ve uploaded all the files via FTP to my site but for some reason whever I try to view the pages in a browser it simply comes up with an error message. The only page I can get is the defaul AstaHost page you get when you first goto your site and havent made a new website to take its place?

My url is: http://tazum.astaplace.com I should have a page at:

http://tazum.astaplace.com/index.php But it wont work?

I simply get this error message:

Not Found
The requested URL /index.php was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

oh, well, you are using WRONG link to your page, I don't know who tell you this, but link to your page is not astaplace, it's this:
http://tazum.astahost.com/

so, when you visit this corrected link you will see a default page for every account.
Now, when you log in with your account, via FTP, you should see some folders list, so navigate with your FTP client to folder called public_html and start uploading your files there. if you dont know how to do that, look at this picture:


and finally you must CHMOD your files, if you have no idea what CHMOD is, it stands for "change mode" command, and that command is used to change perrmision to access to files on your account. So basicly all you need to do is to make your files under "public_html" folder publicly accessible. And you do that by selecting all the files under "public_html" and selecting a mode 644 or like this:

I hope you understand all this...