Howto - mediatemple - Create landing page for new domain.

Posted April 9th, 2008 by admin

Create a landing page for domains added onto mediatemple GS services.

1.  Create the new domain record in mediatemple using the “Add domain” facilities.

2.  If domain is not registered using mediatemple, point the domain name registrar’s nameservers to ns1 and ns2.mediatemple.net.  http://www.internic.net/whois.html for ready access to registrar and nameserver information.

3.  Wait -possibly up to 48 hours but probably a whole lot less, maybe an hour or two, for the name to resolve.  Notification that name is resolving using mediatemple nameservers is a “403 Forbidden - not allowed to access / on this server” error.

4.  Using mediatemple file upload facility, upload an index.html file into the root of the domain.  A copy and paste of the original mediatemple index.html with a few changes to reflect the new domain name should work.  Note that it may take longer for the new site name to show up in the mediatemple file manager than it does  for the domain name to start resolving.

5.  Verify the appearance of the landing page in your favorite browser.  May have to hit the refresh a couple of times.

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