I'm wondering if someone might be willing to walk me through this?

I see in my database where all my files are stored in a directory called www. Now, if I were to add a new page to my site would I need to go into that www directory and click Upload File, Add Directory or Add File?

I have a page where it has a WYSIWYG editor. What I'm wanting to do is duplicate that page with the editor on it, rename it and also add a link to point to it. But I'm not sure how to do that. One other thing I want to do with this page is be able to put a PDF file on there with a button people can download it.

That comes to my second dilema, I guess I would need to add somewhere in my CMS (admin) area where I can upload the PDF file so it will show up on the site.

Any idea's for me?? Remember I'm a complete newbie. Have no idea how to write code/scripts, but do think I could copy/paste grin if someone walked me through it.

Thanks!

    I could copy/paste grin if someone walked me through it.

    That's not walking through it... that's giving code....

    Typically, the www/ folder is the root of your webpage. So if you want the file(s) accessible via browser, put it in the www/ folder.

    The button would just be a normal HTML link, and depending upon whether the user has Adobe installed to automatically open the file depends upon whether they dl it or not.

      I have instructions but I'm not clearly understanding them. Here they are:

      1. Add a new record to the database (page titled, page name, , page id-unique identifier)--In my database I have Delete, Copy, Compress, Move, Upload File, Add Directory or Add File. I'm not sure which one they mean by add "new record".
      2. Add another item in the menu to this page title. Not sure what they mean by add another item either.
      3. Create a wysiwyg editor to link it to the database.Have no idea how to "create a wysiwyg editor to link it to the database".
      4. Copy one of the "editable" pages that has the editor and update code with new page. This one confuses me because #3 above sounds like I have to "create a wysiwyg editor" and this one says to copy it, which to me says it's already there.
      5. You have to go to the page itself and point it to the new record that you created in the database, otherwise if you copy one of the other pages and load it, it will still load the contents of the original page. I don't know what they mean by go to the page itself and point it to the new record. Go to what page, the new one I create and then how do you "point it" to the new record?

        1. Add a new record to the database (page titled, page name, , page id-unique identifier)--In my database I have Delete, Copy, Compress, Move, Upload File, Add Directory or Add File. I'm not sure which one they mean by add "new record".

        Are you viewing the database, or your FTP? Because what you're showing is a webshell script for moving/updating files on the server, not information within the database. THat's normally done via phpMyAdmin for mySQL or pgMyAdmin for Postgres. Double check that....

        The rest... I'm not sure... you'd have to ask the developers or give us more info about what software you're using....

          I'm in my CPanel file management logged in the server admin area. On the left I have this:

          User Management
          User List
          Add Domain Admin
          Add End User
          Domain Management
          Domain List
          Add Domain
          Mail Management
          Email Addresses
          Add Email Address
          File Management
          File List
          My Profile
          View My Profile
          Change My Password
          My Preferences
          Auto-Logout
          Date and Time
          File Management

          On the right I can see:

          Users Domains Email Addresses Files

          View and manage server directories and files.
          Directory Properties: ******.com
          Name and path: All Files / home /           / www / *.com
          Contents of: 14 directories, 63 files, (0 shortcuts), 1 hidden files

          Last Modified: 01:26 AM 03/09/2006
          Actions: Delete | Compress | Copy | Move | Rename | Create Shortcut

          Permissions:           | |

          Ownership: User ID:           ******
          Group ID: www

          Directory Contents Last Modified Size Actions
          [..] 10:24 PM 03/02/2006

          ads 03:25 PM 02/17/2006 View | Rename

          classimages 04:40 PM 02/22/2006 View | Rename

          Then a bunch more files after those above.

            Ok, I figured out where my phpmyadmin/ database is. So over that hurdle and even (with help) learned a bit to copying an existing page by downloading the original, putting code on desktop, renaming it and uploading it to the control panel. Then adding the link to the includes folder, etc. However, I ran into a road block as the page does not show on the site. It does show up in the CMS and you can type out the url and see the page but it still reflects the page we used to copy from. In CMS when I wrote "test" on the wysiwyg editor for that page that didn't show up either. So everything up to when I wrote "test" is fine. Code is fine, placement is fine, assigned id for the page is fine. In essense I have no idea why it's not working. The programmer has no idea at this moment either. He'll have to look into it more. It's almost like I'm forgetting a simple step or something.

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