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[Abyssinian02]

Hello everyone,

Though I've worked with DA for a while now, I'm fairly new to subdomains. I want to have a website on my main domain, and have a webshop on my subdomain. So I create a subdomain; shop.mywebsite.com and then use Filezilla to transfer the entire webshop software. Once that's done I go to the link and all it shows is "This is a placeholder for the subdomain shop.mywebsite.com" What do I do now? I tried deleting the index.html but that just left me with a blank page. The same happened when I tried to manually install Joomla onto another subdomain by transferring it with Filezilla.

What do I have to do? I've searched around, but there's no clear anwser to be found :/

Thanks in advance for any help!

 

[SeLLeRoNe]

thats curios, have you uploaded the joomla in the right directory? Did you upload with the user that own the subdoain? Have you tryed to reach directly a file where you uploaded the files? (ex. /index.php)

Regards

 

[Abyssinian02]

Well, you pointed me in the right direction. After installing fresh Joomla 1.7 and webshop software and deleting index.html, both now work. I suspect that the webshop software I had was either incomplete or just outdated and what went wrong with Joomla is most likely the fact that I tried to copy an old Joomla 1.5 website onto a new website.

It took my some time to figure out, but your advice did help. Thanks!!

 

[nobaloney]

The simplest reason is usually the right reason (Occam's Razor [wikipedia.org]).

The index.html file overrides any other index file. No doubt removing it first would have given you a working website.

Jeff