Access error uploading file using winsp - permissions

I am trying to upload two files to a webserver so my teacher can see it. I am using winsp since my filezila doesnt work. But for some reason it is telling me that i don't have access to that page. Can anyone tell me why is it doing that.Here is a picture of my screen.
I am just not understanding why it is telling me that i don't have to access it.

If I had to take a guess, that public_html folder is your public directory where you should put things that anybody can get to (like through a browser). You have your files outside of that directory, so your page can't access them.
edit:
It's an educated guess, as I have seen a fair amount of server configurations that name the public web folder as such (other common names are "www" and "httpdocs")

Problem definitly isn't in code. There is error while uploading files. Can you connect to FTP regulary? If you can. Look for Active or Passive file transfer to FTP. Also if you can upload files, files must be in public_html folder to be visible from browser.
Active or passive

First read Neal comment.
second, you should probably copy the files into the /public_html folder, instead of the / (root) folder.

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How to disable the download of files in an Apache2 webserver?

I took over a website which I'm supposed to admin and somebody brought to my attention that certain Indexes and Files are available, which shouldn't be. I will be using dummy names.
You were able to access example.com/intern before, but I changed a line in /etc/apache2/apache2.conf according to this https://stackoverflow.com/a/31445273 . This worked partly, as I get a 403-Forbidden when I now navigate to example.com/intern and that's basically what I want.
However the directory intern governs a file called file.php.bak aswell as file.php. When I navigate to example.com/intern/file.php I get a white website. I am however not sure, if you are able to access file.php in another way, because the site does load and I don't get a 403 like before. What is way worse and the reason I am struggling with this is: If I go to example.com/intern/file.php.bak then my Browser (Firefox) offers me to download file.php.bak, which I can read in plaintext. I want all files in intern to not be accessible via the website, but I have no idea how to do this. Can anybody help?
Things I've tried:
Removing the Indexes from the apache2.conf file like mentioned above. It only puts the 403 on the directory itself and not recursively for all the files in it.
Writing a .htaccess file as described here: https://fedingo.com/how-to-prevent-direct-file-download-in-apache-server/ and putting it in intern with the same result as in 1)
Putting an empty index.html file in the intern directory. This leads to no more 403 in example.com/intern, but the download on example.com/intern/file.php.bak is still possible. I've also tried index.php with the same result.
File System:
The application runs from /var/www/application which is also the folder for the /var/www/application/index.php I want to use. The /var/www/application/intern directory is also there. While it isn't browsable anymore, the files in it still are accessible. /var/www/application/intern/file.php can be navigated to via example.com/intern/file.php, but it seems like it can't be downloaded or read as it results in a white page. /var/www/application/intern/file.php.bak can however be downloaded via example.com/intern/file.php.bak.
Let's say Apache document root is set to DocumentRoot "/folder_one/folder_two"
Placing files in a folder_one will prevent people browsing your apache server and requesting the files directly.
Place index file in folder_two and include some code such as PHP to tell apache to include whatever files you want from folder_one.
In this manor Apache will still be able to serve whatever files you want from folder_one and people will not be able to request the files directly as the are located in a directory above the Apache document root.

Files Lost during move in cPanels File Manager

I had a task that required me to move files from a subdomain to the public_html directory on my cPanel. To move them I simply selected the files and directories I wanted from the subdomain, clicked move and entered the destination path.
Once the move process had completed, only some of the files and folders were in the new location (public_html). The files that didn't move to the new location no longer seem to exist.
Has anyone encountered this problem before and is there any way to recover the lost files (they aren't in the trash)?
Thanks in advance!
Have you tried to connect to your server with other FTP client like FileZilla or something similar to see if the files are still missing. It seems like UI glitch. cPanel represents only an user interface and is not able to delete the files.

Block the user from viewing files in the directory via the url

I'm pretty new in developing for VB.NET. I have a web application and I want to block the access to the files in a directory.
For example:
If the user access the following page: application.com/example/page.aspx
If the user remove the page name and type "application.com/example/", he will see all the files inside the folder "example".
I want to block this possibility and, when a user try to access the files, redirect to an error page.
I know how to solve this in PHP through htaccess, but I have never done it by VB.NET. Any help?
If you are using IIS then
Go to your sites-->Desired Site
From Features Views Select Directory Browsing disabled.
web.config or .htaccess will do.
Remember it is a security risk to have directories open for anyone to see.

Issue with importing a database into phpMyAdmin

I am learning how to use SQL, I set up a localhost, in the course of that journey, I was confronted to the issue of importing sql files into phpMyAdmin, I did the right click on config.inc.php and clicked on the Notepad++ that I previously installed, I typed in there the following code: $cfg['UploadDir']='c:\Files';, of course I created on the hard drive C the Files directory. Now that I came back into phpMyAdmin, clicked on my database, clicked on import, this is what I got as message:
The directory you set for upload work cannot be reached.
Can anyone help me here with this issue?
Your webserver probably doesn't have permission to read 'c:\Files' thus it is not a valid directory. Technically you would say this is out of the web root.
I suggest you set the upload directory to a subdirectory of your web server's root directory (or in the PHPMyAdmin web directory). Then if for your own ease of use you want it to be located at 'c:\Files' you can create a shortcut from the web root upload directory whatever you name it, and place the shortcut in 'c:' and name it 'Files'.

Can't read or write to directory CFFILE despite 777 permissions coldfusion

This is installed on a Unix system I don't have direct access to, but can get insight on by sitting with a network team.
The problem is this, I have 3 folders I need access to, read and write. The problem is, I only have access to 1 of them, and only read. This is via ColdFusion, I can get into them fine with the user they are assigned to (and the CF server runs on, which is the "www" user).
I CAN read and write to the temporary file directory, the place files are stored before they are moved to the destination directory (SERVER-INF/ etc etc etc), but that's not helpful. I have tried having the network people set the permissions for the other folders to the same thing, but with no results. The current settings of the folder I can access are rwxrws--- and the other folders are rwxrwxr-x, so I should have more permissions ( the "s" is not a mistake in the first folder).
We have tried setting the other folders to 777 and we did not even get read capability. Does the server need to be restarted on a Unix box after setting new permissions for ColdFusion to be able to get to them? I'm out of ideas right now, I'll take any new suggestions.
TL;DR
All using ColdFusion
temp directory - can read and write to
folder 1 - can read from (including subdirectories)
folder 2 - cannot read or write to (permission denied)
folder 3 - cannot read or write to (permission denied)
Goal: Get upload functionality working.
Edit: Server using apache
Just a random guess... Have you checked that paths you are trying to access are fully correct? They should be absolute for file operations, and www user must have X permissions on the all path directories -- to enter them.
The problem ended up being a restart was required after setting the new folder permissions. We didn't think this was an issue on a Unix box, however ColdFusion apparently did. This worked.