I need help

[hdmax]

  What I have so far!

 Davis Vantage Pro2
 Virtual Weather Station 14.01 (Internet Edition)
 Davis Data Logger (Serial)
 Web Site (sixmileturn-weather.com)
 Host (E-rice)

  When I go to the web site, it is just an ad filled page with a huge ad from go daddy dot com, several ads from all sorts of weather related stuff, and a couple other ads.

  Is this because e-rice is sitting on their hands, or something on my part?

 I would really like to set up the site using Saratoga's scripts, but I am as lost as a bear in a shopping mall.

 I have setup the software so I can go to wunderground.com to see my weather station information, and I even have setup a network page through Ambient Weather. But this web design is kicking my butt every way to Sunday.

  Any and all help would be greatly appreciated!

     Mike

[mackbig]

Agree, Ken's scripts are the way to go.
But assuming the ads on your site are only there because you have not uploaded an index file yet....you could have a weather page in a few minutes.

All you need is your ftp site address (might be ftp.sixmileturn-weather.com), a username and password from e-rice.

If you have that already, just use the VWS web site builder, answer some basic question about your area, etc, the ftp and credentials and voila.

Then you can start playing with Ken's templates and scripts while your VWS tempated site is up and running.

Andrew

ps: cant see your ad filled page, as right now my network folks deem your site to be

Category:  Potentially Damaging Content - Sites in this category may pose a security threat to network resources or private information, and are blocked by INSERTCOMPANYNAMEHERE.

[Bushman]

If I were you, I would start with the included Weatherlink software templates.  All you need to do is  point your domain name at Godaddy to your e-rice account.  Use Weatehrlink to FTP the files up to your e-rice account.  When someone  types in sixmileturn-weather.com they will see your  files on e-rice.

[xykotik]

When I go to the web site, it is just an ad filled page with a huge ad from go daddy dot com, several ads from all sorts of weather related stuff, and a couple other ads.

That looks like a go-daddy placeholder for a newly registered domain-name.  With whom did you register your domain name?  GoDaddy?  e-Rice?  If it wasn't an all-in-one hosting package (domain + hosting) you will probably need to go to the domain registrar whom which you purchased your domain and point the "DNS" entries toward the e-rice nameservers.  E-rice should have sent you an email (or check your CP there) with the URL of the nameservers (usually something like "ns1.yourwebhost.com, ns2.yourwebhost.com") and then in your e-rice CP (well, at least with MOST hosting companies), you will have to tell it the domains you are pointing at it (eg sixmileturn-weather.com) so it can create the entires in it's own DNS to point visitors to the correct account (yours) when they type in your domain name. 

If you have done ALL of those things, sometimes it really does take a day or two for all of the nameserver changes to propogate over the internet.  First there is the invisible "dot", then ".com" then go-daddy (or whoever holds your registration) then your webhost, then wherever your ISP gets it's DNS, then your router's built-in DNS.  There have been times when I have moved a domain and one a PC connected to my home-isp it updates to the new route within a couple of hours, but my 3G-modem on the laptop (different DNS paths) would take a day or two.  Once the DNS's along the way "learn" the route, it takes a shortcut and finds it (almost) every time very quickly from it's internal routing table, but after a change, the DNS paths lead to some dead-ends and they have to re-learn.

Hope this helps, good luck!

[Ugly Duckling]

When I go to the web site, it is just an ad filled page with a huge ad from go daddy dot com, several ads from all sorts of weather related stuff, and a couple other ads.

That looks like a go-daddy placeholder for a newly registered domain-name.  With whom did you register your domain name?  GoDaddy?  e-Rice?  If it wasn't an all-in-one hosting package (domain + hosting) you will probably need to go to the domain registrar whom which you purchased your domain and point the "DNS" entries toward the e-rice nameservers.  E-rice should have sent you an email (or check your CP there) with the URL of the nameservers (usually something like "ns1.yourwebhost.com, ns2.yourwebhost.com") and then in your e-rice CP (well, at least with MOST hosting companies), you will have to tell it the domains you are pointing at it (eg sixmileturn-weather.com) so it can create the entires in it's own DNS to point visitors to the correct account (yours) when they type in your domain name. 

