Stupid question......need help badly

[jo_c_83]

Hi all

I'm new here and I really need some help urgently.

Here's the "stupid" part, I can't overwrite my index.html file. I'm designing a website for a guy who uses Linux. I'm use to Windows servers and therein lies the problem.

I'm using FileZilla to upload the files and I believe they should go into the public_html folder but I am not able to overwrite the files in there.

Can someone please give me a hand as I have to meet with the guy tomorrow morning.

Thanks for any and all help in advance.

[i92guboj]

Hi all

I'm new here and I really need some help urgently.

Here's the "stupid" part, I can't overwrite my index.html file. I'm designing a website for a guy who uses Linux. I'm use to Windows servers and therein lies the problem.

I'm using FileZilla to upload the files and I believe they should go into the public_html folder but I am not able to overwrite the files in there.

Can someone please give me a hand as I have to meet with the guy tomorrow morning.

Thanks for any and all help in advance.

How do you login into the server? ssh? ftp?

It depends on the priviledges you have over the files. If the user you use to login is not the owner of the files and the files that are on the server do not have +w (write) permissions you are out of look.

If you are in a hurry, upload the files with a different name if you can write in that directory. There's no need for it to be index.html. Just use another filename and then add that filename to the url on your web browser. It will work for showing purposes.

Tomorrow you can ask the owner of the server how to proceed about the permissions.