getting closer...

I'm getting closer to getting this simple site published on BSH, and have narrowed the problem down to just a few things. First of all, I can get on my server using Transmit and the credentials in the Publishing panel in my project file, so that's good, but it doesn't show the application yet... maybe because publishing failed too soon to create it. Here are two places where the trouble might lie:

  1. The site was built in 2017 with my previous site-builder and is hosted on my previous web host. Do I need to take that site down before asking BSH to put up a site with the identical URL? I think I understood Joe to say that I could have both sites up until confirming that the new one is exactly right, toggling back and forth between servers/sites via the Cloudflare integration, but I could have misunderstood that. I've spent the past couple days rebuilding the site in RW, and didn't want to touch the old site until I got everything on the new site. The new site is integrated on Cloudflare, with the A records pointed to the IP address of my BSH server, but the strange thing is that Cloudflare is showing analytics from the old site... I guess it's based on the URL, not the server address.

  2. I could also have setup problems. I'm satisfied that everything down through Website Address is fine (the Path is /public_html, right?) What's below is what's in question. I've tried it with Use Public Key Authentication checked and unchecked, but not knowing what my Private Key is or where to find it, I don't expect that to work when checked. The Passphrase is a mystery as well. The originalgreen.org Publish panel has none of these items, so I have no pattern to follow; it was first published from RW in 2020. Finally, the .htaccess file is currently empty, as I don't need to make pretty URLs because this site has no blog; it's just pages with text and pictures.

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