Cant overide index page

[geoffb]

Hi All,

I have developed a website re-design for an estate agents, had to change the server and the connection is now good after transfer.

The problem is that when typing in the web address I still get the old homepage which is an e_agent_site page connected the company my client is running his property database off.

If I type the site and add /index.html at the end I get my index page and can navigate the rest of the website fine, the index.html page should now be the home page for the site. but by doing mysite.com up pops the old website with:

http://example.com/blar/myclient/e_agent_site.home

Any one come across this.

Geoffb

[edited by: tedster at 11:16 pm (utc) on Oct. 16, 2008]
[edit reason] switch to example.com - it cannot be owned [/edit]

[Trace]

Not sure about other web servers, maybe someone else can help you there, but in IIS, right click on your website and chose properties. In the properties window, click on the "Documents"
tab where you will find a list of default documents. Remove e_agent_site.home and add index.html

[geoffb]

Hi Trace

Thanks for the info so far, have looked to see if < my hosting > can do the same as IIS but cant see anything.

It just seems that as the website address is typed in, ie: www.example.com it is then pointed to somewhere else other than picking up the index page I have loaded onto the new server and ends up displaying old website held in this e_agent_site.home place.

New one on me.

geoffb

[edited by: tedster at 11:19 pm (utc) on Oct. 16, 2008]
[edit reason] removed specific hosting service [/edit]

[piatkow]

If I read your post correctly you have domain
www.example.com directing to old_host
and www.example.com/index.html directing to new_host
Correct?

Have you done the really basic checks and made sure you aren't looking at cache?

[geoffb]

Hi Piatkow,

It's funny you should say that, as last night I found out just that, I was viewing the cache version stored on HD, I found out when I took a look at the website using a different browser and there it was, the new website, it was then I realized.

Simple mistake, another one to learn from.

geoffb

[piatkow]

Its easy enough to forget that the browser doesn't understand that all the variants of a site name refer to the same site.