published transferred domain

[bellissimo]

Hi all.....I was so pleased with my experience with vodahost that I transferred my other website domain name to voda. I saved all the pages in a separate folder and made changes to most of them and wish now to publish them. I saved the home page initially as index until I saw a prior thread which stated that was inappropriate and to name the page the name of your website. (that was confusing in and of itself) I published but only get the infamous index page not my webpage. What am I doing wrong? I already have a website up and running and this website has been up for five years. Aaackkkk....

Thanks for any help.
Heather
www.bellissimofloral.com
www.nevadasympathyflowers.com

[LadyEye]

Re: published transferred domain

If you have made a successful transfer or add on of this new domain you will need to name save and publish a page entitled index - (perhaps you were reading a prior thread about page titles, that's different)

lol on the Aaackkkkkkk!

[bellissimo]

Re: published transferred domain

I tried that originally with no success, I then changed the name (per the prior thread) and that didn't work either...... Do I need a different server ip etc because I never received one. I'm using the same web builder, just saving the pages into a different folder. So of course, when I hit publish I get the same server ip etc as I do for my other website, nevada sympathy flowers.

Heather

[Bethers]

Re: published transferred domain

Heather - did you make an add-on domain in your control panel? YOu must do that first - and then you will publish to the new name as such:

public_html/nameofnewdomain

to the SAME IP address

[bellissimo]

Re: published transferred domain

Thanks beth, it's asking for a username and password.....do I use my same username and password for the cp or do I make one up? Also, it looks as thought it wants to set up bellissimofloral.com as a subdomain. It needs to be a completely separate domain. I'm still confused.

Heather

[Karen Mac]

Re: published transferred domain

Heather,

Use your control panel user and password. The add on is like a subdomain, technically is, but it will create it correctly, then u just have to publish to the same ip but in the path change public_html to public_html/newdomainname

That way it will publish to the correct folder. Make sure your home page is index, small letters.

Karen

[bellissimo]

Re: published transferred domain

Hi Karen: Thank you for your advice. I logged in on my cp and added bellissimofloral.com as instructed. I changed the path to public_html/bellissimofloral.com but received an error message stating that the file or directory did not exist.

[bellissimo]

Re: published transferred domain

Hi All: it's me again. I still have not been able to resolve this problem. Can anyone out there help me. I am losing money every day my site is down. Thanks.

Heather
www.bellissimofloral.com

[bellissimo]

Re: published transferred domain

Ok....prior problem resolved. However now I get the index of....page rather than the actual homepage. It is named index small letters nothing else. What am I doing wrong??? any ideas? Thanks for any help.

Heather
www.bellissimofloral.com

[LadyEye]

Re: published transferred domain

are you publishing to public_html/bellimisofloral ... (you need to type that in the menu box when you go to publish to this add on domain) .. so publish up your index page to public_html/bellimisofloral - did you try that?

[bellissimo]

Re: published transferred domain

that is what I did..

[dolomart]

Re: published transferred domain

you name it index thats all no html try that my home page is index.bvp so you can try that bud

www.dolomart.com

[bellissimo]

Re: published transferred domain

Thanks....but it is named index....that's why I'm stumped.

Heather