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Publish your website using cPanel File Manager or FTP.

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Your website’s public files go in the public_html folder. The file that opens first must be called index.html or index.php.

Option 1: File Manager (no software needed)

  1. Log in to cPanel and open File Manager under Files.
  2. Open the public_html folder.
  3. Click Upload, and drag in your files. For many files, upload one .zip file instead.
  4. If you uploaded a .zip, go back to File Manager, right-click it and choose Extract. Make sure the files end up directly inside public_html, not in a subfolder.
  5. Visit your domain to check the site.

Option 2: FTP (for larger sites)

  1. In cPanel, open FTP Accounts and create an account, or use your main cPanel login.
  2. Install an FTP program such as FileZilla.
  3. Connect with:
Setting Value
Host yourdomain.co.bw (or your server IP)
Protocol FTP with explicit TLS, or SFTP if enabled
Port 21 (FTP)
Username Your FTP or cPanel username
Password Its password
  1. Upload your files into public_html.

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