I've added some formatting code to your post to make it easier to follow; without it the URLs were all shortened so as to be unreadable.
Sorry I never used a forum before and assumed that having got an answer from someone there was no point pestering this person again.
You're pestering (your choice of words, not mine) the same people either way. Ifa thread is in the wrong location one of the forum administrators will move it.
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I had set it up as a new domain in Direct Admin and the index.html is just the simple html file that Direct Admin sets up. I want to install Drupal and try some experimental stuff before pointing the domain to it. The problem is that I cannot see it in a browser. There is no system such as Drupal or WP installed on the main domain so it cannot be that. There is also no .htaccess file.
And if there were a .htaccess file it still wouldn't help you preview the site.
I think this must be a problem that other people encounter as how would people test a new site before launch?
The right way to test a site is to change the host file on your local machine (desktop?/laptop?) so that when you type the domain name in your browser it will resolve locally to the right IP# even before DNS is pointed to it.
The host file is in different places, depending on your local OS.
Apple OS X? Linux? BSD?
On any of these you need to edit the file at /etc/hosts
Windows? You'll need to look it up, as there are many different version of Windows and it's been moved between different places over the years.
Once you've edited the file your browser should see your site at whatever IP# you've put into the hosts file, if all else is correct.
I can see the target file in ftp at sftp://root@####.eu/home/admin/domains/#####.com/public_html/index.html
the part of the above line starting at the word
/home is the
absolute path to the file. That's where the file actually resides on your server (well not really, but it's the way we humans look at it).
In SSH the pwd is /home/admin/domains/###.com
Which is the same.
(And while I'm at it, I'll take a break to remind you that when you ftp as root you expose your root password in open text, which is never a good idea as anyone who has your root login password can shell into your server and delete the entire system (including the operating system) in less than ten keystrokes.)
But it's not the same as what apache sees.
Have tried:
Code:
http://www.###.eu/home/admin/domains/###.com/public_html/index.html
http://www.###.eu/home/admin/domains/###.com/index.html
http://www.###.eu/home/admin/domains/###.com
http://www.###.eu/###.com/public_html/index.html
http://www.###.eu/###.com/index.html
http://www.###.eu/###.com
http://www.###.eu/domains/###.com/public_html/index.html
http://www.###.eu/domains/###.com
http://www.###.eu/home/domains/###.com/public_html/index.html
these all give Internal Server Error
As they should, because these paths don't exist inside the default path used by http protocol. And I'm not telling you where that is because if I did you'd likely try to change it, and then no one will ever see any of your sites. Just use the hosts file, as I noted above.
http://www.###.eu works
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Then why are you asking
?
Jeff
