The
File Manager Option within your Control Panel can
prove to be a very powerful feature. It will handle
many of the functions that an FTP or Telnet client
will handle, all from within your browser. With the
File Manager you can set permissions, upload files
from your hard drive, create and edit html files and
create subdirectories.
When you click on the File Manager feature inside your
Control Panel, you will find that the screen is
divided into three frames.
The left frame will show you your directories and
files:
The
upper right hand frame is your action frame, and the
lower right hand frame is your trash folder:
Within
each directory on the left frame, you will see links
to create a new file, create new folder, or upload
files. These actions pertain specifically to the
directory that you are currently in. You will also see
a column of numbers to the right of each folder and
file. The far right column are the current permission
settings for that specific folder or file and the
column to the left of the permissions is the actual
size of the that file or folder. When you click on the
graphic next to the text link for a folder, it will
open that folder and display the files and folders
within that folder. When you click on the actual text
link for a folder or file, actions for that directory
or file are displayed in the upper right hand corner
of your screen:
Locate your public_html folder and click on the text
link for it. You will see the actions for the folder
appear in the upper right hand corner of your screen:
Actions
are pretty self-explanatory, so we'll forgo explaining
what each do.
However, if you will locate a file rather than a
folder within your directory listing and click on the
text link of a file, you will see that the action
screen will change to the specific actions pertaining
to actual files and you will notice that the actions
that you can perform for files are quite different
from those of a folder:
By
clicking on Show File, a new window will open and show
you what the file actually looks like in your browser.
By clicking on Edit File, you will be taken to a
window where you can actually edit the html code
within the file itself and save the changes. You can
also change the permissions for the file, or copy,
move, delete, or rename.
Remember, DO NOT DELETE OR RENAME any files that
the system creates. Also, remember that any files that
you want available on the World Wide Web, must be
placed within your public_html folder.
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