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HTML How to Make a Website Sharing a Website Upload the Website

Posted by Suzanne Reeve
Suzanne Reeve
1,582 Points

Uploading website

Hi there. I have just registered my domain name (on namecheap.com) as well as my web server (at webhostingforstudends.com). I downloaded Cyberduck and uploaded all the files as per the video.

For some reason when I enter my domain name I still get a green Webhostingforstudents screen saying "Welcome to your new site! Web hosting for students" as well as "This is a default landing page. Please FTP into your account to upload your own files."

Am I jumping the gun here? Should I wait 24 hours? Or am I doing something wrong?

4 Answers

Matthew Mascioni
Matthew Mascioni
20,444 Points

Definitely your caching, then :) Hold shift while clicking refresh in Safari, and that should remedy the issue.

Balazs Judik
Balazs Judik
2,550 Points

Buddy, after searching for this for 4 hours all the night, you saved me with this one sentence. YOU DA REAL MVP, HONORED!

Matthew Mascioni
Matthew Mascioni
20,444 Points
Matthew Mascioni
Matthew Mascioni
20,444 Points

I haven't looked much into Web Hosting For Students (although I believe its a Treehouse Perk) Have you ensured that you set your nameservers on your domain you got at Namecheap to Web Hosting For Students' ones? If so, it may take about 24 hours for DNS to propagate, allowing everything to point properly and show up.

Suzanne Reeve
Suzanne Reeve
1,582 Points
Suzanne Reeve
Suzanne Reeve
1,582 Points

Weird. When I open it in google chrome it works, but I still get the green Webhostingforstudents welcome page on Safari.

Suzanne Reeve
Suzanne Reeve
1,582 Points
Suzanne Reeve
Suzanne Reeve
1,582 Points

Yayyy it works! Thanks :-)