FTP the first time I used it was pretty intimidating and it was mainly because of the different folders inside the hosting account. I didn’t want to screw things up as things were foreign to me.

One thing I was asking myself was “Where on earth do I paste my files with all this folders around?”

The answer: Inside the public_html folder or www folder.

Locating public_html folder:

1 – Open up FileZilla
2 – On the upper area, you will see several fields where for your hosting account (e.g. Hostgator):

Input your:

a. Host – its usually ftp.yourwebsitename.com

b. Username – your username when you opened the hosting account

c. Password – the password when you opened your hosting account

d Port – put 21 or leave it blank

Hit “Quickconnect”, and it should start connecting to your account.

You should then see something similar below:

What folder you should paste files into?

It’s the public_html folder (or www folder, but I use public_html).

I don’t even know what the other folders mean.

Inside the public_html folder

When you open the public_html folder you should see other folders. If you have other domain names on your hosting account, then a folder under the domain name should also appear.

So if you registered www.mygreatdomainname.com then there should be a folder name mygreatdomainname inside your public_html folder and that is where you paste your files.

So if you pasted a html file called mywebpage.html then the url address would be http://mygreatdomainname.com/mywebpage.html

If you pasted the html file within a folder inside your domain folder, then the url address would be

http://mygreatdomainname.com/foldername/mywebpage.html.

That’s it.

You don’t need to be intimidated with the other folders, really.

Paste your files inside your domain folders via public_html.