Overview: How to Upload the Index File to Your Website via FileZilla
This guide explains How to Upload the Index File to Your Website via FileZilla step‑by‑step and why it matters for security, uptime, and performance. It’s written for small and medium businesses that rely on Blackhawk MSP for proactive, managed IT support in the Bay Area and beyond.
- ✅ Clear, actionable steps
- ✅ Best‑practice notes from our MSP engineers
- ✅ Links to related services and help
Tip: If you’re short on time, contact us — we’ll handle this for you and verify everything is working.
You can follow this tutorial to upload the files to your hosting account.
1. Open FileZilla FTP Client.
2. Enter your FTP host, username, and password. You can use your cPanel username and password as your FTP user and password. Then click on Quick Connect.
- Enter your domain name in the Host field, such as ftp.example.com or example.com.
3. Make sure that you are inside the public_html folder, if not then double click on it to go to the public_html folder.
4. Under Local Site in FileZilla, open the directory where your website files are located. Right-click on your index file and choose Upload.
You can view the progress of the upload in FileZilla.
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