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Reputation:

public_html folder invisible

I have a website which I copied to this location. The public_html folder was also uploaded with the other folders but it is not showing up. Please guide me. Thanks.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3644

Answers (8)

Gonçalo Sousa
Gonçalo Sousa

Reputation: 1

I tried some of this options above but unfortunately none worked. Instead I discovered that in CPanel you have a "Preferences" tab and in that tab you have a "User Manager" function. You can there edit the ftp user that you created before in CPanel. On the "User Manager" funcion you can find the "Home Directory" configuration. On that home directory you just choose the "public_html". When you configure the user in the ftp account on your ftp platform, it goes directly to the path you defined in CPanel.

Upvotes: 0

vivex
vivex

Reputation: 2515

As you are using DreamHost web hosting you wont have any control over ssh and chmod , chown commands. I think dreamhost wont use cPanel for shared hosting, they have their own control panel, so there is nothing you can do, Ask dreamHost support to reinitialize your public_html directory. Surely they will do that. I searched on dreamhost forum and found these link-

https://discussion.dreamhost.com/thread-13646-post-13647.html#pid13647

https://discussion.dreamhost.com/thread-128630.html

Currently in your case i saw that there is no issue related to public_html (technically "Document Root" ) directory coz as your http://www.inspuratesystems.com/second/ is pointing to correct directory , and your documentRoot is parent of that directory, So if your documentRoot was wrong then there were no chance to access that that url, currently your domain is opening a correct index.html file which indicates that your documentRoot is there.

Create a index.html or home.html file there manually (from their web based file manager) and see if it is working or not, if it works then there is some issue with your uploading.

Upvotes: 6

Abhishek
Abhishek

Reputation: 7045

Did you checked if the folder is hidden attribute?

If you execute ls -a in terminal, you will know about it's existence. If it is present then please try giving it read & execute permission (using chmod 555 command). Give write permission if you are planning to write something or take feedback from users (using chmod 777).

Upvotes: 0

qbush
qbush

Reputation: 720

If you are using a linux or OS X server, you may need to change the permissions on the folder.

Upvotes: 0

jrjensen
jrjensen

Reputation: 191

cpanel may handle the "public_html" folder in a unique way. Try uploading to a folder like: /home/yourusername/public_html/second/files/ instead of /home/yourusername/public_html/second/public_html/

If you are wanting to create a new distinct website at inspuratesystems.com/second/ you don't need a second "public_html" folder. Just put them in the /home/yourusername/public_html/second directory.

Upvotes: 0

Frido Emans
Frido Emans

Reputation: 5578

Your hosting provider seems to be dreamhost.com

Please check out this thread, according to which public_html seems to be a special case on dreamhost: https://discussion.dreamhost.com/thread-144453.html

and/or this: Getting a 'Not Found' error on my website?

Hope it helps!

Upvotes: 4

Hannes Karppila
Hannes Karppila

Reputation: 988

Perhaps it's possible that server (apache?) hides folders named public_html? Also check that group others have read and execute permissions for that folder.

In folder /path/to/second/ run

chmod ugo+rx .
chmod -R ugo+rx public_html

to set folder visible.

Upvotes: 1

beiller
beiller

Reputation: 3135

Make sure that the public_html folder has execute permissions

chmod a+x public_html

That will allow execute permissions for everybody.

Upvotes: 1

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