Topic: Really stumped with this one..please help.

[Phillip]

Ok, here it goes...my server seems to have a split personality. If I go to http://www.mydomain.com I get the default "This page is under construction" page. If I type in http://mydomain.com I get the beautiful site I designed and uploaded to /home/e-smith/files/primary/html. If I go under ssl I go to the site I designed if I go to http://mydomain.com:8080 (opened port 8080) I get the default page.etc, etc. When I first noticed this I thought "no problem" I will just mirror the site at both locations...but I can't find the default site...I have scoured the hd for the other index.htm. I have gone over my httpd.conf file line by line looking for a clue to where it might be...but no dice.

Can someone please educate me?

[Bruce]

I had a similar problem.  My XP pro wkstn would see the webpage correctly.  The win98 wkstn would get the "Under Construction" page only when logged on with my account.  The admin account viewed the page as designed.  I clicked on the refresh button on my browser and the problem went away.

I am new to sme server and have no idea what caused the problem.

[Phillip]

Thought that would be too simple...clicked refresh about a thousand times and no luck...

[Bruce]

What do machines see from outside you LAN?  My problem occurred when I switched out a new server and copied the information back into /htm.  I can't remember if I did anything else.

People outside of my LAN could see the page correctly and as I said before, the other wkstn (not on the domain yet) pulled up the page just fine.

[Ray Mitchell]

It is probably a cache issue. I have had a similar occurence.
You need to do Ctrl F5 or Ctrl Refresh to force the browser to actually read the new index.htm(l) file rather than just continuing to read the old one in the cache.

Regards
Ray Mitchell

[Ray Mitchell]

You can check the actual index file contents by typing a URL of http://yourdomain.com/index.htm in your browser (use whatever name your index file is).

Alternatively log on to the server as root, run mc (midnight commander) and then navigate to the primary/html folder and view your actual index file directly (F3). That way you are absolutely sure of what it contains, no browser caches to get in the way !!

Regards
Ray Mitchell