If you have done ALL of those things, sometimes it really does take a day or two for all of the nameserver changes to propogate over the internet.  First there is the invisible "dot", then ".com" then go-daddy (or whoever holds your registration) then your webhost, then wherever your ISP gets it's DNS, then your router's built-in DNS.  There have been times when I have moved a domain and one a PC connected to my home-isp it updates to the new route within a couple of hours, but my 3G-modem on the laptop (different DNS paths) would take a day or two.  Once the DNS's along the way "learn" the route, it takes a shortcut and finds it (almost) every time very quickly from it's internal routing table, but after a change, the DNS paths lead to some dead-ends and they have to re-learn.

Hope this helps, good luck!

Oh man Oh man is this what I have to look forward to? I thought it would be easier than this. UPS should be ringing my doorbell anytime with my Vue.

Good luck? Luck is required?

Many Happy Weather Changes,

Marci Anna

[mackbig]

It is easier than this, get an all in one hosting and domain registration from one place, like godaddy.  It'll cost a bit more, but its easier.

Andrew

Oh man Oh man is this what I have to look forward to? I thought it would be easier than this. UPS should be ringing my doorbell anytime with my Vue.

Good luck? Luck is required?

Many Happy Weather Changes,

Marci Anna

[Ugly Duckling]

It is easier than this, get an all in one hosting and domain registration from one place, like godaddy.  It'll cost a bit more, but its easier.

Andrew

Oh man Oh man is this what I have to look forward to? I thought it would be easier than this. UPS should be ringing my doorbell anytime with my Vue.

Good luck? Luck is required?

Many Happy Weather Changes,

Marci Anna

Maybe $10 a year with E-rice and $60 with Godaddy?

Many Happy Weather Changes,

Marci Anna

[Bushman]

http://help.godaddy.com/article/664?isc=biggame08#reghere  explains how to point your Godaddy registered name to your e-rice accout.  Once you do that, upload to e-rice.  Pretty simple actually.

[Ugly Duckling]

http://help.godaddy.com/article/664?isc=biggame08#reghere  explains how to point your Godaddy registered name to your e-rice accout.  Once you do that, upload to e-rice.  Pretty simple actually.

I don't really see instructions there as how to set GoDanica to some where such as R-rice
Im following this closely as I'll be doing this soon myself.

Many Happy Weather Changes,

Marci Anna

[Ugly Duckling]

http://help.godaddy.com/article/664?isc=biggame08#reghere  explains how to point your Godaddy registered name to your e-rice accout.  Once you do that, upload to e-rice.  Pretty simple actually.

If someone should see where on GoDanica it explains exactly how to set host to E-rice please post it as I can't find it. I plan to use E-rice as I see many are using it.

Thanks so much!

Many Happy Weather Changes,

Marci Anna

[Bushman]

http://help.godaddy.com/article/664?isc=biggame08#reghere  and then select the forwarding option.  Use the forwarding option to tell Godaddy to forward to your e-rice account.  There is even a video on how to do that part.

[Ugly Duckling]

http://help.godaddy.com/article/664?isc=biggame08#reghere  and then select the forwarding option.  Use the forwarding option to tell Godaddy to forward to your e-rice account.  There is even a video on how to do that part.

I have no idea how I didn't see that before.

Thank you so much! You are so nice!

Soon as that dang Vue arrives I'm ready to get started.

Hugs,

Many Happy Weather Changes,

Marci Anna

[xykotik]

Soon as that dang Vue arrives I'm ready to get started.

I've said it before and I'll say it again.  SET UP A VIDEO CAM before the brown truck arrives, so we can see your reaction when you tear into that pretty Vue box.

[neondesert]

Mike, it looks like your site is now available to upload files to. 

When you go to sixmileturn-weather.com it no longer shows the SlowDanica.com default parking page.
Now it is redirecting to a default E-Rice page showing:

If you see this page, it means:

1) This website is not properly configured; OR

2) This website is not alive yet; OR

3) This website has been suspended.

So now your reading to upload content! 
Don't hesitate to ask more questions, that's what we are here for. 

[hdmax]

Thank you Larry, and everyone else that has helped!
  I have modified the scripts that I downloaded from Sarotoga, and have uploaded them to my site (Not sure if they are correct.) and I'm now awaiting e-rice or godaddy, to make the necessary changes that I requested.

Mike, it looks like your site is now available to upload files to. 

When you go to sixmileturn-weather.com it no longer shows the SlowDanica.com default parking page.
Now it is redirecting to a default E-Rice page showing:

If you see this page, it means:

1) This website is not properly configured; OR

2) This website is not alive yet; OR

3) This website has been suspended.

So now your reading to upload content! 
Don't hesitate to ask more questions, that's what we are here for. 

