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Problem with domain.
Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2005 5:59 am
by rsmarsha
My domain
http://www.nexusguild.co.uk seems to point to a blank page for some and the right page for others. To view the homepage i have to type index.php after it, some others don't as it shows with just the domain. I've recently redirected it to another folder from my host control panel and the old one worked fine. Any ideas?
I've cleared cache and tried it in both IE and Firefox.
Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2005 6:51 am
by onion2k
When you say "redirected it to another folder" would that involve any changes to DNS? Coz it may just not have propagated yet.
I can see the site (UK based, using BT internet) if that helps at all.
Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2005 7:17 am
by n00b Saibot
I can see that site too

but it opened news.php and not index.php as you said...
Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2005 7:31 am
by foobar
You probably have news.php set as your default page in your CMS.
Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2005 9:06 am
by jayshields
Well, it gives me a blank page, but if I add index.php after it it works fine.
Make sure your domain points to the root folder or you could even point it directly to index.php, that is ofcourse if your using Web Forwarding and not Name Servers or w/e to direct your domain.
Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2005 2:24 pm
by rsmarsha
Yeah the index, redirects auto to news.php as thats set to be the initial page. In my host (1and1), i'm directing it to /nexus as the home folder. I only have the options to point my domains at any folder within my webspace, and not a file. Confusing as before , i had it pointing to a folder which worked fine. It's just this one domain that is doing it.
Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 1:31 pm
by rsmarsha
Still can't seem to find out why this is happening. any ideas?
Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 1:38 pm
by twigletmac
Have you asked the hosting company - maybe the configuration for that domain is wonky and they could sort it out for you?
Mac
Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 3:02 pm
by RobertGonzalez
It may have something to do with the order your host has set up your index pages. Sometimes the host only includes index.htm and index.html so if you attempt to load your page using
http://www.yourpage.com/ and it doesn't find an index.htm or index.html it doesn't load. It will load if you tell it to go to
http://www.yourpage.com/index.php but not if you leave off the index.php part.
Most hosts have a setting that you can congifure that will allow you to add page names and what not to the list of approved index names (that is how some people can load default.asp or home.php). Ask you host how to change your index page order and acceptable pages and it should fix your issue.