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I contacted my hosting company and was unable to make live my website. I believe I filled out the publish dialog box including other web host settings. Am I doing everything right in the screenshot? I filled out the other web hosting settings dialog box and click okay but did not get a confirmation. I then opened it back up and click Explore Web Pace button and filled in the password and then getting an error dialog box. Can someone guide me through this please?
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My guess, because your screen shot is too small for my tired old eyeballs, is you have to add a sub-directory, something like /public_html or some such. Ask your web host if you need to publish your files to a sub-directory. Most web hosts do this.
For now never mind that because there's another way I can upload. I call my hosting company and I'm able to drop my save as file into the cPanel. When I did so with my hosting Company tech support on the phone with me the file would not upload because I don't know how it was saved. They need to know what's file extension it is "save as" or "read as". Do you know the answer to this question.
You can't save your XAR or WEB file to the web host because this is the working file. Not the HTML files needed to get your site on-line.
What you can do is File > Export Website and save to a folder on your desktop. Then upload the contents of the folder (including the sub-folder index_htm_files) to the web host.
But this is a bother when you can publish directly from Xara and make changes quickly instead of having to upload all these files each time.
Who is your web hosting company? I can check their website and see if I can determine the sub-folder you need to publish to.
I would greatly appreciate that! My hosting company is Inmotion Hosting. http://inmotionhosting.com
Thank you so much!!
I visited their site and all I can see is they require a path to your Joomia files which is not at all the same as the standard HTML files that Xara and most web design programs create.
I sent support there an email and referenced this thread and asked if they can respond directly here.
If I hear anything back from them I will post it here.
I took a look at the hosting companies site and under FTP in the Support Center it states that your main files are located in a directory called public_html. So it should be your domain name/public_html to upload your files to.
Ray
Well done Ray. I missed that.
So enter public_html in the Sub-folder box, and try publishing again and see if this works for you.
gwpriester, What a great group we have here!!! I was able to upload it to Inmotion Hosting thanks for your instructions but the only hold up right now is that ENOM dot com's admin servers are down. You see, I need to have them point my domain name to Inmotion's servers and once that's completed my website will be online. I hope I don't have to bother you guys anymore but as soon as I know today or tomorrow I'll let you know immediately. They said once it happens it will need from one hour to 24 hours to propagate.
Thanks for being there!!!
Thanks for the screenshot. Next week I'll be publishing another website and I'll plug in the (public_html). Imagine that, a little thing like that. Thanks again for your time and effort!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by gwpriester
You can only have your primary website in public_html
But if your hosting package includes more, they can go in separate folders. If so publish additional sites to public_html/folder-name (Folder name indicates the name you give the folder)
So if your website is mymainsite.com and you add a new folder, cute-kittens then the URL is mymainwebsite.com/cute-kittens/
I finally got the website up and running but did it by dragging files. I would've liked to use the publishing tab in the web properties but I need some touching up on that. Not now I just wanted to conclude this thread and let you guys know that my website is live and looking ok and needs couple of touch up though. Thanks for your help!!!
I made some changes to one page. How would I add that one updated page to my existing exported website that is saved on my desktop.Quote:
Originally Posted by gwpriester
again, you simply cannot. Just Export Website to the same folder.Quote:
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acorn
Sorry but what I'm asking is how do I create two folders? One for the old and one for the updated.
File > Export website. Right-click on the white space, pick New > Folder and add a folder name then Export.Quote:
Originally Posted by again
Acorn
Got it. Thank you so very much!!!