Thread: Publishing A Subdomain

Hi, I have created a subdomain to my main site and am ready to publish.
Do i need to set up an FTP account using my main vodahost username and password in order to publish?
Can anyone advise please.
Tony www.auto-lotto-wins.com

To publish your pages to your "sub domain" you have created you publish in the normal way your blue voda page, but instead you publish to public_html/nameofsubdomain

You then retrieve your page via ... http://www.nameofsubdomain.nameofdom...ameofpage.html


This provided it is not an "Add On" Domain - the difference being that you would have purchased the domain name for an Add-On or simply created free the subdomain name as part of your main account ....

Hi LadyEye, yeh that's what i thought. I'm doing it correctly i think but i keep getting an error message saying "The request to connect and log on to the FTP server could not be completed because the supplied password is incorrect. I haven't changed anything in the "Publish web page" box. So i don't understand why it won't work.
In the "Publish web page" box. What IP address do i select from the drop down box. My first page is ----40 and my second page is ---41. So i select the 41 right?
Any Ideas
Tony

Originally Posted by anthony.attridge@btintern

Hi LadyEye, yeh that's what i thought. I'm doing it correctly i think but i keep getting an error message saying "The request to connect and log on to the FTP server could not be completed because the supplied password is incorrect. I haven't changed anything in the "Publish web page" box. So i don't understand why it won't work.
In the "Publish web page" box. What IP address do i select from the drop down box. My first page is ----40 and my second page is ---41. So i select the 41 right?
Any Ideas
Tony

I always do my publishing to my first server ip number, and this shouldn't change for you - so use the one you normally publish to - you don't need to change it for the sub-domain ... but after the public_html add the name of the subdomain to publish to ... like you have been ...

Connecting to your ftp should be the same username and password that you connect to your control panel with ... so untick remember, and close it, open it again and type in these passwords, or copy and paste carefully from your welcome email and all should be good ....

Hi LadyEye,
Many thanks.Did as you suggested and it worked a treat.
One thing though it is aligned right and so is my first page. I have reduced the page width to 800 and checked the centre in browser box. But it refuses to budge.
Any Ideas
Thanks again
Tony

I find you really need to begin building top left and as close to the left as you can, and then keep all elements of the page, borders and all, within the '800 mark ... if anything goes beyond, it throws the page off ...

try doing that and see what happens ... cause I see too it is not centered .... as you are building everything appears to the left, but not when you preview if you do it this way .....

Glad the other is sorted ... :)

Hi LadyEYE,
both sites successfully centred and looking good.
What would be the web address of my second site?
My main site is www.auto-lotto-wins.com and my subdomain is
e-lottery-syndicate. I tried typing it two different ways in my browser but niether worked?
Thanks again for your help
Tony

http://www.e-lottery-syndicate.auto-...ameofpage.html

But I don't see your main site as being centered http://www.auto-lotto-wins.com/ ... and without the name of the page you created, it is difficult to find your page ...

What did you name your page?

I do see a page coming up here ... http://www.e-lottery-syndicate.auto-lotto-wins.com/

Ok, I think i finally have the main site centred now
www.auto-lotto-wins.com the name of the page in my subdomain is
play-the-game. so do i enter
www.e-lottery-syndicate.auto-lotto-wins.com/play-the-game ?

Originally Posted by anthony.attridge@btintern

Ok, I think i finally have the main site centred now
www.auto-lotto-wins.com the name of the page in my subdomain is
play-the-game. so do i enter
www.e-lottery-syndicate.auto-lotto-wins.com/play-the-game ?

If you have named a page as index, and saved it on your computer in it's own independent file folder (so as not to overwrite your existing index page for your other domain)possibly called subdomain or e-lottery-syndicate then the link should be http://www.e-lottery-syndicate.auto-lotto-wins.com

If you have named the page play-the-game the link should be
http://www.e-lottery-syndicate.auto-...-the-game.html

You will need to publish this page to the subdomains directory which should be public_html/e-lottery-syndicate


I am not finding this, and I still don't see your page as centered

?

I am finding the page now but it looks like the two pages are somehow overlapping. Maybe i did something wrong when seting up the subdomain or naming it. Is there a way i can save the new page but reset the settings for it. The new page contains flash banners and the e-lottery movie in wmv. format. Could the problem be something to do with streaming difficulties? My main page is showing as centred now.
Tony

I dunno what you have done exactly, but your subdomain appears to be just a folder and not a subdomain..

http://www.auto-lotto-wins.com/e-lot...ate/index.html

did you use the cpanel to create it, or did you just ADD a folder?

Karen

Hi Karen,
I did use the control panel. But i wasn't really sure what i was doing.
Should i try to delete it and start over?
Tony

Yes, but use the SUBDOMAIN button in the control panel, dont use the file manager to just add a folder. Either that or you published your main index to the sub index.

Karen

Hi,
I definately have the subdomain set up in the control panel so i think you might be right about having published my main index to the sub index.
Any ideas as to how i can correct this?
Tony

Hi Karen/LadyEye,
Does the first page of a subdomain still have to be named index? If so this is where i've gone wrong. If not I'm flumuxed :(
Tony

Originally Posted by anthony.attridge@btintern

Hi Karen/LadyEye,
Does the first page of a subdomain still have to be named index? If so this is where i've gone wrong. If not I'm flumuxed :(
Tony

Hi there ... you can have a page called index with your sub-domain, keep in mind these two things ...

1) Create a folder of it's own on your computer, located in MY DOCUMENTS<BLUEVODA - name this folder subdomain, or for that matter, the name of your subdomain

2) Publish the subdomains pages to public_html/subdomain

the url would be

http://www.subdomain.maindomain.com


Now with that being said, you do not have to have an index page in the same was as you do for a main domain or add on domain.

The sub-domain will work without an index page ...

When you have published a page other than index to your subdomain ...

the url would be

http://www.nameofsubdomain.maindomai...ameofpage.html

Remember - when naming, saving and publishing pages you do not add the .html - this is done automatically for you by blue voda ... but when you type the link (url) anywhere you add the .html

Hello again,
This one is driving me nuts, i just can't figure out what i've done wrong.
It seems to be that the subdomain is showing an unedited version of my main site. Nothing of my subdomain is showing up at all. Can you type out the exact address for me? is it this
www.e-lottery-syndicate.auto-lotto-wins.com/play-the-game
Also,could it be something to do with the redirect settings in control panel/subdomain? I left that alone as i wasn't sure about it.
Tony