Pathetic Noob Seeks Help with Webhosting

[frank]

Alright look, this is a dumb question, so lets get that out of the way.
Hopefully you will help me anyway

I have registered a domain name and, with the same company, I have acquired
a webhosting service with the same company). I have turned everyting on,
at least as far as I can tell (i.e. I've activated the hosting service as
well as the domain). I can ping my domain name, but I cannot reach it with
FTP and when I enter it's name in the browser I cannot reach it. I haven't
actuaslly uploaded anything to the site: do I have to upload a page?
(that's why I tried to FTP).

The ping tells that name resolution is working, and that the domain exists.
The rest I can't figure out.

Along the same lines: there is such an amazing amount of information out
there on websites it's a bit overwhelming. Can you point me in the
direction of a site that walks noobs through the process of creating their
own website, one that begins with, or includes, aquiring a webost?

I'm writing my stuff using Frontpage, alough I am a Frontpage noob.

Thanks,

 

[=?Windows-1252?Q?Rob_Giordano_\=28aka:_Crash_Gordo]

Sometimes it can take up to 72 hrs for domain name to propagate to all the servers. Try pinging the unfriendly domain name 123.456.789 etc.

To take full advantage of FP, hopefully you purchased hosting service that includes Frontpage Extensions (FPSE). If you have done so, you don't want to use FTP as it will wack out the extensions and make your life miserable. Using FP's Publish is how you will upload your website to the host server.

Hint one: Create a Web locally in FP, make sure you're not just creating "loose" pages. This is a common mistake.

Check on your host's site usually there is a help page that will tell you exactly how to Publish to them.

hth..



| Alright look, this is a dumb question, so lets get that out of the way.
| Hopefully you will help me anyway
|
| I have registered a domain name and, with the same company, I have acquired
| a webhosting service with the same company). I have turned everyting on,
| at least as far as I can tell (i.e. I've activated the hosting service as
| well as the domain). I can ping my domain name, but I cannot reach it with
| FTP and when I enter it's name in the browser I cannot reach it. I haven't
| actuaslly uploaded anything to the site: do I have to upload a page?
| (that's why I tried to FTP).
|
| The ping tells that name resolution is working, and that the domain exists.
| The rest I can't figure out.
|
| Along the same lines: there is such an amazing amount of information out
| there on websites it's a bit overwhelming. Can you point me in the
| direction of a site that walks noobs through the process of creating their
| own website, one that begins with, or includes, aquiring a webost?
|
| I'm writing my stuff using Frontpage, alough I am a Frontpage noob.
|
| Thanks,
| --
| hfk
| (e-mail address removed)
| MS Messenger ID: (e-mail address removed)

 

[frank]

Sometimes it can take up to 72 hrs for domain name to propagate to all the servers. Try pinging the unfriendly domain name 123.456.789 etc.

To take full advantage of FP, hopefully you purchased hosting service that includes Frontpage Extensions (FPSE). If you have done so, you don't want to use FTP as it will wack out the extensions and make your life miserable. Using FP's Publish is how you will upload your website to the host server.

Hint one: Create a Web locally in FP, make sure you're not just creating "loose" pages. This is a common mistake.

Check on your host's site usually there is a help page that will tell you exactly how to Publish to them.

hth..

Hi,

Thanks for the reply. My webhost does provide support for Frontpage
extensions, alhtough I don't know that it's configured for me at the
moment. I will check.

So Frontpage extensions takes care of relative pathnames and other things?
Makes it easier to transfer content from the local drive to the webhost?

 

[=?Windows-1252?Q?Rob_Giordano_\=28aka:_Crash_Gordo]

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| On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 14:49:13 -0700, Rob Giordano \(aka: Crash Gordon®\)
| wrote:
|
| > Sometimes it can take up to 72 hrs for domain name to propagate to all the servers. Try pinging the unfriendly domain name 123.456.789 etc.
| >
| > To take full advantage of FP, hopefully you purchased hosting service that includes Frontpage Extensions (FPSE). If you have done so, you don't want to use FTP as it will wack out the extensions and make your life miserable. Using FP's Publish is how you will upload your website to the host server.

| >
| > Hint one: Create a Web locally in FP, make sure you're not just creating "loose" pages. This is a common mistake.
| >
| > Check on your host's site usually there is a help page that will tell you exactly how to Publish to them.
| >
| > hth..
|
| Hi,
|
| Thanks for the reply. My webhost does provide support for Frontpage
| extensions, alhtough I don't know that it's configured for me at the
| moment. I will check.

Its worth it...make sure they install them (they're not always 'on' when you setup a new web service)
|
| So Frontpage extensions takes care of relative pathnames and other things?
| Makes it easier to transfer content from the local drive to the webhost?

YEP YEP...also allows you to work "live" - which is nice to do sometimes, but you shouldn't always work live.



|
| --
| hfk
| (e-mail address removed)
| MS Messenger ID: (e-mail address removed)

 

[Andrew Murray]

includes Frontpage Extensions (FPSE). If you have done so, you don't want to use
FTP as it will wack out the extensions and make your life miserable. Using FP's
Publish is how you will upload your website to the host server.

Hi,

Thanks for the reply. My webhost does provide support for Frontpage
extensions, alhtough I don't know that it's configured for me at the
moment. I will check.

So Frontpage extensions takes care of relative pathnames and other things?
Makes it easier to transfer content from the local drive to the webhost?

--

Yes, publishing in Frontpage is one of its major features. Remember to use the
http: publish mode, as FTP breaks or corrupts the server extensions. If you have
a "control panel" for your hosting service in most cases you can
activate/reactivate the extensions yourself, otherwise have your host do it.

 

[Guest]

Frank,

try godaddy.com easy easy.

Michael aka bubbles

 

[Joe S.]

Alright look, this is a dumb question, so lets get that out of the way.
Hopefully you will help me anyway

I have registered a domain name and, with the same company, I have acquired
a webhosting service with the same company). I have turned everyting on,
at least as far as I can tell (i.e. I've activated the hosting service as
well as the domain). I can ping my domain name, but I cannot reach it with
FTP and when I enter it's name in the browser I cannot reach it. I haven't
actuaslly uploaded anything to the site: do I have to upload a page?
(that's why I tried to FTP).

The ping tells that name resolution is working, and that the domain exists.
The rest I can't figure out.

Along the same lines: there is such an amazing amount of information out
there on websites it's a bit overwhelming. Can you point me in the
direction of a site that walks noobs through the process of creating their
own website, one that begins with, or includes, aquiring a webost?

I'm writing my stuff using Frontpage, alough I am a Frontpage noob.

Thanks,

Check to ensure the FrontPage extensions have been installed on your site by
the host server. Your host should have some sort of control panel that
allows you to access your host and turn various features on and off. If you
can't find or figure out the control panel, send an e-mail to their tech
support and ask them to turn on FP extensions -- be certain to tell them
which version of FP you are using -- FP98, FP2000, FP2003 -- As I understand
it there are different extensions for different FP versions.

When the extensions are turned on, use the FP "Publish" function. You
should have been required to set up a user ID and password when you signed
up for the host service. Open the web on your HD, hit Publish -- you will
be asked for the address to publish -- the address is http://mydomain.com
(or .org, .edu, .whatever); hit Okay; FP will then ask for your user ID and
password -- enter those and you should see the Publish routine take over.
If this is the first time to publish, it may take several minutes --
recently changed hosts and it took 1 hour to publish a 120MB site over a
cable connection.