Hi all, I'm new to the site and new the design community; I hope you guys can help me with my problems. I apologize in advance if I don't state the question clear enough. I'm not sure where to post this, so I posted it in two places, I aplogize in advance if this is troublesome to any admins.... My question is, I have to move a website that I would like to move to a new server. I've copied all of the files on the current server and switched them over to the new server. This is the part I'm not familiar with, so please bare with me as I've never worked with asp files before...My problem is, I currently have an "asp" file as the "index" (index.aspx), for this website. After I've copied all of the old files onto the new server and tried to access the website using a web browser, I get an error message that says "FORBIDDEN. You tried to access a document for which you don't have privileges." How would I go about fixing this? What would I need to do? This website has eCommerce on it, but we plan on updating the eCommerce’s using another company. I just want to the site to get up and running just like it was before on the old server.... Has anyone run into this problem before? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for your help.
I think its becouse of directory index pages. You must configure your webserver to thinks that index.aspx is a index page for your webpage. A quick solution for your problem: You can redirect your visitors to index.aspx by using a index.html page ... Look meta tag refresh in google...
It sounds to me like there are file(s) that the webserver is trying to access, but the wrong permissions are set on them and the webserver "user" cannot access them. You might have to ask your host to chmod the files to the correct permission. Not too familiar with IIS myself - are you on Windows or Linux?
I will try to contact the server company and see what they can do. I'm not sure what server I'm on, I believe it's Linux.... I'm using the 1and1 server listed below. htttp:// order.1and1.com/xml/order/ HostingDev;jsessionid=BB2030BAA21A0FAA9FCE18E743FD2C3A.TC61b?__frame=_top&__lf=Static Would this be the best ideal? I'm not sure what chmod is...? These might be a noobish question, and I do aplogize for that.... Can someone tell me what "use a 301 redirect" means? Thanks for everyone's respones soo far! I really apprecaite it guys! Please keep them coming, if anyone else has any other inputs...