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Where your website's files live

Every website is a folder of files on the server. There’s one special folder — the web root (also called the document root) — and whatever you put in it becomes your website. Put a file in there, and it has a web address. That’s the whole idea.

Files inside the web root folder map directly to URLs on your domain The web root folder on your server 📁 pulmocon.org/ 📄 index.html 📄 about.html 📁 assets/ 📄 app.js 🖼️ logo.png becomes these web addresses pulmocon.org/ pulmocon.org/about.html pulmocon.org/assets/app.js pulmocon.org/assets/logo.png index = the home page

The rules, simply

  • The web root is your website. Everything inside it is public on your domain. Nothing outside it is served to visitors.
  • index.html is the home page. When someone visits pulmocon.org/ with no file name, the server shows the index.html from the web root. (For PHP sites it’s index.php.)
  • The folder layout = the URL layout. assets/app.js inside the web root is reachable at pulmocon.org/assets/app.js. Make a subfolder, and it becomes a sub-path.

Where is the web root?

In OrbixPanel the web root is simply the folder named after your domain — for example pulmocon.org/. You don’t have to memorize the full path: the File Manager opens in your account, and each website shows its document root. When you create a website, the panel makes this folder for you.

Under the hood that folder is /var/www/<your-domain> for a site you own directly, or /home/orbix-<username>/<your-domain> for a tenant account — but you upload straight into it from the File Manager, so the path rarely matters. OrbixPanel does not nest a public_html folder inside it the way some older panels do.

How you put files there

Three easy ways, no command line required:

  1. File Manager → Upload — drag files straight into the web root in your browser.
  2. Upload a .zip and Extract — fastest for a whole site (one upload instead of hundreds of files). See Files.
  3. FTP/SFTP — a desktop app like FileZilla, if you prefer.

Common mix-up: people upload a folder containing their files (so the site ends up at pulmocon.org/myproject/index.html). You almost always want the files directly inside the web root, so the home page is at pulmocon.org/. If you uploaded a zip, extract it, then move the inner files up one level if needed.

Next: Static vs dynamic sites → — this tells you whether your project is “just files” (like above) or needs a running program.