Create your new website folders
We will begin our new website by creating the folders (directories).
1. Create a new folder on your desktop and name it MYSITE.
2. Create another new folder on your desktop, name it images (all lower case).
3. Drag the image folder and drop it into the MYSITE folder.
You should now have a folder named MYSITE with the images folder inside of it. You can close the MYSITE folder, we'll come back to it later.
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Root Folder
By creating the MYSITE folder, you have established the ROOT DIRECTORY for your new website.
By establishing MYSITE as the root for the new site, it can be tested on a live server, without being accessible to the general public.
When the new site is finished, then all of the files of the current site can be deleted and replaced by copying and pasting all of the contents of MYSITE into the server root.
***Important: MYSITE will be using index.php as it's default file.
Most Unix and Linux servers are set to open it as the home page, but NT servers usually have default.htm and default.html set as the default files. If you are on an NT server, you will need to ask your server administrator to add index.php as a default file in Internet
Services Manager.
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