hi,

I tried to publish my site to a GoDaddy host and it does not work. When I check in my GoDaddy file manager what I see is the following: 4 directories (root, geometry, image and media) then a file which is the filename as I saved it in SiteSpinner (.ims) and then all the pages I designed as html files. GoDaddy explained me that the reason the site is not working is that the index.html is not in the root directory. Please help . Thanks

Hi jacques.

You need one of your html files to be named ".index" (this is your home page), this is usally placed in your public_html folder wich is in your root directory and within this folder there should also be geometry plus image folders. So make sure your public_html folder holds all your html files including your index page and your geometry and image folder.

So in your GoDaddy file manager move all your html files into the public_html folder and move your image and geometry folder into the public_html folder aswell.

Now I'm not sure if GoDaddy is the same as my server but that's how I did it.

Let us know how you go, because if you don't have a public_html folder I'm pretty sure you can create one.

Cheers,
Tonga.

On GoDaddy, you do not need a public_html folder; your site account is always at your root directory (/). Most likely, your designed home page is not named index. As Tonga states, your first page must be named index.

hi, my first page is called index (I kept it just like SiteSpinner automatically set it) When I publish to the free trialsite Ihostvm it works just fine, at GoDaddy it does not.
Maybe this helps:when I do a preview my IE says C:/.../local/temp/sitespinnerprov2 /preview/index.html

Since the geometry, image and media directories are being created, then SS is able to connect to your site and publish something - that's good news.

When you used your GoDaddy file manager, you say you saw your .ims project file (this is an automatic backup file put there by SS). Did you see the index.html file? Was it anywhere on your site, maybe in a different directory?

When you published your project, did you publish "all pages"? Look in the SS publisher status window while you are publishing your project - are there any errors reported?

First and foremost, please remove the above post containing your log-in info. Open it using the Edit icon, and delete it. You just gave anyone evil enough full access to your site - they could hi-jack it, change your password, use name, anything they want to do.

Is you site http://abcdominicano.com/ ? If so, it is displaying fine in Firefox 3.5 and IE8. If you cannot see it, what browser error are you getting?

If abcdominicano is your domain, it works fine in Firefox 3.5.3 too. WAY SUPER COOL bouncing letters... WOW!!