I see files in Filezilla, but the internet denies their existance

Question

I am doing some updates to a 10-year old site, and I am baffled. Everything worked great locally, so I uploaded a bunch of stuff to the server using Filezilla. Within Filezilla I can see all of the files, but for some reason I get a 404 when trying to view them.

It seems as though (at least for the folder I'm currently checking) this is happening for items which are "farther down the list" alphabetically. I tried to re-upload a file individually but it didn't change anything.

Is this an indication that I hit some sort of limit with the hosting company? And if so why can I still view the files from Filezilla?

Answer 1

I found the answer with the SM36_3M.jpg file, you need to make sure the extension is uppercase: http://ercolehome.com/images/products/mirrors/SM36_3M.JPG

The way I found this out was by going to here

http://ercolehome.com/images/products/mirrors/

You might want to turn off directory listing.

Answer 2

Firstly, can you upload a unique file to the root dir and then check on the internet that it is there. Just wondering if you have for some reason connected to the wrong area/account. Have done this myself before.

Also, can you clear the whole directory and then upload one of the "non-working" files and test?

Or create a sub directory and upload to that, testing one file at a time.

Give us a list of the file names & directories, and a url we can test?

Also as Paulmorriss says, check the file name case as non windows servers are a bit fussy about this. You have F5'd/refreshed Filezilla to double check the directory does contain these files

Answer 3

That's because all the files can be upload but viewing the file in the internet is not allowed. There are certain restriction that prohibits anyone to see the file.