I Give Up - How Do You Work This cPanel Thing?

Alright, I'll start from the top. I am totally new to all this, so everyone please bear with me, I'm not great with alot of high tech talk. What I am having a problem with is just putting a page in place. What I mean by that is say, coding a page in the HTML Kit program, and wanting it to appear at my soandso.astahost.com site (no that's not really the name).

 

Anyway, what I have done is, made a folder in the public_html folder named FTVmain. Then I clicked on the folder icon to the left of the FTVmain folder then clicked on upload file. I browsed to where the file was and clicked 'upload' and it said it was successful. Someone told me to turn the indexes off in the public_html folder, so all folders there have no indexes showing. But now, when I go to soandso.astahost.com I get an error message. It reads as follows:

 

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access / on this server.

 

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

 

 

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Apache/1.3.34 Server at http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ Port 80

 

The '/' I'm assuming is what they were calling the current folder when I was in the Index Manager. But I have no idea what this error message is about or how to go about fixing it. I tried to be as specific as possible. I am getting very frustrated, I hate being a beginner at things and just feeling so stupid. If anyone can help, Please let me know!

Hi lonebyrd! Please tell me the following first:

1)Do you want your page to appear when someone accesses "ftv.astahost.com" or do you want it to appear when accessing "ftv.astahost.com/FTVmain/" ?

2) Did you name your HTML file index.html or did you name it something else?

3) Did you remove the default index.html file from public_html folder? I'm asking this coz the default Xisto page should appear when accessing ftv.astahost.com unless it has been overwritten. But that is not the case here. This might be the reason for the '403 Forbidden' error.

 

Since you put your file under FTVmain folder, you can access it by going to ftv.astahost.com/FTVmain/ and not ftv.astahost.com. If it is named index.htm or index.html then it will be picked up automatically, otherwise you'll have to specify the name of the file such as ftv.astahost.com/FTVmain/filename.html

Answers to your questions- 1. Yes, I would like people to see the page by typing ftv.astahost.com2. No, i didn't name the file index.html, I named the file ftvpg1.html3. I did delete the default index from the public_html folderI have a question. So are you saying I need to make my own index.html folder? Is that where things will automatically show up in the web page?

If you rename the ftvpg1.html to index.html I believe it will show up. If it does not, you will need to turn your index back on for that folder.

Hello lonebyrd...It's like carny gal said, when you rename the file to index.html or index.htm, it'll work with no problems whatsoever. You wouldn't even have to switch the indexing service back on.Good luck, and sorry if I didn't make it clear the first time you asked .

Answers to your questions- 1. Yes, I would like people to see the page by typing ftv.astahost.com

2. No, i didn't name the file index.html, I named the file ftvpg1.html

3. I did delete the default index from the public_html folder

 

I have a question. So are you saying I need to make my own index.html folder? Is that where things will automatically show up in the web page?

 

Well now I know what the problem is, you deleted the default index.html file and didn't replace it with your own file either thats why you are getting the '403 Forbidden' error. And the file that you put in the FTV Main folder is not named index.html so it won't show up just by accessing ftv.astahost.com/FTVmain/

To do so, rename it to index.html. And moreover, put it in the public_html folder instead of FTVmain folder if you want to access just by typing ftv.astahost.com.

And one more thing I realized, you have named the folder FTV Main and not FTVMain (there's a space in between). So to access the file where it is right now, you have to type http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

You have also made an 'index.html' folder, it is not needed. I said you need an index.html file. Just rename FTVPG1.html to index.html and put it in public_html and everything should show up fine.

Woohoo! I've struck gold. I'm not the complete nincompoop I thought I was. Thanks everyone. My mistake was making an index.html FOLDER not an index.html FILE. Now it shows my page directly when ftv.astahost.com is typed in. Not that there is much there, but at least I know how this thing works a little. Got to fiddle around a bit with the file manager while I was at it, so I got a little bit of practice in, hehe.

Now that I've got the index.html FILE straightend out, how do you get more than one page to show on a website? I'm trying to get a sign-in page on my web-site, and I made a folder under public_html called 'Login' were all the info from the login script I downloaded went. My question is, how do I get a login page to actually show up, if the only thing that shows up has to be under index.html?

Somewhere on your Index.html page, you can place a link to the log-in script by using an anchor tag. ie:

<a href="login_page_name_here.html">Log In Description Here</a>

or another way is to have the log-in script include as a portion of the index page. Inside a div, for instance. Most scripts will be written in PHP or some other scripting language, so there are things you might have to change in order to get the log-in script to be parsed correctly. The most typical way would be to modify the .htaccess file to parse all html pages as php. It is simple enough to do. Search on this Forum for ".htaccess" (including the period) and if you need additional info, post back here.