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April 25, 2010 123 hosting 2 Comments

i have made a website using WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) web builder and i would like to get it onto the internet. i have bought the domain name i want to use. how do i get the site on there?
the site that i bought the domain name off and is supposed to host the site is www.123-reg.co.uk if that helps!
any help is much appreaciated =]
i have a hosting package with 123-reg.co.uk where do i find the script?

When you purchased a domain and hosting package, they already provide you a CPanel username and password, you need to create and FTP account so that you can upload your files through FTP(File Transfer Protocol). But, you should name your home page as index.html to view the homepage your site. If you have trouble solving the domain name and hosting then you should call an 24×7 Technical support outsourcing staff to aid you.

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Can a php extension be removed?

April 14, 2010 123 hosting 2 Comments

123 reg is hosting my website.i’m using the file manager to upload the website. it says the first page has to be index.htm or index.html. so i renamed the file to that. it is a php file and so when i upload the file, it’s called index.html.php. can i get rid of the extension name? all i need is index.html. what can i do to fix this? it also asks whether it should be uploaded as text or binary. *confusion* plz help!

index.php works fine so you don’t need to change anything. Just upload it as index.php

The browser will look for an htm or html file first but as long as your only index file is the .php it will then go to that.

i would suggest downloading ace3ftp from the link below. It’s free and makes uploading your sites a doddle. It decides how to upload automatically…

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Uploading a Favicon to my charity website?

April 9, 2010 123 hosting 3 Comments

Ok I have created a favicon and saved it as favicon.ico in pictures on my computer.
the website I have www.aid4egypt.co.uk is hosted by 123.reg so I don’t have access to certain things but I can edit etc and add HTML codes on pages with their sitebuilder.
I have tried the code below but it does not seem to work any suggestions?
<html>
<head> <LINK REL="SHORTCUT ICON" HREF="http://www.aid4egypt.co.uk/favicon.ico">

</head>
</html>

<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/x-icon" href="/favicon.ico">

in the head section.

do not forget to upload the icon to your root directory.

Favicons do not always appear immediatly, they can take a few hours to show up.

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Do I need a web hosting package to make my own website as well as a domain?

April 6, 2010 123 hosting 16 Comments

I’m new to web design and have very little background knowledge so bear with me!
I’m making a web comic and I know I need to buy a domain name but do I also have to pay for a hosting package as well?

If I need a hosting package I’m not sure what features I’ll need. Each of my comics is about 12 pages of A4 and so far I have around 10 comics finished. Does anybody have any idea how much memory I would need? I don’t need a mailbox on the website as far as I know, but would this be helpful?

I’ve looked on 123-reg.co.uk but I’m still a bit baffled.
Any help would be greatly appreciated :)

Yes, you need both a domain name and hosting.

I recommend one of these: http://www.tophostingpicks.com

iPage has the best offer right now.
Their standard price is £59.40/year (£4.95) but they have
a promotion currently, one year of hosting for £23.88.

Their plan includes:

Unlimited disk space
Unlimited bandwidth
Free domain name
(supports .co.uk or .com and a lot more)

Price: £23.88/year (£1.99)

They have one of the most popular hosting platforms, which currently hosts over a million websites. They’re also one of the oldest hosting companies, founded in 1998.

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How many web sites can be uploaded within a host server package?

March 23, 2010 123 hosting 5 Comments

Hi
I am about to subcribe to 123-reg buying a domain name and a internet hosting service. My question may seem rather basic but I’m afaid I need clarification if possible.
I intend to use my website for selling products such as e-books, CD’s etc. What I am unsure about is whether I can have several/many different websites within the one package supplied by the host server? In other words I anticipate selling a variety of products but the website supporting each one would need to be different ie promoting each individual product.
Also, has anyone else used 123-reg and would recommend them?

123-reg doesn’t seem to allow hosting of multiple websites/domains under the same account.

If you want to create multiple websites under the same account (at no additional price other than the domain name registration fee) I recommend one of these http://www.webhostingtable.com

Fatcow has the best offer among them.
Their standard price is $88/year
but they have the 50% sale right now.

Disk space: Unlimited
Bandwidth: Unlimited
A Free domain name
Unlimited domains and subdomains

Price: $44/year

They’re one of the oldest hosting companies, founded 1998, they’re also one of the largest, currently hosting about 500,000 websites.
Their hosting plan includes a web builder, so you can create your site just by drag and drop (without any programming), or you could install Wordpress (easy, one click install from their control panel), choose a theme that you like, and start adding content. Or you can install osCommerce and create an online store.

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Does this sound like a good web host?

March 22, 2010 123 hosting No Comments

www.123-reg.co.uk

I’ve made a basic website and I want to put it online.
Hey Wolf. If you happen to come across this question again can you email me and tell me why you think Streamline.net is your recommendation. Just that I’ve heard some pretty shitty reviews.

I’ve never used them as a web-host as I always thought they were a little bit expensive.

However, the cheap hosts do go broke quite frequently where as 123-reg have been partnered with webfusion hosting for a long while now.

Incidentally, 123-reg is mainly a domain registrar (and a very good one too) however their minimum registration period is now 2 years – It used to be one (and thus cheap).

Good honest company – have done secure transactions with them many times.

J

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Help with .htaccess and .htpasswd…. Desperate now!!?

March 19, 2010 123 hosting 4 Comments

Hi

Ok, I am trying to make a member’s area on my website, using .htaccess file and a .htpasswd file…. I am hosted with 123-reg, but they don’t seem to have a CLUE how to sort out my problem….

