Help sorting out an old .aspx site

[johngordon12]

Hope someone can steer me right here.

Basically I've been asked to redo a site that was done ages ago in .aspx, which I don't really know anything about. (Although I am familiar with a bit of mySQL and PHP). As a brief history, someone I did another site for has bought out another local business, but for whatever reason, they didn't simply take on or transfer the existing hosting, but bought a new, almost identical domain.

So as a first step, I'm just trying to download the old site via FTP (I have the log in details), and upload it to the new domain.

I have downloaded it, but there was no index page, and when I uploaded the entire site, and pointed it to one of the .aspx pages I just got code rather than the page.

Anyway - this is the homepage of the old site :

http://www.cotswoldforge.com/

But when I navigate to the homepage of the new site, its a different page - presumably the aspx is doing something clever to create the page?

http://www.thecotswoldforge.com/

And a sample page on the old site is :

http://www.cotswoldforge.com/AboutUs.aspx

But looks like this where I've uploaded it :

http://www.thecotswoldforge.com/AboutUs.aspx

I'm starting to think its going to be easiest to start over, but if anyone could offer up any clues as to what's going on here, that would be much appreciated.

The odd thing is, I can't even see that the aspx is even doing anything particularly clever that the site really benefits from, except maybe a small database - but the navigation seems all a bit unintuitive to me.

Cheers.

[bregent]

The new site is running Apache on Unix!. So, aspx is not going to run at all.

[bregent]

>I have downloaded it, but there was no index page,

The homepage of the old site is default.aspx

[johngordon12]

Ah, OK - I did figure out the default.aspx page, but its still a different page on the old site, compared to the new site, where I literally just uploaded all the files after downloading them from the existing site.

With the Apache / Unix thing, is that basically the kind of host server, as opposed to Linux?

[bregent]

>Ah, OK - I did figure out the default.aspx page, but its still a different page on the old site,

>compared to the new site, where I literally just uploaded all the files after downloading them

>from the existing site.

I don't think the pages are different. You just can't see much of the content on the new site since it is pulling it from a database dynamically on the old site.

>With the Apache / Unix thing, is that basically the kind of host server, as opposed to Linux?

The point here is that .aspx pages must run on Microsoft Web servers which run on MS operating systems. The .aspx pages won't run on *nix servers.