We are assuming that you have successfully created a new web hosting account.
We also assume that you have logged in to your brand-new cPanel hosting panel interface.
With these done, scroll to the Files section and click on the File Manager icon.
Select to highlight the file or files that you want to move.
Select Move from the toolbar at the top of the interface.
When the Move interface appears, enter the file path that you want to move the file to in the "Enter the file path that you want to move this file to " text box.
Click Move File(s) to move the file.
There is also another way of moving files.
You can also move files by either:
- dragging the file icon into the new destination folder or
- using the Rename functionality which will ask you for a destination.
Command-Line
To move a file using the command line, use the "mv" command:
mv -i index.php public_html/about
If you are in /home/$username, then:
mv -i public_html/index.php public_html/about && ls -al
