Help Uploading Website PHP Files - New User

[whit27]

Hi Guys,
I am new to this and I had someone create a website for me and they delivered a zip file to me that has 2 folders in it

Folders
1. _MACOSX
2. HIGHLITE (this is the name of the Site)

Inside these folders is acouple other folders and a bunch of PHP files.
How do I upload this to the server? I had editted the index.html file to have the proper website info while we had something created. But I thought he would have given us HTML files so I am not sure what to do.
He hold us to upload everything into the PUBLICHTML folder on the server. But Not sure how to get FTP access to upload and doing this thru the file manager is not easy.
Any help would be greatly helpful.

Whit

 

[nobaloney]

Only the developer of the site, and your hosting provider, can give you the information you need.

If your developer told you to upload everything into the public_html folder then you can do that through ftp, but only your hosting provider can give you the information you need to do that.

Jeff

 

[AndyII]

If you want them directly in the public_html folder you can make sure that the files in HIGHLITE are Not in yet another folder, and ARE the exact structure of the website..... if so extract them to your PC, go into the folder, select all and add to a zip archive (winzip, or better yet. 7 zip and its free)
log into your account, go to File Manager , click on the Public_html folder icon, at the bottom in the bar you will see 'Upload to Current Directory', click that, you will have a screen with a few buttons on it called "Browse for file" click that and locate the zip file you have or have created, once you have selected the file click, "Upload Files, now return to the Public_html folder and locate that zip you just uploaded, you will see in the Action column the word ' Extract", if all went well you will have those files now in the public folder.
OR
you can use a ftp client ( also free) to upload the files to that folder one at a time

being a web designer (lol) the name of the folder makes me a bit curious so be sure that folder is all the files you need for a website and NOT a theme for a script such as WordPress

the _MACOSX is common and for use if your using a Mac PC

Plus "most" php sites are database driven, otherwise they could have just created the site all in html

if I wasnt too clear dont be afraid to ask