Help Frustrated

[lasalmo]

Hello,

 

I am new to the web design/hosting game. I have received account activation e-mails from *****. But I feel very confused on what to do next. I have created a web site using dreamweaver and have even uploaded it to cpanel, but cpanel makes no sense to me. just upload website files to www folder? Is there step by step instructions on how to get your web site up and running? I tried searching through the posts but no luck, I am sure they are there but...

 

Thanks for any help lasalmo

[Head Guru]

Hello confused.

 

Did your upload not work, give me some more details to work with.

[lasalmo]

Hi Guru.

 

 

I have uploaded my web site files to the public html folder.

 

when I go to my website this is the message I recieve:

 

SNH Network Operations Center

 

Please refer to your welcome email for instructions on viewing your Web Site.

 

Thank You.

 

I am obviously missing something. thanks for the help. lasalmo

http://lancecampbell.com/

[Lianna]

Hi. What is the page name of your home page?

 

Go to cPanel's File Manager and look in public_html. Specifically look to see if there is a file called index.html (with an L at the end). If there is, then click the name index.html and view the page. That is probably the SNH Op Center page that you are seeing when accessing your site. DELETE that ONE file and you should be good.

 

What happens is that there are several possible home page names, each of which are sought after by the server in a predetermined order when someone access your site without specifying the page name. Like if I type *****/index.htm in my browser address bar, that's where it will take me without question, to THAT page. But if I only type *****, then it has to go through a list of potential page names to see if they exist. Normally, that list order is something like this:

 

First look for index.html. If found then display, else:

Look for index.htm. If found, then display, else:

Look for default.html...

then default.htm

then home.html

then home.htm

 

You get the idea. So, if the SNH Op Center page is named index.html, then that's as far as it will go through the list. I don't know the exact order for the SNH servers, but it really doesn't matter much. Just name your home page index.html.

 

Lianna

[lasalmo]

Thanks.

 

Everything seems to be working smoothly.

 

Lance

My Webpage

[Lianna]

So what fixed it? The deletion of index.html?

 

Love the pic of the trout! That's amazing.

 

Lianna

[lasalmo]

yes deleting the old index file and renaming my homepage file to index, like you said. =)

 

I did not know that my homepage had to be named index.html, I had renamed it to something else. Thanks, for the compliment on the fish photos. =) L

[Lianna]

Good. Glad all is well.

 

Lianna