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Hi,
I set up my existing website as an Add On Domain & set the nameservers to X10 around 24-36 hours ago. I was therefore delighted when I tried the URL last night & accessed my site. So, I signed in & tried to carry out some edits, but couldn't get anything to work. Pictures were stretched down & paragraphs repeated, so I signed out thinking I'd try again today.
This morning when I tried, however, there was no access at all; just the good old 'Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage' page. Later on in the day when I tried I got the X10 default 'Website coming soon' page show up & thought, Aaaah! maybe soon. Now, however, I am back to the 'Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage' page again & having cleared my browser files, flushed dns countless times, I am wondering whether there is a problem or issue that I have overlooked.
My website url is www.losconteros55.co.uk. It is mainly built so far using Concrete, plus 2 pages using Wordpress, both installed via Softaculous & the folder is installed to the public_html root.
Any help or suggestions in non-geek, clear english, for this non-techie would be gratefully received!


Cheers.
 
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From what I can see your name servers are OK. One simple check is to stick a simple file "index.html" in your web root foler , then check your web site from http://www.losconteros55.co.uk/

if something loads then at least this shows system is working its just that things are messed up in web structure.So open up
notepad if using windows and type
<html>
<head> <title>my web page</title></head>
<body>
<h2>hello world from losconteros55.co.uk </h2>

</body>
</html>
Save this file as index.html

load it up to your web root public_html and reload URL of your web site in your favorite browser
 
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Many thanks for the advice. The simple "index.html" acheived just a blank page, so tried the 2nd solution & now receive the message "hello world from losconteros55.co.uk". So, now how do I use this to get my website up & running please? I'm not sure if this is a $64million question or a stupid one, but I'm not a techie so do excuse me if its the latter of the two!
 
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Hi, the following files are in the public_html folder:

cgi bin
gallery
losconteros55.co.uk
Hope this helps - I do suspect this will be something simple & involve stupidity on my part!
 
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OK well look there are no stupid questions, and experts were once where you and I am now.I had a look at losconteros55.co.uk and as you say it says "hello world".What this means is that you have put a file called index.html containing the text "hello world from losconteros55.co.uk" this to me means at least two things.

1) You now know where to put files in the right place in the directories for your x10 web hosting
2) x10 hosting is working fine since it looks for files like index.html, index.php and serves this page as your "home page" for the domain losconteros55.co.uk when someone goes to that url.
3) you are now on the right track.
4) basically even if you use say CodeIgniter which has several directories , it still needs a single index.php as a starter. basically all you need to do now is to
edit the index.html or replace it with index.php and luse it as a link to all your other web pages. Really the ideal would be to install wamp or xamppon your local PC, play with files until it works as you want , then load it up to your web root.In summary your domain is pointing fine to your web hosting, which is x10. X10 web hosting is working fine and is serving up an "index file" as the web page,and displaying it fine. All you need now is time, study, patience. and knowledge.

As a comparison look at my domain nkran.net ; it points also to x10 web hosting inside my web root there is an index.php which is a starter and the rest of the web app (CodeIgniter) basically runs off that first index.php

I'm using x10 web hosting to study CodeIgniter. You can also use x10 to learn about your web app , by putting it first on to your own PC, get it t owork and then load live to x10.
 
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Many thanks for your support & I will try what you suggest, although I am aware that there is already an 'index.php' file within the losconteros55.co.uk file, so not sure why that isn't linking things up already in the way you say. Anyway, it looks as if there is no quick fix, so there will be some trial & error involved, but as I am self taught in all computing matters, I guess I am used to that. It just means I take weeks to acheive what you guys would probably do in 10 mins!
I will get back to you with the results once I have attempted the steps you recommend.
 
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looks like your web is now up! i have just seen "
Welcome to our Charming Spanish Villa, on a Small, Peaceful Development, located on the edge of the small fishing village of Villaricos. " But there is a database issue
 
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Hi, yes it is back, but to do it I had to reconnect to the Hosting provider I was wishing to move from. I'd much rather put the site on X10, but for the life of me, I've just not been able to crack it. I tried to 'play' about with the files as you suggested & took a look at the web apps you mentioned, but they appear a wee bit beyond me. I couldn't wrk out how they could help, which isn't a good start! One issue I did consider was that my website has a database & I'd not thought of importing that into X10, but attempts to do that failed, becuase I don't really understand how to go about it & trial & error was unsuccessful.
So, you say there is a database error, so are you able to expand on that? Having just checked my site out it seemed functional, but what have you spotted?
 
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I was playing with your domain URL assuming you were still on x10 hosting, and the web page came up error.
Regarding x10 hosting you don't have to have an actual parked domain like losconteros55.co.uk which points to their
hosting space.For instance I have a sudo type domain nkran.x10host.com to play with.

So you can still use x10hosting to play with. Leave your domain pointing where it is now. Set up a simple web development environment on your own PC and then load this up to 10xhosting, to see if it works live.

Eventually you can shift to x10 if you like. With limited exposure to what you are doing; I can see you are using a Content Management System, which uses a database. With a small site why not just learn HTML a bit more and expand from the index.html page.

In other words you have already learnt how to code your first home web page yourself ( the index.html) saying hello world. All you need to do is add style. PHP frameworks are for bigger sites, and really a CMS is really for a school or organization who have several people adding content from different PC's located not in the same building.
 
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Hi, sorry about the delay, but been away on business the last couple of days. I did, however take a look at the 'simple web development environment' thing you mentioned, but having looked into it, I can see that it means becoming proficient in html, which I can sort of get my head round at a very basic level, but to learn enough to put a website together I see as a hell of a slog. Things you make sound simple like adding style are a total mystery to me & having conquered that there is the little matter of getting pages & sub pages to link together, settting navigation, setting layouts, columns, etc, plus of course, making the website accessible via its url.
What I have done, is download a programme called KompoZer, which seems to have pretty good reviews & which also allows me to 'play around' with a website on my PC, prior to launching it onto X10, so I think I'll try that out.
So, for the time being my website is back up & running, but not with X10, which is what I'd really like. Getting it to work though, seems a real problem, so maybe I start work on a new one using CompoZer & then upload that when it's ready.
Your help really has been appreciated though & I thank you for your time, interest & efforts - THANKYOU!
 
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