So recently for a local business I made them a website. The old one was terrible. I got everything uploaded ok, but I can't figure one thing out... If I go to www.kollmanappliance.net it is the old, ugly site. If I go to www.kollmanappliance.net/kollman.html it is the new site. So... A. How do I set this website to automatically go to the new HTML page? B. How do I edit the old page to be a splash page or autodirect to the new site? (I was told www.kollmanappliance.net was made with frontpage and I needed to redo that.) Any help would be appreciated and thanks in advance!!!
Hey, What the browers looks for when you type in a web address is the index file. in your case it would index.html. if you open up your ftp client, you will see a file called index.html, this file is what www.kollmanappliance.net points to. Also in your ftp you will see a file called kollman.html (the html file you created) all you need to do is rename the .html file that you created to index.html. make sure that you do not over write your current index file. change the name of your current index file to something else like splash.html before you rename the file you coded. if not you will lose the old site. hope this helps
So I did what you suggested. Renamed the file to index.html & uploaded all of it. But still the same dilemma. The problem is I can't access it FTP. I have to use Microsoft Expression and upload it as a webdav file. If I had FTP access this would probably be a lot easier.
you might have ftp access. download a ftp client and put in your expression user and pass along with the ip of the ftp server and try and log in. there is no other way. unless you do it via ssh shell