Question about Webhosting

[andrewsvalesen]

I have webhosting and a domain.
I'm trying to upload a file to the webserver. But I need the address to the file to be "www.fakjslf.com/faska.exe" rather than "ftp:// userass.wags.com/file.exe"

can anyone help me?

 

[KSoD]

Your FTP access...can you get into the Pubilc_html folder? In there you will have to create either a directory or jsut upload the file. That will give you the result of the file being located at:

http://yourdomain.com/filename

I hope that helps. If not need some more info on who your webhost is so i can try to figure out how they do their hosting as this is how mine is...

 

[Kubel]

FTP and HTTP are two different protocols that serve files from pretty much the same place. In a linux environmnet, FTP will usually dump you to your home directory (/home/yourname/), and HTTP will usually dump you to your public directory (/home/yourname/public_html/) when you log on.

For example, when I visit yourname.org, I'm actually accessing files in /home/yourname/public_html/. So that's where you want to put your files. In the public_html directory (also linked as www in some cases).

If you are on a Windows server, your public_html directory is usually called wwwroot.

 

[n00bie379]

What's ore reliable ftp or http I wonder?