Noob needs Help :( I'm so confused

[MJDalton]

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:


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

[kh99]

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?

[MJDalton]

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

[kh99]

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.

[Max Taxable]

Originally Posted by kh99

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.

[MJDalton]

Originally Posted by kh99

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.

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.

Originally Posted by Max Taxable

The wayback machine could verify that I suspect.

You are correct kind sir!!!


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[Max Taxable]

Originally Posted by MJDalton

You are correct kind sir!!!

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