moving domain to on-rev

[Bill Marriott]

Claudi,

I'm not sure if you're following the right steps.

There are two kinds of domains:

- sub
"my" is the sub of on-Rev in http://mysite.on-rev.com

- add-on domain
"my.com" is the domain of http://www.mysiite.com

An "add-on" domain is really what I would prefer to call a "true" domain.

You cannot create a true domain on on-Rev without having the DNS pointing to 
us. And cPanel won't complain if you follow these steps:

1. Create a SUB domain my. Put the folder at the top level like I suggested.
2. Upload your files there
3. Verify everything works by going to http://mysite.on-rev.com
4. When you're satisfied it works, make no further changes to your site on 
the original host
5. Switch the nameservers over to on-Rev
6. Set up an ADD-ON domain on on-Rev for my.com, pointing to your existing 
folder.

The DNS change will take 24-48 hours for everyone on the Internet to be 
updated with your new address, but will occur instantly for many, and within 
a couple hours for most. In the meantime, visitors will just see your old 
site until their particular DNS server gets the updated information, at 
which point they will go to your new site on on-Rev. They should not get any 
errors if you follow this procedure. Use mysite.on-rev.com for your own 
purposes (FTP, checking web pages) until you are certain the DNS has been 
updeted for yourself. I've followed this process for a couple domains 
already and unless something has changed recently, I know it works.

- Bill

"Claudi Cornaz" <claudi.c at fiberworld.nl> wrote in 
message news:049E3CCE-1431-4EA9-B62B-E920B1DF8967 at fiberworld.nl...
> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to move a existing domain to on-rev. The site is on line  and 
> I want to transfer it.
>
> So as sugested in a couple of posts I started out by adding a domain  to 
> my on-rev account via cPanel.
> I set the home directory of this site at the root level and not within 
> the public_html folder of my home folder.
> (this was suggested by Bill in one of the posts I've read)
>
> cPanel did complain, exactly like I read in the posts but did create  the 
> folder for this domain anyway (including a cgi-bin folder),
> so all looked ok. I transfered some files over and tryed to acces the 
> index file at:
> www.claudi.on-rev.com/cc-imaginering.nl/index.html  (cc-imaginering.nl  is 
> the domain I try to move) to see if it works.
>
> Unfortunatly I got a 404 errror. (the requested URL /cc-imaginering.nl/ 
> index.html was not found on this server)
> The same file uploaded to my public_html folder works just fine
>
> My first question is how do I get to my site to test it. Is the URL I 
> entred wrong?
> Is there some setting I overlooked?
>
> The second problem I encoutered is the following
>
> There is a part of the site which I don't want to be down for a couple  of 
> days while the DNS update takes place so
> I contacted my ISP where the site is currently hosted and asked them
> to change the nameservers to ns1.on-rev.com and ns2.on-rev.com but 
> leaving the site on there servers till
> the DNS update has taken place. They where ok with this and tried to  do 
> it.
>
> Next I got a mail from them telling me that they got the following  error 
> from SIDN
> Errors=1, Warnings=1, Informational=1
> ** Summary: REJECTED cc-imaginering.nl.
> Some problems need to get fixed:
> - Some of your name servers cannot be used (are broken).
> ** Full check report:
> * general reports
> Warning: all specified name servers are on sub-net 74.54.153.0/24
> * primary name server "ns1.on-rev.com." [BROKEN]
> Broken: the name server does not know of domain "cc-imaginering.nl."
> * secondary name server "ns2.on-rev.com."
> Info: problems with the primary, so not all tests run.
> ** DNScheck 4.2.6, 2009/06/29 15:45:16 CEST+0200
> #### fail
>
> I don't know if both things are related, maybe, but I realy like the  site 
> to stay working during the DNS update
> I hope that it is possible.
>
> If anyone can help me out I would appriciate it very much
>
> Sincerly,
>   Claudi
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