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HTML How to Make a Website Sharing a Website Upload the Website

Isaac Asante
Isaac Asante
4,752 Points
Posted by Isaac Asante
Isaac Asante
4,752 Points

Difference between Public_HTML folder on web server and WWW. folder?

Hey, I noticed that in the Upload the Website video, Nick uploads the website's files in the WWW folder through CyberDuck, in which he deleted the cgi-bin folder. He did not placed the files in the public_html folder that was in the root folder.

I guess this is only because he wants the eventual website to have "www," as the subdomain, right? Just puzzled...

1 Answer

John Breiner
John Breiner
6,918 Points
John Breiner
John Breiner
6,918 Points

Ok, some servers have it set up so that www points to www.yoursite.com and public_html just to yoursite.com. That's not usually the case though. Usually one of them is just an alias for the other and it doesn't matter which one you use.