Webpage neophyte needs help with my 1and1 site

[Slogun]

Computers are not my field, but I've mastered most everything I need in computing except website management.

So I got in on the free 500MB webspace deal a while back and have been stymied so far on managing the space.

I've done ok with my geocities wysiwyg webspace but my space is limited there.

So far, I have managed to upload about 200MB of files to my 1and1 site via SSH.
I've also enabled FTP, but don't know how to use that so far.

I could use some help in how to go about making those files accessible for download from the site.

Any assistance would be appreciated.

 

[minendo]

What's the url?

 

[sillymofo]

upload via FTP, link to file. URL is usually something like this:

www.yourdomain.com/foldersthatyouuploadedfileto/file.extension

 

[Slogun]

Thx for the reply:

http://s87006000.onlinehome.us

linked

 

[sillymofo]

There's nothing in your 11301.html?

 

[AFB]

Give the folder they are in and a file name.

 

[Slogun]

I have a folder named homebasefiles

I don't recall off hand the name of any files in there, except one is a setup.exe.

 

[Ness]

It's much similar to managing files on windows. The URL you gave could be considered like your hard drive, and to get to the files you have to navigate to them. The only difference is that instead of being able to click an icon, you have to type the names of the folders in the address bar in your web browser...

Does that help at all?

For instance, if on your c drive you had a folder called "stuff" with a file called "file.txt", you could click on the C drive, then stuff, then file.txt.
To get to the file on the web server,
you'd have to type in your URL: (http://s87006000.onlinehome.us) ,
followed by the folder name (http://s87006000.onlinehome.us/stuff/)
followed by the file name (http://s87006000.onlinehome.us/stuff/file.txt)

Some webservers allow you to just go to the directory, then browse the files in the directory. You could just get to that second part and see all the files in the folder "stuff".

 

[AFB]

It would help greatly if you could FTP in to it and give us the file structure. I have tried "http://s87006000.onlinehome.us/setup.exe" & "http://s87006000.onlinehome.us/homebasefiles/setup.exe" with no luck. Can you tell us where your main pages are and the relative location of your files ?

 

[mikepeck]

1and1 turns off directory listings by default. If you create a text file and save it .htaccess with the following line:

Options +Indexes

Then upload that file to your homebasefiles directory.

Now, if you browse to http://s87006000.onlinehome.us/homebasefiles/ you will see a list of files under that directory. Piece o' pie.

 

[Slogun]

Thx for all the replies. I'll get a chance to look at some of these things tonight after work.

 

[Slogun]

I did get it working, used the .htaccess trick. Now, how does anybody know that?

Thanks to everyone for your input.

You can check my success HERE

 

[mikepeck]

Nice work! Now put that free service to use!