Organizing my files...........

[Penny Moon]

Hello Reuben,
It's me again. I am trying to organize my file manager. Hehehe...I got tired of everything being willy-nilly in my manager. It's very confusing and extremely annoying as you probably already know. This will probably sound like an extremely dumb question, but remember I'm still a newbie. Here goes......When I am creating new folders(for organizing my graphics,midis,pages,etc.,etc., do I make them in the main directory or in the public html directory? The reason I'm asking is because I tried to make the folders in the main directory,the one we enter after clicking the file manager icon, but the link didn't work. I thought I knew what I was doing....again! I put all the files into the correct folder and the links were correct I believe- an example-http://pennymoon.net/parents/FSOwen.html-
parent being the name of the folder for memorial files of parents.
This link should have called up the memorial page for this person. Instead I got an error page.
Was my mistake putting the folder in the first directory? I would like to find out the correct directory before I spend the time creating folders in the public-html directory.
Thanks for any help you can give me.

Penny

[bolsterboy]

all the files which you want shown should go into your public_html directory. This is the MAIN directory even thought it isn't the one that shows up first. If you have everything already uploaded just do FTP and move the files into the public_html directory.

Hope this helps :)

[Penny Moon]

Thanks bolsterboy, your input is appreciated.
I suspected that public_html was the actual main directory, but I wanted to verify that fact before doing anything further.
Thanks again,
Penny

[bolsterboy]

that's okay :)

[Penny Moon]

Ummmmmm...
I have another question.....
Should the link be:
http://pennymoon.net/public_html/parents/FSOwen.html
or
http://pennymoon.net/parents/FSOwen.html ?

I tried using the second link and it doesn't seem to work.

Thanks,
Penny

[BbBoy]

The second one should be correct, if it's in the public_html/parents directory. :) If you go just to http://pennymoon.net/parents/ , then you see that you haven't put any files at all in the /public_html/parents folder. :)

[Penny Moon]

Thanks again bolsterboy. Everything is working fine now. I appreciate your help. That's what I like about this service, everyone is so helpful and nice.
Thank again,
Penny

[BbBoy]

Hehehe, there's a "boy" in my name, but no "bolster"!!! ;) :)

[Penny Moon]

Ooooooops.......
Sorry Bbboy- That's what happens when you don't read the whole post and/or assume things eh? LOL. I still appreciated your help.

Thanks Bbboy.
Penny

[bolsterboy]

hehe there's nothing wrong with "bolster" lol ;)

[dimx]

/home/your_username/ is your 'home directory' - no one can access this except you and the server administrator. This is where you can upload private files and even your cgi and php scripts.

All your files that are 'live' - visible on the web are in your public_html and public_ftp directories.

domain.com points to /home/username/public_html/ - so any directory you create in that path, will act like this:

/home/username/public_html/mydirectory/
domain.com/mydirectory.

Hope that helps some newbies!