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Ian-Hamilton wrote on 1/18/2023, 1:21 PM

Can anyone help???

Why does xara upload sites as htm? Need it as html to work on new hosting site.

Or am i just being thick, had no issues with the last hosting company. Upload and go.

Thanks

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johnebaker wrote on 1/18/2023, 4:57 PM

@Ian-Hamilton

. . . . Need it as html to work on new hosting site. . . . .

The default file extension for any HTML web page is .htm or .html - as defined by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

All correctly configured, to the W3C standard, web servers should not differentiate between the 2 file extensions.

Who is the new hosting with?

HTH

John EB
Forum Moderator

Ian-Hamilton wrote on 1/19/2023, 1:01 AM

Morning thanks for getting back to me.

The new host is Siteground. My friend got involved and said the uploaded files needed changing to html.

Files need to be uploaded to public_html folder. Tried and tried. Used FileZilla to upload to ensure files went into correct folder. Nothing. No site showing.

I have never had any problems like this. Always uploaded to various hosts and away I went.

Any ideas?

Ian

emmrecs wrote on 1/19/2023, 3:31 AM

@Ian-Hamilton

How long have you waited since uploading the files? Propagation of a website to the internet from a new host can take some time.

What is the URL of your site?

Jeff
Forum Moderator

Ian-Hamilton wrote on 1/19/2023, 3:41 AM

Hi. I have never had to wait. Always instant results.

My son's website: www.hamiltonplumbingservices.co.uk

Can see some stuff this morning but completely wrong and looks corrupted.

Thanks

emmrecs wrote on 1/19/2023, 6:35 AM

@Ian-Hamilton

I have never had to wait

But you have now transferred to a new host! That host is responsible for propagating your site.

However, I agree there is something seriously wrong with how that site displays!

I'm attaching below screenshots of part of the Filezilla workscreen for my own web site. The first one, the RHS of the workscreen shows the remote server window. My site has to be uploaded to "htdocs" (highlighted), yours should show "public.html".

When I click on that htdocs folder to open it I see this (clearly only a small part of mine is shown here):

Those are my actual website files.

I think yours should appear very similar.

If you would like to show a screenshot of your FZ workscreen please feel free to do so but please ensure ANY confidential data, like server name or password etc., are fully obscured!

Jeff

EDIT; to add, I have just reopened your son's website and everything now seems perfectly fine!..Clearly, I cannot be certain that the whole site is displaying properly but it certainly seems to be! If so, it would appear your host has now properly propagated the site.