Understanding the site on the remote server via FTP

[AP_running]

hi all

in a bit of a pickle, and trying to understand the site structure on the remote server (hosted by Corpex) to help myself out

new to this, apologies if daft questions - been hunting around the forum for clues but no avail, pointers in the right direction most welcome

Q1: I have FTP access - but I only seem able to see files that start in Uppercase... I know lowercase files are there, as the site is live (got uploading issues, but the live site is working) and images (for example) have lowercase file names - but I cant see them on the FTP program (using WinSCP). Am I missing something..?

Q2: Site structure on the server looks like this:
/root
/access-logs
/ logs
/ mail
/ public_html
/ secure
/ ssl
/ tmp

are the secure and public_html duplicates of each other? They seem identical, both containing folders acatalog, cgi, cgi-bin, ecom.

thanks for your time
AP

https://secure.advanceperformance.co.uk/acatalog/

[Steve G Griggs]

Corpex server folder structure

are the secure and public_html duplicates of each other? They seem identical, both containing folders acatalog, cgi, cgi-bin, ecom.

I think that's a question you would have to ask your hosting company. It may well be a duplicate that the server adds automatically for some reason.
Public_html is where all the web pages/documents/scripts go that a visitor to your site will see (sometimes with an automatically generated copy in a www folder), secure sounds to me like a folder with restricted (maybe password limited) access.
Not familiar with your web host so I can't offer more I'm afraid.

[pinbrook]

The usual set up for SSL is only to jump to SSL on the checkout pages, thus the urls would be


http://www.advanceperformance.co.uk/ for product pages and

https://www.advanceperformance.co.uk/ for checkout.

i wonder why you have created an extra subfolder called secure?

[AP_running]

thanks for the responses, much appreciated - building up a list of things to find out once current upload-glitch-nightmare resolved!

Jo - that's a v useful observation - will try and find more out (I took over the maintenance of this site, so don't know how/why things were originally set-up) - I will try and learn some more about how much of the server file structure actinic prescribes / the web host dictates / we chose to get my head round it further

thanks again for the input