[graculus]

Thank you Larry, and everyone else that has helped!
  I have modified the scripts that I downloaded from Sarotoga, and have uploaded them to my site (Not sure if they are correct.) and I'm now awaiting e-rice or godaddy, to make the necessary changes that I requested.3) This website has been suspended.

What are you expecting godaddy to do? Looking at the information for your domain it is still pointing to godaddy's DNS:

Domain servers in listed order:

NS77.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
NS78.DOMAINCONTROL.COM

It won't work with e-rice until you change that to the e-rice servers.

[hdmax]

A few years back I setup a web site with a free web host, and I thought it was very easy, so coming into setting up a weather site, I thought it too would be easy. But I now realize it is beyond my expertise. I am completely lost. at least I finally do have a site I can go to, it's just not what I had anticipated.
 sixmileturn-weather.com looks like a ftp site, not the web site that I wanted.

 I am hoping I can get some much needed help before I completely give up on it!

[Axelvold]

It looks like you have placed your files in the wrong directory.

They are here, http://sixmileturn-weather.com/sixmileturn-weather.com/Base-USA/ and here http://sixmileturn-weather.com/sixmileturn-weather.com/sixmileturn-weather.com/Base-USA/

[hdmax]

Thank you for the reply, but I don't know how to move them into the correct directory! Do I delete them some how, then reup them to a different directory, or move them? I don't have a clue on what to do in order to get the site up and running!

It looks like you have placed your files in the wrong directory.

They are here, http://sixmileturn-weather.com/sixmileturn-weather.com/Base-USA/ and here http://sixmileturn-weather.com/sixmileturn-weather.com/sixmileturn-weather.com/Base-USA/

[Axelvold]

I assume you use VWS, Right?

Then you should specify the folder where the files should be in in VWS, (I'm not an expert on VWS so I don't know where to set that)

The files on your server you could delete or download to your computer and then upload them to the right folder.

[George Richardson]

I hesitate to offer this but I will: try http://filezilla-project.org
You could move files from directory to directory on server.
FWIW
George

[xykotik]

While I can't speak for e-rice, every other full-feature web-hosting service I have used (meaning not like geocities or the free page that comes with your ISP) you don't create a sub-folder with your domain-name if you are using their file mangler (rather than an FTP client like FileZilla or WSFTP) to upload your stuff.  That is, put the "index.html" or equivalent file that you want people get when they type "yourdomainname.com" into whatever base directory is offered by their file mangler.

Some webhosting services (again, I can't speak for e-rice) may use your account name as the base folder.  Some make your base folder "yourdomainname.com"  and some use some crazy legacy unix path like "/usr/local/youraccount/htdocs/" but you likely see none of those using their file mangler and just start at the offered base folder.  You "may" see paths like that from your FTP client, but probably not.  In any case, you should not ever have to CREATE a folder that is your domain name.

Good luck!

[hdmax]

I have placed the folders in the folder on my website as instructed by E-rice, and it is not working like it should!
 I seam to be getting nowhere with this issue. I wish it would work so I can be done with all these headaches it is causing!

  A hobby quickly becomes less fun when things don't work like one imagined it would!

 

[dkinsc]

I have placed the folders in the folder on my website as instructed by E-rice, and it is not working like it should!
 

Please be very specific and detailed in telling us the following:
Where (web address and folder name) did you put your files?
Where is the file named index.html (or index.htm or index.php)?
What web address do you use when you want to look at your website?

Del

[xykotik]

Your files ARE on the server, right where AXELVOLD said.  Just not a good place, and no "index" or default page to load anything.

If you go to your domain http://sixmileturn-weather.com/ this location contains only a folder called...
http://sixmileturn-weather.com/sixmileturn-weather.com/ but no landing (index/default) page.
If you open that sub folder you get a whole bunch of sub-folders that look like VWS templates and carterlake icons.  Still no landing page, redirect, script or anything that a visitor's browser could use.  So, you are getting files onto the server.  We just have to get them UP a couple of folders, as I state in my recent post.  You also need a landing page in your base directory.  At least some basic html file that says "Welcome to SixMileTurn Weather".

I believe that the VWS distribution and the carterlake templates would contain just about everything you need for a complete website (except of course for a connected wx-station) so make sure you follow very carefully the instructions for uploading and configuring those as well.  Take no shortcuts and make no assumptions.  Check those e-rice instructions again too, very closely.  If there is an instruction there that doesn't make total sense or seems obvious but doesn't work, let us know.  Sometimes the tech writers who are exposed to the lingo and processes every day overlook or underexplain some things that they themselves would take for granted.