million2b
09-14-2008, 11:59 PM
I usually do updates for my website through my Sitebuilder and publish it.
Instead of that, if I want to "download the file from the host and then make any changes", how do I go about doing that? I believe it is through FTP but what are the exact steps?
Thanks in advance for your help. :)
jepourlevendetta
09-15-2008, 01:06 PM
You can use a FTP connector (like CuteFTP) or a web-based file manager (almost hosting control panels have this) to download or edit your file directly from your host.
If you use FTP connector, you must have a FTP account to connect to your host and then you can download your file to your computer for editing.
If you use file manager, you can login to your web hosting CP and find out the File Manager from that.
Or you can tell me what hosting control panel you are using so I can explain the exact steps. :P
million2b
09-16-2008, 06:09 AM
Hi jepourlevendetta. Really tnks for help. I am using cPANEL.
Thanks again. :)
jepourlevendetta
09-16-2008, 12:43 PM
With cPanel, you can access your file directly via File Manager. Login to your cPanel hosting control page (http://yourdomain.com:2082 or with ssl support https://yourdomain.com:2083) and look around then you can see the File Manager and click to use it.
File Manager will take you to /home/yourusername/
and your files should be in /home/yourusername/public_html
select your file you need and click download or edit.
that's all.
Or you can use FTP.
you must have an FTP account first (if you use cPanel, your username is the default FTP account)
or you can create another FTP account to use (you can do it in cPanel page)
ok, now you have to download a FTP connector (such as CuteFTP or FlashFXP)
and connect to your host with your FTP account:
username: yourusername@yourdomain.com
password: yourpassword
and download or edit anything you want to (just like using File Manager)
million2b
09-18-2008, 12:55 AM
Hi. Tnks for the help. I tried it by the filemanager way and it works but only thing is by using the Sitebuilder, I could see how the webpage appears compared to now which is just plain html.
million2b
09-19-2008, 02:40 AM
I have a new problem doing this file downloads from host. I created new pages on Sitebuilder and saved. After which I used filemanager to locate that page and it is not there.
I believe it is due to me not publishing that page from Sitebuilder. But I want to publish from filemanager (public_html) and not sitebuilder. Anyway I can get that page to appear in filemanager(public_html)? Thanks.