By brianoneillirl on

Built my web site, localhost, ubuntu,Xampp, Drupal working perfectly. Signed up with AnHosting to host the site. Needed to get the site from local host to live host.
1) Exported and imported mysql database - no problem
2) copied Drupal to public folder on web site - no problem
3) Changed settings.php - no problem
4) When I clicked on my web domain I am still getting index.html message web site on the way

Here is where things get tricky

I could not understand how www.mydomain.com launches Drupal on the host web site. Started investigating
1) .htaccess
2) index.html or index.php

Found no information that could help me. Lot of information about porting over drupal local host to live host, but these all assume that live host was already working.

It does appear to me that there must be a way to put this on a .pdf where someone can thrash their way through it.

I have a bit of techy knowledge but am now seriously stuck. Can anyone help me with a push in the right direction.

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Comments

dman’s picture

dman commented

Issues specific to unknown hosting servers are numerous, and can't all be documented. And we are working on the web here, so documentation is not in a PDF.

You should probably go through the Checklist for migrating to a new server

Quick things that may be causing your symptoms:
- something specific to your web host that makes you think the live host is *not* "already working". You need to see your hosts support for that.
- you uploaded the files into the completely wrong folder. (experiment on your host - can you access INSTALL.txt at webroot?)
- you failed to transfer the .htaccess file when uploading. (see checklist)
- if .htaccess is there but not being used, then AllowOverride ALL may not be enabled on the host (see checklist)

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nevets’s picture

nevets commented

In the future please do not make the same post multiple times, I have deleted the duplicates.

duckzland’s picture

duckzland commented

1. check if the .htaccess is actually drupal .htaccess not the one provided by hosting
2. try moving index.html to outside of the root web dir (eg. public_html or www)
3. check where do u actually uploaded drupal (eg. public_html/drupal/ALLDRUPALFILES) then your url will be http://mysuckysite.com/drupal
4. check permission, if webserver has permission to read dir...
etc etc....

Best bet is call and bug your hosting... they know better about their server than anyone..

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