Ah so I got all registered and tried to install an XMB forum according to these guidelines -
http://www.xmbforum.com/docs/manualBasically, my domain is tarheart.org, and I wanted the forum to be at
http://edition.tarheart.orgSo firstly I created a subdomain- edition.tarheart.org
Then I went to FTP accounts and created an account regitstered to the domain: edition.tarheart.org (This was the first FTP account I created).
When I logged in to this FTP I found some files and directories, which I stupidly deleted and continued to follow the forum's instruction guidelines. I presumed that because I was in the edition.tarheart.org login, that everything was transferring to edition.tarheart.org and so I uploaded the needed files.
Then I tried to get on the forum install - visting this link:
http://edition.tarheart.org/forum_directory/install/ (If you click it you'll see a pretty much identical page to what i saw)
Thinking this odd, I decided to delete the uploaded files and try again - same result. I then visited the main domain: tarheart.org, to find the exact same page - as compared to the default lunarpages page I'd seen earlier. Even odder. I created a FTP account under the domain tarheart.org, to find the exact same files I thought I'd uploaded to edition.tarheart.org - there.
Now what I think happened is: if you look at the red text above, the files I deleted were actually the default files that should have remained there (in the home directory?). Basically, I thought when I created a FTP account under edition.tarheart.org - I was only getting access to edition.tarheart.org and not the main site but it seems not. I think I was only ever accessing the root site and uploading nothing to the subdomain - which is an annoyance to say the least.
So now I'm in a pickle, and I need help in the following ways:
1. Getting rid of the horrible 404 Not Found pages - if anybody has the default files and directories that come with a new site that'd be great - I think I could install these and restore the site to how it was.
2. Finding a way to make the edition.tarheart.org FTP account, upload to ONLY this sub domain (without access to the main site) - although I will own both my site and the forum, I may chose to allow fellow admins FTP access to the forum and would like it if they could ONLY access the forum files and not my whole entire site.
3. General help with where I've gone wrong, solutions and possibly advice for the future.
I hope this makes sense, I've tried to be coherent as possible however this is relatively complex for me and I probably can't phrase or explain what I mean in completely technical terms. However, I think you'll understand what I mean. I'll be so grateful for any help given, especially during the festive period, it would mean alot.
PS: When I created a database user I enterred tarhe1_alex - however when looking at my stats I'm being shown tarhe1_alex@[a series of numbers] - not sure if it's safe to post these numbers online. Is my username tarhe1_alex or tarhe1_alex@[numbers] ?
- Thanks
