Help - total website emergency!!

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I have been asked to update friend's website for them.
Have been playing all day, now managed to publish new page. But instead of showing new modified home page, it's all gone!!!!
Please help

Need more information really. Did you accidentally change the name or filetype? It was probably index.html to start with depending on the site.

Are you uploading/downloading the file (using FTP perhaps?) or is it one of those 'edit it on the site' packages?

And do you mean the site is ALL gone or that the home page is there unchanged?

Hi Grey
Sorry to be unhelpful
am using nvu and created a new home page called index.html.
published it using nvu. can see it in the directory thing and when i use filezilla can see it there.
then this is the stupid part, accidentallly deleted index.html from the webserver cos there were 2 files called this... and now nothing
look [www.tasteofbute.com here]

Sorry messed up link
here

Anybody???

i think i must have, but when i look on the filezilla list it's still there.

yes.
it's still there, there were 2 versions of the file index.html an old one created months ago and a new one i uploaded today.
now the new one is showing on filezilla but when you go to look at website you just get that error messsage

ok
so i have the original one saved.
so if i delete all the files called index.html and then upload the correct one, then that should work?

yes. sorry ll to be a pain, think i overestimated my abilities!!

Right have deleted and uploaded.
then saw the htm thing
can i rename the file as htm and then upload again? or do i need to go into the file and do save as?

Sorry to be a total idiot but what is /var/www/html/ directory and how do i find it?

lapin you are a total lifesaver.
think it is now working.
can you test the link to check for me please
here

that was what i was trying to do in the first place to put a typo to check i could alter the homepage ....
and then all the trouble started!!
ll you are a star

so....
just one more question, if I alter it again, do i just make the changes then hit publish, or do I need to delete the old index.htm page first and then upload a new one?