Setting up first website

Shelley Marais

• June 05, 2017 03:51

Hey y'all. Using cPanel happened as of this morning for me, and I could use a bit of guidance. I've loaded a test site into home/user/test. 1) how do I open the actual files in a front end view to test the site. I can only see where I can open the html file. 2) Where do I allocate the test site a url, or if a url is automatically allocated, where do I pick it up? I realise both questions are linked. I'm a digital marketer with html experience by trade, not a techie, but sometimes we have to do... Any assistance would be appreciated.

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  Infopro

  • June 05, 2017 09:03

  home/username/public_html/ is the same as: example.com Does that help?

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  Shelley Marais

  • June 05, 2017 09:08

  home/username/public_html/ is the same as: example.com Does that help?

  
  Hi, not really - I didn't load in public_html, because there's an existing site I need to leave up until the new one is beta tested I loaded the new one as home/user/test - not in the public_html directory

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  Shelley Marais

  • June 05, 2017 09:10

  home/username/public_html/ is the same as: example.com Does that help?

  
  I've figured out where the viewer is, but still need to find the actual index url, in order to relink my images, JS etc Pic attached of directory

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  Infopro

  • June 05, 2017 09:24

  Hi, not really - I didn't load in public_html, because there's an existing site I need to leave up until the new one is beta tested I loaded the new one as home/user/test - not in the public_html directory

  
  You'll need to move /test/, into /public_html/ for it to be viewable in your browser. So: home/username/public_html/test/ Also you might change the directory named Test, to test. No need for caps on directory names.

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  Shelley Marais

  • June 05, 2017 09:30

  So me setting up a subdomain per the attached pic was a waste?

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  Infopro

  • June 05, 2017 09:39

  You didn't mention the subdomain being created in your original post. You can create a Subdomain outside the public_html. You might want to remove it, and then recreate from: cPanel > Domains > Subdomains, without the upper case T in Testing though. Once you've properly recreated the sub.domain, and made sure it works at testing.example.com then: testing.example.com is the same as: home/username/public_html/testing/ Going by your screenshot: home/username/public_html/testing/test/

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  Shelley Marais

  • June 05, 2017 10:10

  So me setting up a subdomain per the attached pic was a waste?

  
  Ok, I changed per the attached and your original comments - I still can't get the url for the test index.html

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  Infopro

  • June 05, 2017 10:20

  Does example.com open in your browser properly? If yes, then: home/username/public_html/Test/index.html is: example.com/Test/index.html

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  Shelley Marais

  • June 12, 2017 07:18

  Does example.com open in your browser properly? If yes, then: home/username/public_html/Test/index.html is: example.com/Test/index.html

  
  

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  Infopro

  • June 12, 2017 09:21

  You're running cPanel on ubuntu? Seeing at your main domain does work, you might want to check permissions on that test directory, and the index.html you have in it.

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