By ablebakercharlie on

I'm on Network Solutions. I used their canned Drupal install, which put my site at http://02eb861.netsolhost.com/drupal . I built it, themed it, got it ready to go. Went to point the domain at it. Did that, it works, at www.hollandcivictheatre.org . If you type it in a browser the page loads and everything works, except:

The address bar instantly reverts to http://02eb861.netsolhost.com/drupal/ for all the pages on the site

Of course I want it to say http://www.hollandcivictheatre.org/

HOW?

I read stuff here I found by searching. I tried changing $base url thing in settings.php but that just broke the site. It is set now (as it was in the first place before I messed with it) to the 02eb861 url.

Please help.

Ed

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hershel’s picture

hershel commented

Hard to say without examining the setup for this hosting account. It could be they setup some sort of redirect. I would suggest you contact the host for support.

ablebakercharlie’s picture

ablebakercharlie commented

their tech support says its a configuration thing inside drupal. They also have a hands-off policy when it comes to touching any of your files for configuration issues...

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Antiquitties commented

Hi!

Can you check if you renamed htaccess to .htaccess and check these lines:

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^hollandcivictheatre\.org$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.hollandcivictheatre.org/$1 [L,R=301]

RewriteBase /

I would comment the $base_url in the settings file.

It might be a problem with how you deployed drupal. See here: http://forums.networksolutions.com/domain-and-directory-pointers-f49-ns-...

Tom,

I have a similar issue, but realized recently that when you first add an application you are given a choice as to which domain your app will be installed on. Needless to say I didn't do this. Guess the only thing to do is add a new app under the correct domain and start from scratch.

Mario

Valentin

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ablebakercharlie commented

Thanks for the suggestions.. before I rename htaccess, which htaccess do you mean? (in htdocs, cgi-bin, drupal, etc?)

I deployed it using their canned install, to the long stupid url, because I wanted to build it before the domain was pointed to it. If NS thinks its users should build sites live, or start over, they are just a little nuts. I don't have time to start over.

Thanks for the help, though.

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hershel commented

Should be the one in htdocs I would think.

You could potentially backup the DB and your custom files, reinstall Drupal and then restore the DB and the files. Then your content should return.

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