To get your site up so everyone can see it, you will need to upload it. To upload a file, you can either use the file manager or an FTP program. We recommend the FTP program because you can upload multiple files and it is faster.

 

To use FTP you will need an FTP client. We use Filezilla and this tutorial will use it also. Filezilla is free and it can be downloaded from Filezilla Project.

 

The first thing to do after we have Filezilla installed is add our servers to the program. To do this start up Filezilla then click the computer icon in the upper left corner.

 

You will see a screen similar to this.

 

First click on the New Site button.

 

Enter a name for this connection.

 

The next thing we need to do is enter the host name.

 

We are going to leave servertype as FTP.

 

For logon type you need to select Normal.

 

For user you need to enter your user name. This is the same name that you use to login into cPanel. Enter your password in the password field then click on the OK button.

 

To connect to the site we just entered, click on the arrow beside the computer in the upper left corner. This will drop a list of all of the sites that we have entered into Filezilla.

Click on the name that you just gave your site and this will log you into your site if you entered your username and password correctly. If you didn't then it will give you an error message, but we are going to assume that all went correctly.

 

On the left side, you will see 'local site.' This means that the file listing there is your computer. So you need to navigate to the folder where you saved your HTML files.

 

On the right side you will see 'Remote Site' and since local site was on our computer, Remote Site has to be on the server.

 

You will need to upload your site to the 'public_html' folder. So to change to that folder, double click on it.

 

There are two things that you will notice in the next page. One is that Remote Site now says /public_html/. Remote Site will always have the directory that you are currently in. The other thing that you will notice about this window is where it says "Empty Directory Listing." That simply means that there are no files in the public_html folder yet.

 

Now we still don't have any files up for our site, so let's change that. There is two ways to upload a file. One way is to simply double click on the file that you want to upload. The other way is to right click on the file and select upload from the menu that comes up.

 

Now you will notice on the right side that our file is there now. Any file that you put in the public_html folder will be available to anyone who happens by your site, so if there is sensitive information in the file do not place it in public_html.