Head First HTML with CSS

Q: Wait a sec, what’s the “root
folder” again?
A: Up until now the root folder has
just been the top-level folder for your
pages. On the Web server, the root folder
becomes even more important because
anything inside the root folder is going to
be accessible on the Web.
Q: My hosting company seems to
have called my root folder
“mydomain_com”. Is that a problem?
Getting your files to the root folder
starbuzz
there are no
Dumb Questions
A: Not at all. Hosting companies call
root folders lots of different things. The
important thing is that you know where
your root folder is located on the server,
and that you can copy your files to it (we’ll
get to that in a sec).
Q: So let me make sure I
understand. We’ve been putting all our
pages for the site in one folder, which
we call the root folder. Now we’re going
to copy all that over to the server’s root
folder?
You’re now one step away from getting Starbuzz Coffee on the Web:
you’ve identified the root folder on your hosting company’s server
and all you need to do is copy your pages over to that folder. But
how do you transfer files to a Web server? There are a variety of
ways, but most hosting companies support a method of file transfer
called FTP, which stands for File Transfer Protocol. You’ll find a
number of applications out there that will allow you to transfer your
files via FTP; we’ll take a look at how that works on the next page.
Here’s the root folder
on the server.
www.starbuzzcoffee.com
.
.
.
index.html
.
.
.
mission.html
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A: Exactly. You’re going to take all
the pages on your own computer, and put
them all inside your site’s root folder on the
hosting company server.
Q: What about subfolders, like the
“images” folder. Do I copy those too?
A: Yes, you’re basically going to
replicate all the pages, files, and folders
in your own root folder onto the server. So
if you’ve got an “images” folder on your
computer, you’ll have one on the server
too.
The files are sitting
on your computer.
starbuzz
index.html
mission.html
You need to transfer them
to the server, and then
they’ll be “live” on the Web.
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