gsja
09-11-2006, 02:42 PM
Hi,
Just joined this site and I suspect that I will be by many times.
Currently, I am using a BSD Unix powered host who manages
their clients using hsphere 2.0. My problem is this.
I wrote a welcome page in html and uploaded it to my ftp site as
the opening page. It's called Welcome.html. I gave everyone the address mydomain.com/Welcome.html. I then wanted to list with several search engines, but before I did that, I wanted to create a pointer that
would open up the Welcome page whenever I typed mydomain.com
into the browser.
I tried to do this myself using the redirection tool on hsphere. I ended up losing access to the domain. I wrote a trouble ticket and a few days later technical support came back and said "it's fixed". It worked exactly
the way I had wanted, but I wondered about future editing.
Now, I wish to edit the opening page, but cannot get the edited version to open by typing mydomain.com. I must append /Welcome.html to bring it up.
I did a "work around" by superimposing text to the a photograph linked to the original Welcome page which directed a person viewing the page to click the first link. Another link later and one would arrive at the new Welcome page. This, of course is unacceptable.
Once again, I had tried (temporary) redirection, only to lose access to the domain. I took the redirection off and got it back (probably cause it was temporary). I've written a trouble ticket requesting a little direction so I can manage this myself, but no answer after over a week.
In the meantime, I have installed LAMP on an old P111 that will become my server once my subscription to the WEB hosting service expires (in about a month) so I can administer the site with root privilages.
I have knowledge of Red Hat Linux and Solaris Unix; (enough to muddle through) and am comfortable writing scripts in bash, csh, sh. It's just a matter of getting back up to speed as Unix administration courses were several years ago and I am out of practice.
Help is appreciated.
gsja
Just joined this site and I suspect that I will be by many times.
Currently, I am using a BSD Unix powered host who manages
their clients using hsphere 2.0. My problem is this.
I wrote a welcome page in html and uploaded it to my ftp site as
the opening page. It's called Welcome.html. I gave everyone the address mydomain.com/Welcome.html. I then wanted to list with several search engines, but before I did that, I wanted to create a pointer that
would open up the Welcome page whenever I typed mydomain.com
into the browser.
I tried to do this myself using the redirection tool on hsphere. I ended up losing access to the domain. I wrote a trouble ticket and a few days later technical support came back and said "it's fixed". It worked exactly
the way I had wanted, but I wondered about future editing.
Now, I wish to edit the opening page, but cannot get the edited version to open by typing mydomain.com. I must append /Welcome.html to bring it up.
I did a "work around" by superimposing text to the a photograph linked to the original Welcome page which directed a person viewing the page to click the first link. Another link later and one would arrive at the new Welcome page. This, of course is unacceptable.
Once again, I had tried (temporary) redirection, only to lose access to the domain. I took the redirection off and got it back (probably cause it was temporary). I've written a trouble ticket requesting a little direction so I can manage this myself, but no answer after over a week.
In the meantime, I have installed LAMP on an old P111 that will become my server once my subscription to the WEB hosting service expires (in about a month) so I can administer the site with root privilages.
I have knowledge of Red Hat Linux and Solaris Unix; (enough to muddle through) and am comfortable writing scripts in bash, csh, sh. It's just a matter of getting back up to speed as Unix administration courses were several years ago and I am out of practice.
Help is appreciated.
gsja