Upload your website files with File Manager

In the Meridian interface (current)

1. 01

   Open cPanel

   In “My services”, click “Web Hosting”, then “Manage” for the hosting account in question, and finally “Open cPanel”.

2. 02

   Open File Manager

   In the left sidebar, click “Files”, then the “File Manager” tab. It opens on your home directory (/home/your-username): double-click public_html. Another way in: “Websites & Apps”, “Manage” on your domain's row, the “Files” tab, then “Open File Manager”.

   
3. 03

   Prepare a .zip archive

   On your computer, compress the contents of your site folder (not the folder itself) into a single .zip file: one upload is much faster than hundreds of small files, and File Manager does not accept uploading a whole folder.

4. 04

   Upload the archive

   Still in public_html, click “Upload” in the toolbar. In the “Upload Files” window, drop your .zip or click to choose it, tick “Overwrite existing files” if you are replacing an older version, then click “Upload”. Wait for the upload to finish.

   
5. 05

   Extract the archive

   Tick the .zip and click “Extract”: its contents are unpacked into public_html. Check that your home page, index.html or index.php, sits directly in public_html, then tick the now useless .zip and click “Delete”: it goes to the “Trash”.

   
6. 06

   Test your site

   Open https://yourdomain.com in a private browsing window. The temporary holding page disappears on its own as soon as an index.html or index.php is in public_html: you have nothing to delete to remove it.

In the previous interface (Jupiter)

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If it doesn't work

• The site only appears at yourdomain.com/my-site/: the archive contained a folder. Open it, tick all its contents, click “Move” and enter the public_html folder as the destination.
• The holding page still shows: the home page is not directly in public_html (see the previous point), or its name has a capital letter (Index.html is not recognised). Also test in a private window to rule out the browser cache.
• An old page shows instead of your PHP site: the server serves index.html before index.php. Delete the old index.html left by your previous version.
• The upload fails or stops: check the available disk space (it depends on your plan) and try again with a lighter archive, or upload the site in several archives. Deleted files stay in the trash (~/.trash) and count towards your space: on the “Files” page, “View Trash” then “Empty Trash” frees that space, permanently.