RE: DNS Pointers Between Servers

[kaihirst]

Hi,

the reason that I am aksing this is probably because I ahve been working solidly for the past two days in my office, and out on jobs as well, so please sympathise !!!!

I understand the concept of DNS pointers where the Web Domain Name is registered to one DNS, then points the server to my domain where the files are held, but I dont get the following.

1. Where the hell should I put the local root directory for the Website??

2. How do I upload pages from my server to his server or do I need to?

3. Explain this to my in words of less than one syllablle so that a caveman with bags under his eyes the size of Texas can understand!!!

Or point me in the right direction so that I can read about this

ta very much

Kai

[nothingofvalue]

I assume that you are setting up a home web server?

If your website is being hosted on a Apache Server then you usually put all your files inside a folder named "htdocs" however sometimes installations will have a different name for the folder such as "http" or "web" or similar. If it's a windows server such as IIS then the folder will be named "wwwroot."

If you used a server installation package like XAMMP then the entire directory structure will have been created for you already. If you installed apache yourself then the root folder is whatever folder you specified in the httpconf file. If you are using IIS then the directory structure will also be setup for you, usually on your main drive (c:\) in a folder named "Inetpub."

Inside your "htdocs" folder you may create other subfolders like "images" and what not. Your "htdocs" folder is referred to as your web servers root.

If you want to exchange files with another web server then you need ftp access to the other server. This will require the ftp address, a username and a password, then you can upload files to the server or download files from the server using an ftp client (filezilla is a great free one) or you can use internet explorer although I recomment the ftp client.

If this is not a home web server, everything will still hold true, except that you will now need to use ftp to put files in your own web directory as well. Ftp info for your remote site is usually provided upon signup and also available in the control panel or similar.