well actually the only stupid question is the one you dont ask,
so my questions is after just activating my webhosting account, and transferring the fies by ftp i now goto my address but am always be on the same original page as follows (not my website)

This site is currently Hosted at astaHost.com

If you are seeing this message then it means that your site is up and your account is functioning properly.

Please see to it that you do the following steps before you continue :-

1. Login to your cpanel by typing, http://yoursite.com/cpanel.
2. Enter the userID and Password.
3. Change the Email address in your Cpanel. (used to recover your password incase you lose it)
4. Change the Password in your Cpanel.


as far as i know i did all these instructions,

maybe i have uploaded my website to the wrong part of the server?
Should I load it into a directory? or just anywhere?
thanks.
chris
p..s my site is www.antique.astahost.com

 

 

 

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Hi, no such thing as a stupid question...

Did you upload an index.html? if you did then you should see it by typing http://antique.astahost.com/ no need to type www.

Your files should be uploaded to the public_html directory. They will show up in the www directory automaticly.

if you type http://antique.astahost.com/newfile.html (newfile.html) is the name of one of your files does it show up?

Goos luck. let me know if it worked?

Nils

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Hello Nils, thanks for taking the time to help me

i tried that link you suggested and got this reply

Not Found
The requested URL /newfile.html was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache/1.3.33 Server at www.antique.astahost.com Port 80


Im not sure if my files were in the right directory, but i can see them on there,
so i uploaded them again (this time to the public html directory,
but still get the mesage
Welcome to your Hosting Account!

This site is currently Hosted at astaHost.com

If you are seeing this message then it means that your site is up and your account is functioning properly.

when i go to the web address.

Have you any ideas for me? am i missing something maybe?
thanks
chris

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give me a filename one one of the files you uploaded. I have a lot of test files in my directory because I'm experimenting. The most important is to name your home file something that is standard. Index.htm or index.html I think the other one is home.htm or home.html (Unless newfile.htm was a name of one of the files you uploaded you will get the error)

Nils

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hello nils, there are 5 files I uploaded,

one of them is index.html,

(the site works fine offline on my comp)

thanks chris

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OK, index.html is the name of the welcome file. did the file get exchanged. look at the date time stamp. I still get the welcome page when accessing your site. Try one of the other files and see if it show up. just type the filename instead of index.html.

Nils

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maybe the index file of astahost for some reason can't to be updated (something this happends with some files), the recomendation, delete all index files, and then upload your index.html.
Or maybe you are not uploading in the folder correctly, when you log with your ftp client, put the file inside public_html folder.

Besides there are some hierarchy with the extensions, if you have for example 3 index files index.html index.htm and index.php, the order is:

first index.html then index.htm and index.php, in other ways .html wins always.

Greets
Deivid

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thanks for all your help, couldnt have done it without it!

was the index file, needed uploading again, it working perfect now.
thanks again
chris

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Chris,

Congratulation, I'm glad you got it up and working. Sorry I had to leave yesterday before we got it up and running.

Nice site... even though I don't like dark sites.. (personal opinion) Took me awhile to figure out the slidebar thingie on top...

Nils

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Chris1234 did u upload in public_html folder ?? i beleave that is the foder in wich u must upload your site files ,am i correct ??
It would be useful to see somewhere on the site: " the director in wich u must upload your files is public_htm"

P3@c3

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