Why can't I preview my websites?

I'm having problems with a website and two subdomains:

www.geozoo.org
mammals.geozoo.org
birds.geozoo.org

Actually, I can't even remember if I've had problems with the main site,
but I'm frequently unable to view one or both of the subdomains. At the
moment, I can see birds.geozoo.org, but not mammals.geozoo.org.

One time when both were invisible, I contacted my webhost, and they said
they could see them both fine. Shortly after that, I could see one
subdomain, then the other also appeared.

It doesn't seem to be a browser cache problem, because they're invisible
in Mozilla Firefox, Opera and Internet Explorer. So I'm scratching my
head, trying to figure out what might be behind this. Any tips?

P.S. The websites themselves are a train wreck. I'm just beginning to
get them squared away.

Are you sure it's not the host that is also a train wreck?

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"David B" <david_blomstromDELETETHIS (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote

I'm having problems with a website and two subdomains:

www.geozoo.org
mammals.geozoo.org
birds.geozoo.org

Actually, I can't even remember if I've had problems with the main site,
but I'm frequently unable to view one or both of the subdomains. At the
moment, I can see birds.geozoo.org, but not mammals.geozoo.org.

One time when both were invisible, I contacted my webhost, and they said
they could see them both fine. Shortly after that, I could see one
subdomain, then the other also appeared.

It doesn't seem to be a browser cache problem, because they're invisible
in Mozilla Firefox, Opera and Internet Explorer. So I'm scratching my
head, trying to figure out what might be behind this. Any tips?

P.S. The websites themselves are a train wreck. I'm just beginning to
get them squared away.

www.geozoo.org
That isn't mapped to anything in the Server's DNS records.

http://geozoo.org DOES work.
(but has same problems with linked content and php errors as
mammals.geozoo.org)
suggestion- don't know what terms your control panel uses, but you want to
set up a symbolic link or in some other way enable www as a subdomain that
uses the contents of geozoo as what it delivers.

mammals.geozoo.org
this one comes up, but none of the linked content works- and there are php

errors.

birds.geozoo.org
this one comes up and seems okay.

Murray *TMM* wrote:

Are you sure it's not the host that is also a train wreck?

No, the host is very good. I have no similar problems with the other
sites they host for me.

Alan wrote:

www.geozoo.org

That isn't mapped to anything in the Server's DNS records.

I don't understand what you're saying, or the significance. Are you
saying that it SHOULD be mapped to something in the server's DNS records?

http://geozoo.org DOES work.
(but has same problems with linked content and php errors as
mammals.geozoo.org)
suggestion- don't know what terms your control panel uses, but you want to
set up a symbolic link or in some other way enable www as a subdomain that
uses the contents of geozoo as what it delivers.

Again, I don't understand you mean. Are you saying that
http://geozoo.org works better than www.geozoo.org (the official domain
name), and I should therefore treat geozoo.org as a subdomain?

Thanks.

Alan wrote:

www.geozoo.org

That isn't mapped to anything in the Server's DNS records.

http://geozoo.org DOES work.
(but has same problems with linked content and php errors as
mammals.geozoo.org)
suggestion- don't know what terms your control panel uses, but you want to
set up a symbolic link or in some other way enable www as a subdomain that
uses the contents of geozoo as what it delivers.

OK, I read your post again, and I understand what you're saying. I'm
going to forward your notes to my webhost. Thanks!