I Need Help

Hi, I will try to make this brief. I have designed a website for a friend of mine and I subscribed to a web hosting service(adelphia) and they use apache web server. My problem is that I don't know how to make my page appear when someone types in the url. I have uploaded my files using an ftp. The guy that I spoke to in tech support said that I need to create a file called index and put my files in there then they will be executed.
Also let me add that is all I wanted was to design a simple website for my brother-in-laws business and then put it on the web. I am subscribed to a small business unix enhanced server. Is there a website or a book I can get to help me !!!!!! I have spent sooo many hours trying to figure this out and I am a little lost!

Thanks for letting me get that off my chest!

Angie

There are hundreds and hundreds of books and websites out there that will help improve your knowledge.

Now, when the Tech Support guy said that you had to make a file called index.html, that has to be your homepage. So, if your first page of your site is called home.html, rename it to index.html and change your links on the other pages to reflect that change, upload the files to your server, and type the web address in your browser and your page should appear.........

And if it doesn't, let us know exactly what DOES happen. It's easier, after all, to troubleshoot the problem when we know what it is

Hello Joe,
Thank-You for the quick reply. I opened my web page in FrontPage and tried to change the name of it and this is the error I received.

"FrontPage cannot save this document because a file with the same name exists at this location. Please enter a different name and try again"

Do you have any suggestions?

Thanks so much!

Angie

Well, I suggest you don't use Frontpage , but that's just my opinion

Is it giving you that error when you try to change it locally (on your own computer) or are you trying to change it on the server?

What do you suggest I use?

When I type in my URL I get the message:
FORBIDDEN
You don't have permission to access this server?

Hmmm... that's not good. If you're certain you're typing the right URL, you'll have to call up the folks that host your site and let them know that you're being blocked. If you don't mind, you can post the URL here and we'll give it a shot too to see if we get denied when we try to access it.

Oh... that's nothing. It's telling you you're not allowed to access the / directory on the site. / is the top level directory and you're not allowed to view it's contents from the web. You need to create a page in the top level directory named either "index.htm" or "index.html". Then, when you go to that link you posted, the server will automatically try to find one of those two pages if you don't type something after the / at the end of the URL instead of trying to list out its contents on to the browser. In other words this:

http://www.abracadabraservices.com/
will become this automatically:
http://www.abracadabraservices.com/index.html

good god.

I would love to know what you were thinking when you posted
"good god"

Thanks for the laugh!

i would like to know what you were thinking when you posted:


anyway.. ctb has it explained, copy the contents of the directory you have on your computer over to the server. make sure there is an index file (most likely index.htm or index.html) to be shown when you go to http://www.abracadabraservices.com/

oh yes, you're very welcome for the laugh.. even though it was at your expense.

I must not get it....

Anyway.. back to the thread... what's your status on this? I notice it's still not up Did you create an index.html (or index.htm) file and put it at the very TOP of the directory structure on your site? Also, did you ever get the FP problem sorted out, or is it still giving you crap (I hate FrontPage... I prefere Macromedia Dreamweaver myself: http://www.macromedia.com/ but it's sort of pricey)?

OK, problem solved! I spoke with tech support today for about 2 hours! They could not figure out what the problem was. We went through all the troubleshooting that the "top level tech" could think of. They decided that they are going to delete my account and start over. This is like the 4th time they have done this.
I did delete my website and created another one CLOSELY following FrontPage's instructions. When I look at it in file view I do see index.html.

As far as the previous post
"FrontPage cannot save this document because a file with the same name exists at this location. Please enter a different name and try again"
Do you have any suggestions?

I still can't stop laughing. I Have been working hard!
Thank You for all your help! I'll be back when I run into my next problem.

Angie