Im stuck with FTPs

[Finnley 565]

So I am doing an assignment for school and I am stuck. Basically my last assignment was: build a website. I have done that, but now I have to actually host the website.

 

What I was told to do is run an Ubuntu server using a virtual machine. Done that.

Then install a FTP server on your computer and on the virtual machine. Got them both running.

Now what? By the way I am a rookie in programming, especially in website hosting etc. How do I get my HTML and CSS files running on the Ubuntu server and where does the FTP come in? I assume I have to use the FTP servers to get the files to my Ubuntu server, but I am not sure...

Can anyone help me make the next step?

[Lurker 1]

Use a ftp client like filezila to set those files or you can do it in raw format from the terminal and filetransfer/script.

[Gunstar 513]

I am assuming you have to use FTP to transfer your files into the server. You put your html and css files in a folder in that server and then you open the website html file from a web browser. Poke me if you see me on Teamspeak and I will help you with it. I have done it before although the server was already set up for us and all we did was connect to the server and put our website files in there.

[Finnley 565]

Alright, thanks for the offer Gunstar, however I figured something out... I now know how to use Filezilla properly and I somehow got permission, but now my website looks like this: 

Please don't say I have to rename the home to index.html, because that would mean I have to edit every html file as they have a picture that sends them back to home.html

How do I set the default page?

[ColdMeekly<3 16]

Nice and easy fix to start on "home.html"

Go ahead and locate your htaccess file, or create it if you don't have one.

and paste this inside the file:

DirectoryIndex home.html

 

[Gunstar 513]

If anyone was wondering, what I suggested to Finn was this:

Make a index.php file with the following code:

<?php
    header('Location: home.html');
?>

and it worked for him. 

[ColdMeekly<3 16]

+1 to Gunstar for helping out :3