In most server, the index.html redirection is usually already set up. Also, you don’t need your teacher to tell you this, but Google is at http://www.google.com/
Second question: "where to upload files?"
This highly depends on the server configuration, but since you mentioned that there are "public_html" folder, this is usually where you put most of the documents. The "private" folder, like its name, is used to store files that shouldn’t be accessible from outside. "bin" is short for binary, to store programs.