Defining existing site

New here, with a newbie question. I have a site at
donaldcherry.com. The initial page is a simple one, with two links,
one to a Moodle learning site and one to a large site I made myself
with CS2 several years ago and have on my hard drive.I have used
CS3 very little, but when I have I always connected to the remote
site directly (I have not defined a site). I thought I'd go ahead
and define a site. Since I only have the files for the large
non-Moodle site, I just went to define that. Plugged in the remote
host info and all that. But now the local view and the remote view
are different (of course). The remote view shows my entire
site--Moodle, welcome page with the two links, and all. Is that OK?
Is that normal? Should I even have bothered to define this site? Am
I the most clueless person you've ever met?

I'm guessing that the root of your site includes all of that.
If you =
want your site to just be the interior site, then define it
to that =
folder within the site with an address something like =
http://www.mysite.com/myfolder
and then in the remote, use the FTP =
address and then put /myfolder/ as the host directory. Then
the home =
page should be your interior home page of what you want.
Or at least I think that's what you're asking. :)
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