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To upload a website using File Director:

  1. Go to Websites & Domains > domain name > File Managing director.

  2. Click the image upload button push button and then practice the following:

    • To upload a unmarried file, click Upload File, locate, and so select the file you desire to upload.

    • To upload a single file, multiple files, or a directory with the files therein, click Upload Directory then drag files or directories to the dashed line box.

    • To upload a file not from your computer but from some other website or FTP server, click Import file via URL, specify the the URL of the file, and then click Import. For example, the URL tin can exist https://example.com/image.png or ftps://user:password@example.com/example.tar .

      Annotation: File Manager supports the post-obit protocols for file import: HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and FTPS. Depending on the protocol, the user name and password in the URL path can be either optional or mandatory.

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    Yous take uploaded the file. If it was an archive, you have two more steps left.

  3. Click the row corresponding to the archive and and then click Extract Files. If the directory contains files whose names match those packed in the archive, select the "Replace existing files" checkbox. The unpacked files will then supercede those in the directory.

  4. Click OK.

    Note: File Director can extract files from the following archive formats: Zip, RAR, TAR, TGZ, and TAR.GZ.

Editing Files in File Manager

By default, you lot can edit pages of your website in File Manager using:

  • HTML editor, a WYSIWYG editor, which automatically adds the necessary HTML tags. You can use this editor if y'all are non familiar with HTML.
  • Code editor, which opens HTML files as text files and highlights HTML syntax. Best suited for those who want to add HTML tags manually.
  • Text editor, which opens HTML files as plain text.

If your Plesk ambassador installed the Rich Editor extension, you lot can also use it to edit HTML files in File Managing director. Rich Editor is a WYSIWYG editor like Code Editor merely with more features (for example, built-in spellchecker).

To edit a file in File Director:

  1. Hover over the file. The corresponding line volition get highlighted.
  2. Click to open the file's context menu.
  3. Click Edit in … Editor (the button proper noun depends on the editor you want to utilize).

Searching for Files in File Manager

In File Director, yous tin search for files by searching for a text in filename just, content only, or both. To cull how to search for files, click the image icon icon next to the search field and so click the desired search blazon.