Posted on 11/15/2011 9:35:50 PM PST by max americana
FR is usually full of smart guys unlike liberals. Had to ask this question, anyone who owns a website probably heard on Filezilla or just heading to your host cpanel to change or update info on your site.
Our IT guy is on vacation and we wanted to add some stuff (specifically images) to sub sections say, departments section A or go SECTION B. Like ESPN with basketball as 1 section to NFL to section 2.
We opened up Filezilla and all we could find is folder DOCS, CGI BIN, DISTRIBUTOR and IMAGES. The actual sections are missing so we have no clue where to place the images in the specific sections. You'd think FTP clients could spread out the folders easily. The host FTP is even worse. Just CGI and Logs-Apache. Checked every folder and couldn't find the sections or sub links. How do you find those folders.
Yes, we used SEARCH on Filezilla where we find the images already in the site, but the actual sections where to place them specifically is nowhere. help?
Select clear all.
Select clear all.
Select clear all.
clear all done
Right Click on it.
not connected to any server on the bottom right panel..
Right click on it and select a previous connection
(Host, Username, Password, Port).
Click on the connection in the dropdown menu and see
if you get a successful Directory listing
directory listing successful...
Is there a www folder there?
NONE. Just the “/”, and nothing after /
underneath is a folder with no name with the / right after the folder
On the top toolbar right click “View”.
Does “Remote Directory Tree” have a check before it?
yes
Double click on it.
In the Filename panel below it do you see folders
and is there a file named index.htm or index html?
on docs folder, none. All folders
If not, I cant help you as I dont know the file structue of your site.
You could open the site in a browser and check to see
what folder your pages are in in from the browser address bar.
EG. http://www.somesite.com/en/us/page.html
would mean that the page is located in the /en/us
directory.
I have to go home now.
Good luck!
thanks for your help
The first thing to do is close down Filezilla, and get away from your computer. If you don’t even know what a directory structure for the website looks like, you will do nothing constructive by accessing it and trying to upload files to it. Believe me, I’m not trying to be negative or nasty. I admin my own webserver with a lot of clients and work with this all day, all the time.
Even if you are successful in uploading images to the server, and somehow get them in the correct subdirectory, it will do no good if those images aren’t called or linked from some webpage. If you don’t know HTML, PHP or whatever language the webpages are written in, you WILL do more damage than anything.
There is NOTHING that is so important that you absolutely HAVE to get it up on the website if you don’t know even the basics of the structure of the site or the pages/file on it. You WILL do more damage and cost more money or the IT guys time than anything you think you might accomplish. Believe me, I’ve been doing this a lot of years and have had to “fix” all the problems caused by a client who thinks it’s so easy that they can do it themselves. Rather than save an hour of my billable time, they end up paying for many hours of time to correct what they’ve screwed up.
Really, the best thing you can do is just contact the IT guy and have him work on it remotely. If that’s not possible, then just wait until he can. You and he will be MUCH better off and unless you’re the boss, you may end up without a job for causing so much damage and problems and costs by screwing up the whole webserver. And yes, just uploading one bad/incorrect file to the website *could* take the whole website down if you don’t know what you’re doing.
Again, good luck, but the best thing you can do right now is not do anything.
Post your logon info and i will fix it....
logon info?
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