Tech: Anybody know GoDaddy Website structure?

Subject: Tech: Anybody know GoDaddy Website structure?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 01 Oct 21 - 07:25 PM

I'm supposed to update a GoDaddy Website, and I'm not familiare with their Website structure.
On my own Website on Network Solutions, all of my Website is in a folder/directory called "htdocs"

On the GoDaddy Website, the folders are:

etc
logs
mail
public_ftp
public_html
ssl
rmp
access-logs
www

http://www.auburncohousing.com/

I downloaded that home page, and when I saved it, it had the title Auburn Cohousing – Getting-It-Built!.html

I suspect that the domain name does not lead to the GoDaddy web hosting package I was given access to, but I can't determine where the Website is located and the person I'm dealing with doesn't have any understanding of it.

But I'll be damned if I can find that page in any of the folders in the GoDaddy File Manager.

Can anybody lead me straight?

-Joe-

Subject: RE: Tech: Anybody know GoDaddy Website structure?
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 01 Oct 21 - 08:27 PM

I'm not with GoDaddy but that looks the same as the CPanel on mine. My web pages are in the public_html folder.

Subject: RE: Tech: Anybody know GoDaddy Website structure?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 01 Oct 21 - 08:56 PM

Thank you very much, Jon! That did the trick. GoDaddy also uses cPanel.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: Tech: Anybody know GoDaddy Website structure?
From: DaveRo
Date: 02 Oct 21 - 04:28 AM

The webserver is Apache. It normally uses htdocs (www/htdocs) if you have the server to yourself. It has a 'per-user directories' feature for sharing the server between users, in which case it normally uses public_html (home/username/public_html) instead.

But it depends on the configuration of the server.

Subject: RE: Tech: Anybody know GoDaddy Website structure?
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 02 Oct 21 - 10:16 AM

... Apache does have the UserDir directive which I think would translate a system username in a URL into a home directory, eg. on Linux, http://www.jonbanjo.com/jon into /home/jon/<htdocs directory>

But as you indicate, apache offers a number of options and doesn't dictate the organisation which varies. I think a default OpenSuse installation puts things under /srv.

On shared hosting, I'd guess it usually depends on how the hosting system (cPanel, Plesk, VirtualMin, etc.) likes to configure things.