Noob needs Help :( I'm so confused
 

OK, so here's the deal..

I am a little out of my element here. I'm a Systems/SAN Engineer and have very little experience with code or websites.

I'm not sure how this happened but I believe I have broken First page access to our forum. I wasn't the person who initially set up this site. I inherited it after purchasing it.

OK to the meat of the issue;

Roughly 3 weeks ago something changed and for the life of me I can't figure it out.

What used to happen was one would enter www.texasnissans.com and would hit this page:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2012/03/14.jpg

The logo was a link to http://texasnissans.com/tx/forums

If you type in www.texasnissans.com you now receive this:

I have verified that the enterlogo is still on the server.
I have viewed the index.php to see if there is any place I can recreate a redirect from the Logo page to the forums.

I can tell you that if you go to www.texasnissans.net, www.texasnissans.org or http://texasnissans.com/tx/forums you hit the correct page.

We as a forum have decided to install vBAdvanced. I have two test sites that I am working on that appear to be working properly. I still have a lot of work to do on these test sites like page links and final page layout. They are http://demo.texasnissans.com and http://test.texasnissans.com

If anyone can provide me with so much needed advise and education I would truly be grateful.

Thank You
Mike

Looking at the dns, I find that .net and .org go to a different ip address than .com, are you sure it's ending up on the same server?

Yes, they are on the same server. The IP's are different because they are being forwarded from GoDaddy to texasnissans.com/tx/forums

The IP address you are getting is GoDaddy's.

Thanks for the suggestion

OK, but I think that answers that question - .org and .net are being redirected to www.texasnissans.com/tx/forums, but www.texasnissans.com is not so it just shows what you have in your root directory.

My guess would be that there used to be a file called index.htm in the root directory (if there isn't one, it will display the list of files like you see), and that it was just a static html page with that image and the "Enjoy the ride" message.

The wayback machine could verify that I suspect.

Thank You so much for the help. I did have a system that would hit the page the old way. Got to love Firefox and the "View Page Source" feature. I was able to copy the old code and recreate a new index.htm!!! I had my Wife test the link since her PC had never hit that page.

You are correct kind sir!!!:D


The thread can be closed as Solved :)

Wayback Machine can be a handy tool in the right hands....