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Hi all, I really hope someone can help me please. Im currently setting up a forum for children with vision problems. Hence it is not £ related and I would ...
  1. 03-14-2008 #1
    Strabmister
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    Hi all,

    I really hope someone can help me please.

    Im currently setting up a forum for children with vision problems. Hence it is not £ related and I would appreciate some kind advice.

    I have the following :

    1. (Hosting Service / Starter Package)
    2. Domain name
    3. Ensim pro access to control panel
    4. I have installed phpbb via my tools on the control panel (my host offers it as a "power tool"
    5. An SQL DB has been set up for use with this

    I have been advised to upload any site content (which I havent even started on yet!) to /var/www/html

    I put an index.html there with a simple message, but when I visit my site I just see a blank page?

    How on earth do I make my forum visible on my Domain? How do I administer the Forum?

    Do my webpages need to be in PHP or HTML ? (Plainly speaking I just want a holding homepage with a couple of images and text, with a link to the Forum)

    Please help me....Drinks all round
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  2. 03-15-2008 #2
    yancek
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    Is your 'index.html' page written in html? If it is, you may have a missing tag somewhere which could account for it. Have you contacted your web hosting service about this problem? If you uploaded a plain text file even with the 'html' appended it should still show up as a plain text file.
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    Is index.html one of the default pages? It normally is, but still it
    is worth checking. It could also be permission related.

    I would check with the hosting company.
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  4. 03-17-2008 #4
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    Has the web site been published - which is made live on the internet?
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  5. 03-20-2008 #5
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    Just a thought... Has your zone records of your domain been forwarded to your ip address of your server?
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