{"id":214,"date":"2017-12-06T00:20:01","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T00:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cheapdomainregistration.com\/cheap-domain\/?p=214"},"modified":"2017-12-06T00:20:01","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T00:20:01","slug":"upload-your-website-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapdomainregistration.com\/cheap-domain\/upload-your-website-files\/","title":{"rendered":"Upload your website files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can upload your website files directly through cPanel. This will publish your website live on the internet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"note\">\u00a0<strong>Note:<\/strong>\u00a0As an alternative to the cPanel File Manager, you can instead\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.secureserver.net\/help\/article\/96?prog_id=ifindhost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">upload your files with an FTP client<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Preparing your files<\/h3>\n<p><em>Uploading more than one file?<\/em>\u00a0You can save yourself a lot of time by creating a\u00a0<code>ZIP<\/code>\u00a0file on your computer with all of your website files. This is because the file manager in cPanel can only upload one file at a time.<\/p>\n<h3>Upload your files<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>In your cPanel dashboard, under\u00a0<strong>Files<\/strong>, click\u00a0<strong>File Manager<\/strong>.\n<ol type=\"a\">\n<li><em>Not in cPanel?<\/em>\u00a0Log in to your IFindHost &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cheapdomainregistration.com\/\">CheapDomainRegistration.com<\/a> account.<\/li>\n<li>Click\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cheapdomainregistration.com\/\"><strong>Web Hosting<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Next to the account you want to use, click\u00a0<strong>Manage<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>If an option window displays, select the directory you want to open, and then click\u00a0<strong>Go<\/strong>.\n<p class=\"note\">\u00a0<strong>Note:<\/strong>\u00a0cPanel uses\u00a0<code>public_html<\/code>\u00a0as the root directory of your primary domain name&#8217;s website. If you want to upload your website to the internet, this is where you should start. If you want to upload a website for a secondary or add-on domain, you should first\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.secureserver.net\/help\/article\/16187?prog_id=ifindhost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">verify your website&#8217;s root directory<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>Navigate to the directory where you want to upload the file.<\/li>\n<li>Click\u00a0<strong>Choose File<\/strong>, locate the file on your local machine, and then click\u00a0<strong>OK<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>After you upload the file you want, click\u00a0<strong>Back to&#8230;<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Repeat these steps for any other files you want to upload.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2>Next steps<\/h2>\n<p>Now that your website is uploaded, you can visit your website by navigating to your domain in your web browser.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If you used this guide to upload a\u00a0<code>ZIP<\/code>\u00a0file, you can\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.secureserver.net\/help\/article\/16312?prog_id=ifindhost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unzip that file<\/a>\u00a0with the file manager.<\/li>\n<li>If you also need to upload or import a MySQL database for your website, you can\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.secureserver.net\/help\/article\/16016?prog_id=ifindhost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">create a database<\/a>, then\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.secureserver.net\/help\/article\/6802?prog_id=ifindhost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">import that your SQL file into that database<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can upload your website files directly through cPanel. This will publish your website live on the internet. \u00a0Note:\u00a0As an alternative to the cPanel File Manager, you can instead\u00a0upload your files with an FTP client. Preparing your files Uploading more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,107],"tags":[109],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux-hosting-cpanel-help","category-managing-files","tag-you-can-upload-your-website-files-directly-through-cpanel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapdomainregistration.com\/cheap-domain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapdomainregistration.com\/cheap-domain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapdomainregistration.com\/cheap-domain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapdomainregistration.com\/cheap-domain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapdomainregistration.com\/cheap-domain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapdomainregistration.com\/cheap-domain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapdomainregistration.com\/cheap-domain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions\/215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapdomainregistration.com\/cheap-domain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapdomainregistration.com\/cheap-domain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapdomainregistration.com\/cheap-domain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}