I work at a web design company and since we publish a lot of websites, our ISP has set up a new server for us with Plesk installed, so that we can manage these sites ourselves. Now, I've read a bit of the manual and tried to publish a customers' website but it's not going very well.
We will be managing everything on our customers' behalf, unless they request otherwise, so where do I begin? Let's say I just created a new website for a customer and I want to publish it on "foo.se". I started by adding a domain and when I connect via ftp with the login and password I entered under "Physical hosting setup", I see a whole bunch of folders:
This is a little confusing since I expected to be presented with an empty folder where I could upload the customers' website. Do I have to create a new "web user" for that purpose? How does this work?
We will be managing everything on our customers' behalf, unless they request otherwise, so where do I begin? Let's say I just created a new website for a customer and I want to publish it on "foo.se". I started by adding a domain and when I connect via ftp with the login and password I entered under "Physical hosting setup", I see a whole bunch of folders:
- anon_ftp
- bin
- cgi-bin
- conf
- error_docs
- httpdocs
- ...
This is a little confusing since I expected to be presented with an empty folder where I could upload the customers' website. Do I have to create a new "web user" for that purpose? How does this work?