Domain Question

I uploaded a website through smartftp and it is not displaying. I had transferred previous domains from other places (like godaddy) and used the same method with some results.. but for some reason it is like dreamhost servers need to be added a different way. Can someone please help? Excuse the rookie question

--merz

It's hard to know for sure, as you didn't post a url for us to check, but it *sounds* as though you may have uploaded the files to the wrong directory.

At Dreamhost, the directory to your user space is home/yourusername , and *that* is the directory into which you are placed when you first connect via ftp. Within *this* directory, should be a directory name yourdomain.tld. It is into this yourdomain.tld directory that you should place your files so they are accessible from the web.

If you inadvertently placed you files in the /home/yourusername directory, you will *not* see the files on your site.

--rlparker

thanks for your reply.

sorry about not posting the address its www.islamicchaplaincy.com

the current pathway I have right now is mydreamhostservername/MyUsername/islamicchaplaincy.com

I have folders in there...as for the .tk information, I dont fully understand what you mean about it.. can you clarify?

I appreciate the help so far

Thanks for providing the domain name (it helps). From my computer, that domain name does not yet resolve via DNS. If you created it , or changed the nameservers for it, recently, don't forget that it can take from a several minutes up to three days for the DNS updates to be completed around the internet.

It is *not* that your domain is not showing the files as much as it is that your domain is not yet reachable via a browser due to DNS updating.

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..as for the .tk information, I dont fully understand what you mean about it.. can you clarify?

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Not really...I don't know anything about that either . If you mean to type ".tld" than I can clarify: .tld is just used to indicate "Top Level Domain", as in .com, .net, .org, etc.. It is ususally used in conjuction with "youdomainname" (yourdomainname.tld) to indicate a domain of the form "whatever your domain name is, followed by a "dot", followed by whatever Top Level Domain your domain name uses" .

--rlparker