Hi.
Recently purchased the Platinum package here.
I'm a complete beginner at this to be honest. I previously had a basic hosting package with 123Reg and registered my first domain name with them and purchased webspace for it.
When it came to uploading my finished
website hosting, it was just a case of either using their control panel or as I am at present using Namo Web Editor, just going to "Publish Site" within it, whacking the ftp details in for 123Reg and away you go.
Now, I appreciate that this hosting package is far more powerful and complex and thats where I'm falling over.
So if anyone can help me out on some very basic questions I would appreciate it.
Here we go.....
So......I've got a
website hosting ready to publish and upload.
Its sat on my hard drive in my "My Documents" folder. For the sake of argument its in a folder called "Robins".
I go to my cPanel and go to the file manager, create a file called "Website1" and click on "Upload file". I select the "Robins" folder containing the
website hosting and upload it to the "Website1" folder.
I also have CuteFTP and have tried doing it via this as well.
Anyway, it uploads ok and its there in my File Manager screen.
The
website hosting in the "Robins" folder, now in the "Website1" folder is called www. indagatio.co.uk
The domain has been registered with 123Reg.
And here's where the newbie question comes in.
Its registered as a domain name ( with 123Reg ), its uploaded to my hosting here but when I type in www. indagatio.co.uk, it takes me to the 123Reg
website hosting and tells me that the name has already been registered by a user. It does not show me the
website hosting.
So I'm guessing I'm missing a HUGE chunk here and I'm not doing something that I
should be doing. I'm also guessing that its something to do with pointing the DNS at the hosting etc?. I need advice on that also if thats the case.
I have went into my cPanel and "Parked" the domain of indagatio.co.uk there. I notice it tells me that domain names need to be registered ( which it is ) and also:-
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In addition, they will not be functional unless they are configured to point to our DNS servers.
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How do I go about doing that, in plain English??!!!.
To be honest, what I am looking for is not only snippets of advice on all of the above, but ideally if someone could take me through the whole thing from start to finish as far as getting a folder on my hard drive with the relevant html files in it, uploaded to my hosting here and then going through the steps to getting it up and running so that when I type in www. indagatio.co.uk to my browser, it pops up with my
website hosting.
I realise that these are all very basic questions and some of you may well be thinking "What the hell!!!......this guy is a complete idiot!!!". But then we all have to start somewhere, dont we???.....LOL!!!.
I would seriously appreciate the assistance. I've been banging my head of my desk for hours now and its getting me nowhere.
Many thanks in advance for any replies.
Gaz.