index page display issues

[geoapa]

I am trying to update the index page of a new site I am working on and having a little difficulty doing so.

After I upload the new index.html page to the remote server I can see the page in a browser if I type in the direct URL to the page (i.e. [foo.com...] but the OLD index page still displays if I go to [foo.com...]

there are no files on the server that are named index.htm, or default.htm.

When I even rename an image that the the Old index page is using the page still displays with that image.

I cleared out my cache and that didn't help.

I am stumped.

[geoapa]

It turns out that it was a Macromedia Contribute issue that was integrated with Dreamweaver. I turned off that option and now it partially works.

But now I have another problem.

I can view my new index page at
[foo.com...]
but not at
"http://foo.com" Actually the old index still displays there!

where is this old index page come from?

[geoapa]

more detail...

New index page displays at the following URLs:

[foo.com...]
[foo.com...]
[foo.com...]

OLD index page displays at:

[foo.com...]

I don't know where this old index page is coming from and would like to get rid of it and have the new index page display at that URL as well.

[thehittmann]

goto the [foo.com...] and hit F5 after it loads. Maybe its just as simple as a cache of the page that was last visited on that dns.

[geoapa]

c'mon, give me some credit here!
that's the first thing i tried.

[geoapa]

I called my client's web host and it sounded like they were working out of a basement.

They said something about the server being set as a proxy server and having a cache?

I asked how often the cache was cleared and he couldn't answer me. I requested that he take off the cache for now since I'll be working on the site. He said that taking off the cache feature will take up bandwidth but he went ahead and did it anyway. He said it would take 48 hours to take affect.

I don't quite understand the whole proxy server setup. Can anyone explain a bit?

[thehittmann]

this makes sense.
a proxy server downloads the information that you want from the internet then it feeds to you. The next time you want to see that page again it gets fed from the proxy not the internet that way there is less bandwidth used. They should at least have it set up though to check the time that the file was last modified before they send their version though. Or would that make too much sense?