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Web page displaying "parked" page, not my files
Hi,
I have a particular web page (freechristmasbooks.com) that displays incorrectly. The files are all installed correctly (it used to show up and I haven't changed anything) and the DNS records are also correct (or it wouldn't show the "parked" looking page).
What HAS changed is that the domain name was temporarily expired. It has been restored, but now rather than showing a WordPress theme, it shows some ads.
Please help me get this restored. I wonder if some a record or such things was broken while the domain name was disabled?
Thanks.
Shaun Roundy
I have a particular web page (freechristmasbooks.com) that displays incorrectly. The files are all installed correctly (it used to show up and I haven't changed anything) and the DNS records are also correct (or it wouldn't show the "parked" looking page).
What HAS changed is that the domain name was temporarily expired. It has been restored, but now rather than showing a WordPress theme, it shows some ads.
Please help me get this restored. I wonder if some a record or such things was broken while the domain name was disabled?
Thanks.
Shaun Roundy
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Hello Shaun, and thanks for your question. Because you just recently renewed the domain from being expired it can take 24-48 hours for it to correctly propagate to point just to our server, instead of the Registrar's parked landing page that you might still be seeing which would be getting pulled from a completely separate server than ours. Once it has updated for your local computer you should be getting the WordPress error "Error establishing a database connection". This is because it looks like in your wp-config.php script you currently don't have any valid database credentials entered in for accessing the database on our server. I see that you have quite a few databases setup already, you'll just need to be sure to modify your configuration script to use the proper database name, user name, and password that you've setup for that particular WordPress database. Because your local computer is more than likely caching the DNS lookup of your domain, and still resolving you to the landing parked page you aren't seeing this error yet. However because I hadn't tried to go to your domain name from my computer till just now, I went right to your site. You can flush your local DNS cache if you'd like to try to speed up the DNS propagation process following these steps:
I hope that information helps, if you have any further questions at all please let us know. - Jacob |
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