Does this sound odd to you?
I moved to a new host. Many of my domains had forums, polls, guestbooks and other scripts installed on very obvious directory locations like "forum", "poll", and "guestbook". So when I had most of my sites restored from backups I I discovered that many of these scripts didn't work. The reason is something to the effect of "we already use that directory name".
In other words, I can't use myowndomainname.com/guestbook because the host already uses a directory by the same name. Once again... "huh?" Does that seem odd to you that my host's use of a directory name within their own domain structure should have any bearing on my ability to choose the same directory names on my own personal domain? Yes I can install things at /pollsB/ or /alternate_guestbook_location/ but because of this oddity my cPanel Backup becomes nearly useless as I need to reinstall these items in a different location then they were at on my old server.
Feedback please.
Greg K posted this at 00:13 — 22nd December 2004.
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That is very weird, what hosting company is it?
The only thing I can think of is maybe they are sharing the same IP for different domains and it has difficulties mapping out????
-Greg
Abhishek Reddy posted this at 02:14 — 22nd December 2004.
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It sounds odd.
These existing directories, are they being used by pre-installed scripts? Many hosts offer this but normally turn the scripts off by default. If you can disable them, the directories should be free for you to use.
I can't possibly see how their use of the same directory name could affect you. Surely they're kept in different spaces or folders at least.
fifeclub posted this at 02:23 — 22nd December 2004.
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The host is energizedhosting.com
Now that I'm home I can give you the exact quote of their explanation:
If you want to see an example, click my name in my signature and then go to guestbook. It was not an autoinstalled script that came from cPanel or anything but some error message comes up instead of what used to be there. Same sort of things on my other sites too.
Well here's something else odd that may tie into all this. Go to the IP address 205.234.146.210 and you'll see my personal website pop up. I don't know much about servers but every other host I've been with, you needed to add /~username to see somebody's website. I find this fact odd too.
If everybody agrees that something ain't right then I'd like to point out this message thread to my new hosting company.
Thanks.
Abhishek Reddy posted this at 02:51 — 22nd December 2004.
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They list "static IP address" as a feature to all hosting packages.
What is SiteStudio? This: http://www.psoft.net/SS/site_studio_info.html ? It looks like a point-and-click web design/management application. There must be a way to disable it for particular accounts.
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