Upload to public_html? SOLVED

I’ve switched hosting and run into something I’ve not seen before in my limited experience. Usually (other providers) I’ve always been able to just ftp upload a full site folder to the host and it works no issue. Here, I used Cyberduck in this example since I had not yet set up Sitely/“Publish” for this provider yet.

This provider tells me - “You didn’t upload your files into the public_html of each domain folder. You uploaded to the root of each domain. Which is not correct.”

So the question is - what files (from within the site folder?) go where?
In this screenshot example - 5 html pages. Simple site.
Do just these 5 html pages go into domains/website.com/public_html (folder)?
OR - does everything in domains/website.com/. go into website.com/public_html
OR does everything in website.com/ go into root/public_html
Or something else?

Apologies I’m confused by this structure - I’ve had quite a few different services over the years and not seen it.

Wondering if I’m going to have configuration issues in Sitely for this different type of set up. But one thing at a time - I’d like to understand what’s going on and where things are supposed to go first.

For me, I would use the Sitely Publish… far less messy.
But to answer your question, all websites and thier needed folders should be placed into the “public-html” folder.

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Thanks. Apparently I had to delete the temp page they put in the public_html folder - (inside the site folder) - and then move everything in the site folder down one level - into that public_html (sub)folder. That’s a new one to me… It’s working now!

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