Changing web host

I would check with the hosting company and ask THEM what file is executed first, and from where.

I have heard the same thing Azadi mentioned - that their CF services are pretty "difficult" to get "right". (That was very tactful, no?)

If the site you have uses relative paths, then all you should need to do is GET folks to the directory structure you ARE using.

What directory names does your app actually exist in now?

- Mike

Tor-Eddie,

I thought you had mentioned that you had access to whatever they say your actual web root is.

In your earlier posts, the files were running, just with some problems, I thought.

The idea is to leave the installation in its subdirectories, and to simply put a redirect link in the root that points to the "original" index.cfm file.

- Mike

Mike,
Tried to create the new file, but this is the new error message I get:

This site is a Virtual Web Server hosted by Magma Communications.

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Magma Communications is Ottawa's largest full-service Internet Company. Founded in 1995, Magma specializes in providing Internet services that include residential and corporate internet access, custom web development, and a range of website and server hosting packages.


I take it this means that the index.cfm is not the correct one?

Tor-Eddie

Tor-Eddie,

I've had to move a site, and this is probably the easiest way to resolve your situation:

1. Leave everything in /html like it is. The apps should work fine as long as they all use relative paths (looks like they do).

2. Create an index.cfm for the root of the site, with a single statement:

<cflocation url="/html/index.cfm">

Very simple redirect to the app without having to re-program stuff.

- Mike

FYI, many hosting companies have a folder/directory called html as the root of the site... so maybe just assume that everything you have inside your html folder should go in the root on godaddy (who's cf hosting, btw, totally sucks...)

Mike & Dave,

The index.cfm file used to be in the folder "html" but GoDaddy told me the index file had to be in the root. Well, based on my basic knowledge of Dreamweaver I sort of knew that that could be the problem. However, when I searched all 6 folders in the site for index files, I found 15-20. Most were "index.cfm", but some "index.html". Asked the site developer if he could tell me which would be the one that would open the site and he said it would be the "index.cfm" file in the "html" folder.
I didn't know any better so I copied this file from "html" to the root. That's when the first error message came up.
I followed MIke's advise and added "html" (where he used templates in his example), but it only triggered an even longer list of errors:

Data source dcconley could not be found.

The error occurred in D:\Hosting\acg2003\html\includes\qryGetPagesNav.cfm: line 2
Called from D:\Hosting\acg2003\html\fbx_Settings.cfm: line 48
Called from D:\Hosting\acg2003\html\fbx_fusebox30_CF50.cfm: line 159
Called from D:\Hosting\acg2003\html\fbx_fusebox30_CF50.cfm: line 1
Called from D:\Hosting\acg2003\html\fbx_fusebox30_CF50.cfm: line 1
Called from D:\Hosting\acg2003\index.cfm: line 17
Called from D:\Hosting\acg2003\html\includes\qryGetPagesNav.cfm: line 2
Called from D:\Hosting\acg2003\html\fbx_Settings.cfm: line 48
Called from D:\Hosting\acg2003\html\fbx_fusebox30_CF50.cfm: line 159
Called from D:\Hosting\acg2003\html\fbx_fusebox30_CF50.cfm: line 1
Called from D:\Hosting\acg2003\html\fbx_fusebox30_CF50.cfm: line 1
Called from D:\Hosting\acg2003\index.cfm: line 17

1 : <cfsilent>
2 : <cfquery name="getPages" datasource="#request.dbDSN#" username="#request.dbUsername#" password="#request.dbPassword#">
3 : SELECT
4 : #CMS['lstTbls']['Pages']#.ID,


Should I have kept the "index.cfm" file inside the "html" folder? How would the website have know how to open? Why are there so many other index.cfm and index.html files?

I see this relates to the database. However, I don't know if this is an indication that Mike's advise was correct, and that I made a step in the right direction or not?
I am subscribing to an SQL database service from GoDaddy, but only activated it this morning. I (stupidly) thought that when I subscribed, the database would be active, and ready to use. Now I'm waiting for it to be activated (it is "pending activation").

BTW: Thank you for taking the time to help out. I'd like to do this my self, as a learning experience.

Tor-Eddie

Well, for the specific error you are getting, it simply can't find a specific template:

fbx_fusebox30_CF50.cfm

Is this file in the same directory as the index.cfm file? I would guess not, and the mapping was probably setup in your previous configuration under the ColdFusion Administrator.

BIG NOTE: Not knowing your application, I DON'T know the ramifications of moving the above named file into the same directory as index.cfm, so I would simply modify the line to point to where the file actually is RELATIVE to where your index.cfm. Let's say index.cfm is in the root, and the other file is in a subdirecotry called "templates", you would say:

<cfinclude template="/templates/fbx_fusebox30_CF50.cfm">
<cfelse>
<cfinclude template="/templates/fbx_fusebox30_CF50_nix.cfm">

Let me know if this helps.

- Mike