Daveskater
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Need to set up a company website pretty soon, have read a couple of threads on here and Vidahost and Wordpress seems like a good solution.
Just a couple of questions though -
1) If I install Wordpress in the Vidahost signing up process, will it be suitable for use with a theme for a proper site, not just a blog?
2) I had also read about buying the domain via 123-reg.co.uk; now is this because it will be cheaper in the long run or something? As Vidahost are offering a 2-year registration for a .co.uk domain for free when signing up.
3) Initially, until I have set up the website properly, I will want it to redirect to an FB page. Is this easy enough to do?
Cheers guys 
Numberwang!
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1. Yes
2. If you go with Vidahost there's no need to spend up to an extra £10 for a domain separately.
3. Yes
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Daveskater
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Excellent, cheers Sam The domain was £6 for 2 years on 123-reg, so saves a few bob. Nice one.
Numberwang!
Originally posted by AlunJ
I like you Dave, you are a man of men
Originally Whatapp'd by Neo
Dave's maybe capable of a drive-by cuddle
Look at my pictures
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AlunJ
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Set up your own gay escort company is it Davey boy?
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Daveskater
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Btw, how would I go about redirecting to Facebook?  Cheers.
Numberwang!
Originally posted by AlunJ
I like you Dave, you are a man of men
Originally Whatapp'd by Neo
Dave's maybe capable of a drive-by cuddle
Look at my pictures
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ed
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When looking for themes, look for ones that say they're CMS suitable - some can be a bit more blog orientated and leave things like dates and author info on pages which can seem a little strange.
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ed
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quote:
Originally posted by Daveskater
Btw, how would I go about redirecting to Facebook? Cheers.
Either setup redirection with your domain name, or if it all comes setup and connected to your hosting, make a file called index.php and add the following into it:
<?php
header('HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently');
header('Location: https://www.facebook.com/my_awesome_facebook_page');
?>
Then upload it to the root directory of your web hosting, this will be something like httpdocs or public_html.
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Dom
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quote:
Originally posted by ed
quote:
Originally posted by Daveskater
Btw, how would I go about redirecting to Facebook? Cheers.
Either setup redirection with your domain name, or if it all comes setup and connected to your hosting, make a file called index.php and add the following into it:
<?php
header('HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently');
header('Location: https://www.facebook.com/my_awesome_facebook_page');
?>
Then upload it to the root directory of your web hosting, this will be something like httpdocs or public_html.
Use 302 redirect rather than 301 as it is only a temporary redirect. And i'd personally do it via a htaccess file but both work.
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Daveskater
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Yeah, it will only be temporary. Have got both pages set up, will sort it out properly tomorrow/at the weekend as bed is calling now 
Thanks for all the help so far guys, there may be more questions if I can't figure stuff out  Hopefully it'll be ok.
Numberwang!
Originally posted by AlunJ
I like you Dave, you are a man of men
Originally Whatapp'd by Neo
Dave's maybe capable of a drive-by cuddle
Look at my pictures
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N3CRO
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quote:
Originally posted by AlunJ
Set up your own gay escort company is it Davey boy?
Nah, he'd never get any clients
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Daveskater
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Says you 
Numberwang!
Originally posted by AlunJ
I like you Dave, you are a man of men
Originally Whatapp'd by Neo
Dave's maybe capable of a drive-by cuddle
Look at my pictures
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N3CRO
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Indeed I do 
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Daveskater
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Set up the 301 redirect so it goes to the FB page  There was already a file called index.php because of Wordpress being installed, so renamed it to index-wp.php so it's still in there for when I have the WP set up.
Numberwang!
Originally posted by AlunJ
I like you Dave, you are a man of men
Originally Whatapp'd by Neo
Dave's maybe capable of a drive-by cuddle
Look at my pictures
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Dom
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quote:
Originally posted by Daveskater
Set up the 301 redirect so it goes to the FB page There was already a file called index.php because of Wordpress being installed, so renamed it to index-wp.php so it's still in there for when I have the WP set up.
Personally i would have installed Wordpress on a sub domain, limiting access via IP and/or password protecting, for development then transfer to a new install on the root when completed, as you may run into problems with the current php redirect due to Wordpress relying on htaccess ie: rewrite rules; which i suspect will fudge it (can't i've ever tried though ).
However, remove the 'header('HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently');' line in the index as it isn't a permanent redirect.
[Edited on 20-04-2012 by Dom]
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Daveskater
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Have taken that line out, cheers
Fair enough, the site came with Wordpress installed so it's all just how it came at the moment Should it be easy enough to move it to a subdomain for now and then move it back later?
Edit - found an option for setting up a redirect within the cPanel, so have set that and restored the index-wp.php back to index.php.
[Edited on 20-04-2012 by Daveskater]
Numberwang!
Originally posted by AlunJ
I like you Dave, you are a man of men
Originally Whatapp'd by Neo
Dave's maybe capable of a drive-by cuddle
Look at my pictures
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