Files & FTP articles

Files & FTP 579 How to check if the site files are on the hosting Before pointing a domain, asking for help, or concluding that “the site has disappeared”, it is worth checking one...
Files & FTP 581 FTP accounts and connecting with FileZilla FTP is handy when you have many files to move, or when you prefer working from your computer instead of the File...
Files & FTP 515 Common FTP errors: 530, timeouts and files that never show up FTP is simple until the day it will not connect. These are the errors you get, in order of how often they show up,...
Files & FTP 574 Seeing the site before the domain points here, and the Index of / listing The account is created, the files are there - and the domain still opens the old site, or opens nothing. That is...
Files & FTP 331 Setting up FileZilla from scratch: the Site Manager, field by field Creating the FTP account in cPanel and connecting for the first time is already written down in FTP accounts and...
Files & FTP 377 Uploading your website to the hosting with FileZilla The site is ready on your computer, FileZilla is connected, and now you just drag. Almost. There are three decisions...
Files & FTP 407 SFTP instead of FTP: when you can, and why it is better Three similar names, three different things, and the confusion between them fills our support queue. Worth sorting...
Files & FTP 354 Day to day in FileZilla: syncing, permissions and hidden files Connecting and dragging files takes five minutes to learn. What separates people who use FileZilla from people who...
Files & FTP 352 Web Disk: your hosting as a folder on your computer There is a way to work on your hosting files without opening any transfer program at all: mount the account as a...
Files & FTP 368 Directory indexes: what a visitor sees when there is no home page You open an address on your site and instead of a page you get a plain list of files, with names, sizes and dates....
Files & FTP 433 Where your website files go: public_html, folders and which domain uses which The short answer: what people see when they open your domain is in a folder called public_html. Anything you put...
Files & FTP 273 Uploading a whole site as a ZIP and extracting it in the File Manager The short answer: sending hundreds of files one by one is slow and full of failures. It is quicker to pack them into...
Files & FTP 274 A file that opens in the browser instead of downloading: how to force the download The short answer: the browser decides for itself what to do with a file: a PDF or an image opens in the window, a...