Thanks to some very generous comments and support of various members, I have worked through most of the problems I had experienced when Godaddy upgraded me to the latest Linux cPanel software as the web server for my stations.
I'm a bit happy that the designers of Linux web service have taken upon themselves to spoof the address (e.g. ecwx.info is really ecwx.info/public_html/) which is just a confusing layer that while it may be necessary for them to operate, isn't well discussed in any of their materials and takes a very paternalistic view of someone trying to access a site. Now that I've got that off my chest, I'll accept what is, and move on.
I've not found a real live person connection to GoDaddy lately. A few months ago I had my first and only problem in a very long time and got a live person to lead me through understanding things on their end.
This time I've learned more from forum members giving me information than I have from GoDaddy, and only seem to be able to connect through on line chat, with people who's primary language is not English, with many misunderstandings since texting/typing is fraught with assumptions and short cuts that can be picked up right away in spoken discussion.
Anyway, all is well except for one problem. I have a program, Graphweather, which I like a lot. After a steep learning curve to get it to function, I find it very configurable and has been running very stable for years. The author is French or French Canadian, which adds again to my difficulty reading that forum's comments and making heads or tails of the fine points. The program seems to still be used occasionally, especially in Italy, France and Spain. Again, once it is configured, it just plugs away. An update was issued 4 or 5 years ago, but I've never been able to successfully install it. My version allows me to generate graphs that are stored locally, and my Weather Display software can do things with it to add to the page it makes. One thing I did do is use GraphWeather to upload those two graphs to my web server. The options in that portion of GraphWeather setup let me tell it what the server is, the login name and pass word and that is it. In that setup section there is no option to specify a subdirectory to load to, so the ftp files go right to the root directory of my web server. Of course when I use a browser, the Linux web handler on their end does it magic and inserts '\public_html' in front of the address to my various instances of Weather Display .html files, where there is no graphic.jpg to see; it is one directory higher.
I'm a pee poor programmer and my initial though would be to write a .php file that would run as a cron job to just move a copy of the graph.jpg file into one of the subdirectories. That would involve learning .php well enough to do it, and to get the hosting server to run the cron job on some regular basis.
Finally, to my question: For all those who live and breath programming and web pages and such in the Linux environment such as what GoDaddy uses, is there a way to use a browser to peer into the root directory, the REAL root, of my web presence, and display the file I give the name of?
Thanks Dale