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How to upload website files to a Cpanel account

How to upload website files to a Cpanel account

Having completed creating your website locally arises then need to host the website.

After purchase of domain name and hosting account, this tutorial becomes crucial

There are possibly two situations

  1. A website with no database
  2. A database driven Website

Hosting a no database website

This could be a purely HTML site or even php.

It is the simplest website to host.

There are two ways of uploading the website files to a hosting account

i.Mass Upload using File Manager

ii.FTP upload using FTP Client

 

i. Mass Upload Using File Manager.

Zip your website files – make sure you use .zip extension i.e mywebsitefiles.zip

From your browser access the hosting account that you already purchased.

http://www.yourdomain.com/cpanel

i.e after your domain url put /cpanel and load it.

Login with username and password provide from TrueHost

A successful login  takes to the Cpanel (control panel) area.

Click on the ‘File Manager’ icon

Make sure it leads you to the public_html or www directory

If it leads you to another directory like home, click on public_html or www links to go the public_html or www directory.

Click on ‘Upload’ link

Browse the location of mywebsitefiles.zip

Select mywebsitefiles.zip to start upload.

When upload is complete, click on go back to /home/username/public_html (username is your Cpanel username) link to go back to public_html or www directory

Among other folder or files in the directory there is mywebsitefiles.zip

Right click on it and select’ Extract’ option

Content of files are extracted to a mywebsitefiles folder

Double click on the mywebsitefiles folder to open it

Select all the files

Click on the button / menu link ‘Move’

Choose the correct directory to move your files to i.e /home/username/public_html

(by just removing the /mywebsitefiles from the already provided path )

Click ‘ok’/ ‘move’ to move them

Click ‘up one level’ to go to the public_html or www directory

You may delete the empty folder mywebsitefiles and mywebsitefiles.zip

You are now up and live. –congratulation

ii. FTP upload using FTP Client

Open a FTP client software like FileZilla (if already installed, download for free and install if not) from your computing device

Login with credentials provided

Host: yourdomain.com

Username: your Cpanel username

Password: your Cpanel username

Port: 21

The click Quickconnect button

It will open your hosting account on the ‘Remote Site’ panel – on the right side

Click on public_html or www folder to go to the public_html directory

On the left panel is the location of website on your computer yourwebsitefiles

Make sure on the left panel you can see your website files and folders

Use Ctrl+A or otherwise to select all your website files,

Right click on them and choose the option ‘upload’

Upload of files start, if it times out choose an option Resume to upload files in the queue incrementally

When you see directory listing successful – disconnected from the server.

Bingo!  You are up and live – congratulation

Hosting a database Driven Website

Hosting a data base driven website on a Cpanel hosting as offered by Truehost is simple.

They only difference between hosting a non-database driven website and website driven website is that a database driven website require database set up and upload.

Setting up database for a website, during web hosting

Login to your Cpanel using credentials provided by Truehost Kenya.

Basically mean clicking on the Cpanel url http://www.yourdomain.com/cpanel or http://www.serveripaddress/~yourusername/cpanel

Input your username

Input your password

Login.

On successful login, proceed to click mysql databases icon in the Cpanel

Creating a database

Under create database

Give your database a name

Click create database

Database name will therefore be your username_newnameyouhavegiven

Adding User to a new database

Online databases do not use the root user as default on localhost (local development phpmyadmin)

Under add new user

Indicate username

Username should have fewer than 7 characters

Input a desired database password

I recommend to use password creator to have a strong password.

At this point make sure you have saved your database name, your database username and your database password in a text file for use in your website.

Adding user to your database

Under Add a User to a Database

Selected the user you have created

Select your database

Click Add to add

It prompts you for roles to issue you database user

You may select all

Then presses add to finalize.

Uploading Database

Make sure you have exported your database from your localhost (local development environment) to a .sql file or .zip file if you are dealing with large database.

From your Cpanel Home

Click on phpmyAdmin icon

It will open in a new tab

Choose the database created earlier from the left side panel

Click on the database

Click on import option

Browse the location of your exported database

Select database file to import

On Successful import – you will have uploaded your database

Upload the files in the normal way as illustrated in the upload of non-database driven website tutorial

Ensure database connection or config files of your website reflect the new database name, new database user, new database password

Server should remain localhost unless advised otherwise by Truehost team.

 

Bingo – u r live now.

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