Web hosting with web-mania.

[wanleg]

You would be responsible for the mapping.

Actually I may have told a lie on this one....maybe only web mania can do the mapping you require. If you have e-mailed them which folders you want the particular domains pointed at they should be able to sort it from there.

Now that, if one ignores the dislexia of the writer which is a common problem with clever computer people

Probably from Poland....an ex plumber

There seems to be an anomality

Your sentence is anomalous

Any ideas?

You should be sorted on the back of your e-mail....the ISP should do the mapping for you.

 

[Agile]

Now that, if one ignores the dislexia of the writer which is a common problem with clever computer people

Probably from Poland....an ex plumber

According to a lady at one of the universities who specialises in EU workers in the UK, there are MORE Polish people employed in IT than as plumbers!

Actually I think that is probably misleading because the key word may be "employed". Most IT workers will be employed whereas many Polish plumbers will be classed as self employed because thats very common in the building industry. The stupid UK Government only keeps data on employed people!

I will look in the sub domain section and see if that helps.

Its taking so long to get any replies/action from the ISP that I dont have so much faith in a speedy resolution! Their live help chat did not know what the problem was and just suggested I delete and re-enter the domains.

I will let you know the outcome!

Thanks

Tony

 

[wanleg]

"""We are sorry for the delay, we have checked your all account and fount that your account are not map the folder, Please provide me domain name and folder name, so that we can map your account."""

The above rather suggests that if you create the folders then e-mail them details of which domain you want pointed at which folder they will do the mapping for you.

If you do get what you want then £24.99 per annum is very very cheap for 5 websites.

Poles in IT, as if the market wasn't flooded enough with kids leaving Uni demanding a high salary cause they programmed in Pascal !

 

[Agile]

I re-sent my email to them each day for the last three days and have at last got a sensible sounding reply which asks for security details ( most of which are in her email already! ):-

"""We have checked your account for the username "******* " , found that you are having hosting account with us. You can host 5 domains in one hosting account. By default all the addon domains point to the main domain. If you want to have separate web site to each of the addon domain then once you add the addon domain from your control panel it takes about 3 hours to setup. There after you will need to create a folder associated to the addon domain and upload the folders in your account. Please let us know the folder associated to domain, so we will map the addon domain to the said folder and you will have separate web site for your domains."""

So it is possible but because I cannot do it myself its quite a pain! I suppose thats the consequence of cheap hosting! You would have thought they would have been very hot on customer service to enhance their image. The total idiot on their live chat did not even know about the need to do the mapping! I now know more than he does!

So shortly we may be live on all five domains!

Its a little worrying that in searching for info I have come across horific stories about the hosting capacity being grossly inadequate from this firm. Emails bounced because of no server access capacity etc. not just for the odd occasion but for hours at a time!

Thanks.

Tony

 

[wanleg]

Its a little worrying that in searching for info I have come across horific stories about the hosting capacity being grossly inadequate from this firm. Emails bounced because of no server access capacity etc. not just for the odd occasion but for hours at a time!

Lack of sufficient bandwidth and resilience is how companies like this can offer a service like this for such a low price. To put it in perspective the company I work for pays around £10 per month for 10MB of webspace...this includes the pointing of a single domain....addition domain pointing is charged at £1 per month...e-mail forwarding on top of that.

If your not getting the service you were promised then I guess you can take your complaint up with OFTEL...I found OFTEL to be very good when I once didn't receive the mobile phone coverage I was promised at my home postcode, I had a senior person from the network provider call me to arrange an early contract termination.

Looks like your gonna get sorted....well done for persevering, i'm sure many others have handed over cash and just given up.

 

[Agile]

After two people there who seemed to want to just procrastinate and not deal with the problem with a malicious intent at last I found someone called Simon who mapped the remaining domains to the relevant folders.

The two first ones are now working fine with a single page and I test access regularly from the toolbar and they always come up quickly. I can therefore confirm that eventually after a week it is possible to host five different domains with Web-mania for £24.99 p.a.

I dont want to bother anyone too much but is there any website listing a simple "how to" about web site file management?

The folder for one of my domains has four pages, one of them I have called index.htm as I thought web access defaulted to that name but it doesn't and just comes up with a list of the files. What else should I call it do do that?

Thanks for help.

Tony

 

[OllieN]

I'm not 100% sure but I believe different browsers may look at different pages. My hosting came with at least 3 default pages:

index.html
index.htm
default.htm

all of which I set the content to be my index page. I'll have a scan tonight when I get home to see if there are any others but if you have those 3 it should be fine for most browsers

 

[Doc Lenny]

The two first ones are now working fine with a single page and I test access regularly from the toolbar and they always come up quickly.Tony

Are these looking at the index.htm file by default

I dont want to bother anyone too much but is there any website listing a simple "how to" about web site file management?

Loads of stuff online about good website file management just google it - some info here (PDF) about what you're experiencing below with some basic info.

The folder for one of my domains has four pages, one of them I have called index.htm as I thought web access defaulted to that name but it doesn't and just comes up with a list of the files. What else should I call it do do that?

Have you got a link? Browsers look at the index file by default.

 

[stevesey]

I'm not 100% sure but I believe different browsers may look at different pages. My hosting came with at least 3 default pages:

index.html
index.htm
default.htm

all of which I set the content to be my index page. I'll have a scan tonight when I get home to see if there are any others but if you have those 3 it should be fine for most browsers

It's the web server that is configured to look for the default page as index.htm/index.html etc if no file is specified.

Tony - a list of files will often be the default if the web server is not finding an index.htm etc file. So try specificing www.<website>\index.htm from you browser if you get an error then the server isn't finding the file there so something must be set-up wrong. You didn't mention if the other three sites are working fine - if so look for anything different about these three.

 

[Agile]

I am not exactly sure what I have done but I have now got it looking INTO the index.htm file!

Trouble is its not showing it as a web page but only a page with masses of formatting information. Any ideas whats wrong?

I have made up the page with Word and used the save as option to make the web page.

There are three or four options for saving. Can anyone explain what is the difference between the available options?

Tony

 

[OllieN]

Do you want to paste the website address on here so we can take a look at how the page is coming up and check the HTML source that word is generating?

 

[stevesey]

Sounds like an error in the HTML so that the broswer can't interpret it (or doesn't even realise it's a web page) and is just displaying the plain HTML.

Does the same thing happen if you open the index.htm file in internet explorer on your own PC?

Any chance you can post the URL for this site, so we can see?

 

[stevesey]

Tony

Agilepumping is saved as XML not HTML? Try regenerating as HTML - that might help.

Steve

 

[stevesey]

Tony

In Word when you do Save As choose "Web Page" rather than "Single File Web Page" that will get the pages laid out propertly (like they look in Word).

Also were you planning to put anything in the root directory - perhaps a simple re-direct to one of the other sites?

Cheers

Steve