Basically, I have made the files, troubleshooted EVERY aspect of every line of everyfile, I’ve made sure the permissions are correct, basically everything that I can think of is sorted. However, when I go onto the page that i am trying to protect, I get this error message:

"Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, support@123-reg.co.uk and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

——————————————————————————–

Apache Server at www.kyds.org.uk Port 80"

And it is driving me completly INSANE!!!!!!!

If anybody can offer any advice (preferably somebody who knows what they are doing!!!) I would be really, really grateful!!

Thanks!
Content of .htaccess file (located in directory I want to protect)

AuthUserFile/public_html/.htpasswd
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthName secure
AuthType Basic

require user mickeymouse

order allow,deny
allow from all

Content of .htpasswd file

mickeymouse:Zm4YIMLOCjYto

Cannot use PHP as the server does not support it, which I found out AFTER paying !!!!

Thanks for responses so far, will look on the tips and tricks websites…
Oh and permissions are RWXR-XR-X

Try this: http://corz.org/serv/tricks/
And an .htaccess ‘generator’ here: http://corz.org/serv/tricks/htaccesser/index.php

As an afterthought, have you thought about using a log in script such as php my log in? It’s available free if you google it, and basically you enter a bit of php code to the top of pages you want password protected.

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Web server will not release my domain to new server

March 18, 2010 123 hosting 4 Comments

I signed up to 123-reg in January (paid for 2 years in advance) now my web designer has told me to move to Hosting U K because of scripting problems, did this 25th July but even after asking 123 very nicely to release my site nothing happens, and they do not reply to my emails. Any one know what to do?

Have you set up the new hosting account with Hosting UK? If not then you or your web designer needs to do that.

First of all make sure you have a back up of your website from your web designer. Once the new hosting account is set up you need upload your website to the new hosting account (or get your web designer to do it) and ask Hosting UK for the nameserver and registrar tag so you can login to 123reg and initiate the domain transfer. In the 123reg control panel go to the domain name section and look for change nameserver. Change the nameservers first NOT the registrar tag. When you have changed the nameservers wait 48 hours and check the Whois to see the nameservers have indeed changed. You can check whois for:

‘.com’ at http://www.internic.net/whois.html
.co.uk’ at http://www.nominet.org.uk/other/whois

Once you can see the nameservers are set to Hosting UK you can then go back to 123reg and alter the registrar tag. Once this is done send Hosting UK a e-mail to let them know this has all been done.

Your domain name should be sorted within 48 hours if you do this correctly. Although I would not advise you to carry out this unless you are completely confident. Ask your web designer – they really should sort this out for you. Or ask Hosting UK – they may help you if you have set up hosting with them.

If the domain is definitely in your name (check the whois as mentioned above) and you have no luck with sorting it out like that the last resort is to go to internic:

http://www.internic.net/problem_reports/p3.html

or nominet:

http://www.nominet.org.uk/disputes/

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I’ve bought the domain name but finding it difficult to build a site – Help required!!?

March 15, 2010 123 hosting 5 Comments

I bought a domain name from 123-reg, it says you can use their free InstantSite to build a website, which is great as its my first website, but i cant seem to use it properly and am wondering if i can build a website using different software or method which is preferably free (it doesnt matter if its on or offline) and then would i be able to upload that onto 123-reg’s hosting? I have used HTML before on sites such as MySpace, so im not worried at all if i have to use code. I have looked at freewebs to create a site, and they seem to have everything that i require, both to create a site and also to host, would i be able to use freewebs to create and host my website and if yes, how do i do it?
Or would it be best to create a redirection link from a basic 123-reg InstantSite which has my original domain name to a freewebs site (which has a freewebs domain in it!), so that i get what i want on the website!?

God forbid you use horrid software like Word or Frontpage to build sites. I shiver just at thinking about the results. I rather use EMACS (you might not get the joke if you are not familiar with the UNIX Editors War), or worse, Notepad. If you wish to use a good editor, go for Dreamweaver, or if you like free software, Bluefish is also good. Eclipse with the proper plugins (Aptana) will also help you.

I rather do HTML by code, and then use the w3c validator found at http://validator.w3.org/ to check my work. Yes, I like to be HTML 4.01 compliant.

Best suggestion I can give you, read over the HTML and CSS standards, then use them. It will help you make wonders.

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is my website uploaded? ftp, webhosting, confused…?

March 13, 2010 123 hosting 10 Comments

okay, i’m not sure if this is a really stupid question, but i know nothing about websites.

basically, i recently bought a domain name and webhosting from 123-reg. i finished my website and attempted to upload the files using ftp as 123-reg advised using both dreamweaver and filezilla, but had connection problems with both. i then downloaded classicftp from the apple website and had no problem connecting, and uploaded all the relevant files.

now when i go to my hosting account on 123-reg and log into the file manager, all the files appear. so my question is what do i do now? is that it? do i have to do anything else? or will it just appear at my domain name after a while?

again, i apologise if this is a stupid question but i’m really confused..
thank you for any help. :]
the address is www.madiillustration.co.uk and no, it doesn’t show up when i go there but would it appear immediately or would it take a while?
yes, i bought the domain name and hosting together and i do have an index.html page

If you bought the domain name and hosting at the same time from the same company, the domain name should be pointing to the site. If you can’t see the site when you go to it, you probably don’t have a default page (default.htm,. default.html, index.htm or index.html – the site may also be set up for .php default pages).

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