Please Help: Path to publishing my site

**2x10** · 02 April 2009, 03:11 PM

I had my page working fine, then I try to embed a video and it threw the program out of whack. I uninstalled program and then reinstalled. I had to set up the website properties again.

I save the file as "index" as a web file. When I export and preview the site is perfect and all buttons etc work fine. When I publish the site, it goes thru the routine and completes.

It does not update to the current website though???

Please help me! I am new to this and I am having issues with troubleshooting

thanks,

Joe

**gbpatriot** · 02 April 2009, 04:04 PM

I had a similar experience. Eventually I figured out that XWD's FTP programme was publishing the website to the 'wrong 'folder on my ISP server.
To check out my suspicions I downloaded a trial version of CoffeeCup's FTP application which enabled me to see what was going on.
It seems that I needed to publish my site into a folder called 'hdocs', but XWD was uploading to the site root directory. Of course your ISP may be set up differently.
Since then I now use a full copy of Coffeecup's FTP app to publish directly from my local site folder.
Hope this helps.

Ray

**Soquili** · 02 April 2009, 04:20 PM

Different web hosts setup ftp access as they need it to work.

Check with your host to find out if you need to specify a subfolder.

**2x10** · 02 April 2009, 04:44 PM

I think I do need a sub folder, but I don't know what to put in there! Their was original guy that helped me set this up and he is unavailable to assist.

West host gave me an HTML directory of /var/www/html but I tried that and it came up unknown directory

thanks again BILL!

Joe

**ss-kalm** · 02 April 2009, 07:46 PM

Originally Posted by gbpatriot

......XWD's FTP programme was publishing the website to the 'wrong 'folder on my ISP server........

XWD only publishes to where it's told to publish. There is no error in the program, only an error in the user configuration.

**Egg Bramhill** · 02 April 2009, 08:17 PM

Joe,

If you're wanting to replace a previous web site you can find a clue to the directory path from the address bar of the current site. eg:

http://www.yoursite.com/fun/birthday/index.htm

So yours might look like:

http://www.yoursite.com/html/index.htm

I suggest you try "html" as the path to your subfolder in the Web Properties/Publish settings. (or "www/html" or "public_html/html")

**akubbeng** · 02 April 2009, 09:10 PM

Joe,

if your site is hosted by Telus the public folder normally is called just "public". Hope this helps.

**steve.ledger** · 02 April 2009, 09:23 PM

Westhost appears to be using Apache servers, so in the 'Sub-folder' section try entering: /public_html This will upload to the root directory of your hosted space.
If you need to upload to a different subfolder, enter: /public_html/foldername