URGENT site wont upload to new domain through ftp
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Can someone please help me.urgently. I have created a c5 websiteWww.wastestar.com.au/June/concrete5.6.3.1 and wish to replace the current site with this website.however everytime I try to upload through ftp it just comes up with errors.can anyone reccommend or have a look through files for me and tell me what I'm doing wrong. I have had a web designer (html) look at it and he can't get it working either and he know the proper ftp uploan process. Someone please help help asapthanks
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Also, before you upload the new C5 website, I recommend that you save your current site by going up one folder, to the folder that your current website's folder is in, and rename your website's folder by appending something like .old, "OldSiteFolderName.old", so you won't write over it. Then, create a new folder with the same site's folder name to put your new C5 website in. (Remember permissions.) This is just in case you need to restore it. Restoring back to the old would just take renaming the new site by attaching ".new" to the folder name and removing the ".old" from the old site's name.
Also, before you upload the new C5 website, I recommend that you save your current site by going up one folder, to the folder that your current website's folder is in, and rename your website's folder by appending something like .old, "OldSiteFolderName.old", so you won't write over it. Then, create a new folder with the same site's folder name to put your new C5 website in. (Remember permissions.) This is just in case you need to restore it. Restoring back to the old would just take renaming the new site by attaching ".new" to the folder name and removing the ".old" from the old site's name.
So you want to take that site and move it to the root?
I can do that for you. Ill send a private message.
I can do that for you. Ill send a private message.
I hit this all the time. It's usually the remote file system's permissions that won't let you write to that part of the file system. The area of the File System that holds the web pages are usually set with write permission only for the user name that the Web Server is running under and all others only have read and execute permissions. When you log in to the remote server as an FTP user, your user name doesn't have permission to write into the file system at that point.
You need to have permissions for your FTP user name to write in the folder that you are trying to repopulate with the Concrete5 subfolders. If you have root access with ssh to the remote server, this is easy to fix yourself. Just SSH into the server, change directory to the folder that you want to place the new C5 website, and change, with recursion, the permissions of the folder you are in to allow everyone to write to this folder. In Linux and I think Mac also, this command would be "chmod -Rf 777 ./". DO NOT change the owner of the file system or you lock out your Web Server. after you FTPed your new C5 Site to the server, fix the permissions back to what they need to be. Remember, some C5 paths need to be writable by C5 or C5 can't function.
If you are using a Virtual Hosting Service, contact your provider and let them know that you need to upload a new website to your file name space and they should help you with this.