Uploaded new pages and changes to existing site but it does not show.

what do I have to do activate these changes?

[jlspcdr]

Hi there, I am new to web developing. I was able to make changes to an existing site and add pages to the site. I downloaded the html files from the ftp server made the changes and additions then uploaded to the ftp server. Renamed the home pages to indicate the one that's to be used but the same old pages still appear. Why? What else do I have to do to see the new pages when I open a brower and type the url? What calls the first page from a www url address and how do I change that to the new page I want to display? Where do I have to put those files? Your help would be greatly appreciated, thank you.

[Leosghost]

Ok ..
First thing ..flush the cache from your browser and then come back and see if in fact the pages were the new ones or if you browser was just keeping the old ones to show you to save bandwidth ...

if it still doesnt work ..come and tell us

[isitreal]

Renamed the home pages to indicate the one that's to be used but the same old pages still appear.

What do you mean? Did you change from index.html to default.html or something like that?

Are you using IIS or Apache web server?

If you changed the default page without changing this in your server, it won't show up. If you type in the actual url does it show up? like www.yoursite.com/home.html?

but if you type in www.yoursite.com/ does another page show up?

[PatrickDeese]

Are you sure you are uploading in the right directory?

Sometimes you need to upload the pages into the "public" directory.

At one hosting company the website "lives" in a directory called "www", and in another it is located in "docs".

Could be that you are uploading into the directory above the directory that contains the website's contents.