Serious FTP problems
Hi,
I've been asked to use ftp to upload files to our web server. I thought this fine until, I tried to actually view the damn pages. I had uploaded them without any problems. But know I want other people to be able to see these pages via a http server, and not an ftp server.
How do I go about doing this?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
mairving posted this at 22:10 — 27th August 2001.
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Haseeb, welcome to Webmaster-Forums!
I am not quite sure that I understand your question. What I think that you are trying to say is that you have uploaded files via ftp. When you try to bring that site up, it only brings up a listing of files in that directory, kind of looks like a ftp site.
If that is the case then you are probably missing an index file. When you have a site called sitename.com, if someone types in http://www.sitename.com in their browser, it points it to that site. Most of the time there is a file called index.htm, index.html, index.cgi, index.php in that directory. If there is no index file in your directory, it can show a listing of files in your directory. To fix it, you will have to have an index page in your directory like index.html.
Hope this helps.
Mark Irving
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Haseeb Ali posted this at 10:14 — 28th August 2001.
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Thanks for your reply.
I have a page called index.html on the ftp server, but it still doesn't poin to it.
What should I do?
mairving posted this at 12:16 — 28th August 2001.
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What kind of web server and Operating System is it?
Haseeb Ali posted this at 13:03 — 28th August 2001.
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The domain is a full IIS Virtual Server running on Windows 2000.
mairving posted this at 18:54 — 28th August 2001.
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I have no idea on IIs setup.
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