Simple question

I have managed to install and use SmartFTP, all by myself! Great feat for a 'granny'! (don't laugh, you will be older someday!)
My question is,
When I open SmartFTP the left hand column/section lists:
www.easley.net (my web site)
pilgrim (me)
www (?? I thought this was the web page)
cache
data

thru the process of trial and error, I have discovered that I must 'upload' all my files in the 'pilgrim' part of the tree and the 'www' section of the tree also. Is this normal? Or does one only load files into one section. I cannot seem to find any online help about this.
Thanks for any info you can supply.
Carole

Nope, not normal.

Typically there will be a folder called htdocs and you (up)load your website into that. However, in order to make things a little more user-friendly, admins often hide the exact structure.

Check within your www directory to see if an htdocs exists - (you may find it is a copy of your pilgrim directory).

The process of trial and error you describe could be a result of a cache being updated and simply be a coincidence.

D

D, I didn't find a htdocs folder but found that my 'data' folder was empty, so I changed the name of that to 'htdocs' and put my uploads into that so now my tree reads

www.easley.net/pilgrim
Pilgrim
www.
cache
htdocs

things seem to be working o.k. so shall I assume this is allright? Is there a manual somewhere where I can read about how to set this up? I have done the tutorials but they seem to be very general.
thanks for your help
Carole

Hmmm

This is well off topic for SmartFTP so apologies if this offends anyone...

Every Internet host could be configured completely differently to every other. There are configuration files (which "normal" users can't see) that tell the web server where the root - the starting point - of a web site is. This is often a directory called htdocs, but there is absolutely no reason for it not to be named anything the admin feels like. (S)He could call it htdocs, FromageFrais or SlashDotBackslash. As a "normal" user however, you can't see what it's called. Most admins (but not all) hide the real path so that all you see is a '/' on which you can build whatever structure you like.

Now typically a web site is built not on the Internet but on another host machine. Once it's all working, the author uploads his/her entire site (including sub-directories). The key thing is that for normal operation there is a file called index.htm (or index.html) which is placed in the root directory. This is normally the 'home' page from which the rest of the site forks.

So, for your purposes you need to ask your host where to put the index.htm(l) file and upload the rest of your site from there.

HTH
D

D, thanks for the help, I have sent a copy of this posting to my ISP administrator and awaiting his answer.
Carole