Hi there I have an existing website -simply html and css files and I have now updated it in Bootstrap studio
I am using existing files as links. eg pdf or mp3
Now I want to publish this Bootstrap studio website.
Do I just delete the existing html files eg index.html then upload /publish the Bootstrap studio files?
In the case of index.html, if your new home page is named something else (eg. index-1.html) then you have to delete the old page and rename your home page to index.html because that’s the name the browser looks for by default when it loads your website. Without an index.html page, you won’t see your website’s home page when you go to your domain.
The other pages can be named whatever you want, as long as your navigation is properly setup to link to those pages. Then you can delete any old pages. Having pages with “-1” after the name is generally confusing, so it’s best to rename them to more appropriate names (eg. contact.html and not contact-1.html)
Thank you for your reply
My new pages are all named the same as the old pages
So steps would be :
- Delete all the current pages (html) files on tne sever
- Then upload the new pages ?
Both index pages named the same iindex.html
If the new pages have the same exact name as the old pages that exist on the server, you should not need to delete them. Typically, they would just be over-written when you publish your website. But you might want to save copies for your own reference.
I do not use Bootstrap Studio’s free hosting, so I’m not familiar with the program’s behavior when a file being published is overwriting an existing file of the same name. I would imagine there’d be a warning message, but I’m not sure. Someone else should be able to answer that.
I have my own hosting and I use Filezilla to upload my exported BSS files. When Filezilla encounters existing files on the server that have the same name, it will present a warning dialog, and offer a variety of choices as to how to proceed.
Hello, I use several options:
- Free BSS hosting for tests, taking care to limit the publication time in order to free up the free space automatically.
- For publications on other hosts, it is possible to configure BSS to publish directly without using Filezilla.
However, in this case there will be no confirmation message for file replacement.
This is a practical solution for presenting a project. - I use Filezilla for publishing with other hosts, just to check or delete files that are no longer needed.
That’s great advice I am using Godaddy