Landing Page at Hetzner

You have reached the landing page for this website, at Hetzner, as configured by David Gibson. This page is being presented to you because your own website structure is not yet in place. To prevent this page from displaying, the simplest thing for you to do is just to upload your own index.html or index.php page. However, you might wish to delete all of the files in your HTTP root directory, and start with a blank slate. So...

▶ Please see the notes at Migrating to Hetzner  for more detailed information on migrating to Hetzner. (Note: that page requires a password).

▶ Your FTP credentials, and the HTML password mentioned above, are stored in the new BCRA Password Safe (ask the IT team to fetch the info for you – it is our practice to send you such info by text or WhatsApp message, rather than by email).

▶ You can upload your files to hetzner.caving-library.org.uk for testing. When the site is working, the IT team will alter the DNS so that caving-library.org.uk is a CNAME for the Hetzner site.

• PHP reports that the file currently being parsed (i.e. __FILE__) is
  /var/www/clients/client5/web25/web/myIndex.html
• PHP reports the parent directory path (i.e. dirname($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'])) to be /.
  That can tell you whether the system has redirected any relevant subdomain.

The page you are reading now is (or was called from) myIndex.php. This behaviour is governed by a line in the htaccess file...

DirectoryIndex index.shtml index.html index.htm index.php myIndex.php

so, if you add a page called index.html or index.php, it should over-ride the display of the current page. You can, of course, delete myIndex.php or re-write htaccess but please note that if you do not have a valid DirectoryIndex directive in your file, the system will probably default to displaying its /standard_index.html page. The directive for that comes from 'further up' the chain of control files.

One of the problems in setting up this server was ensuring that PHP was running correctly. This problem was largely of my own making because most of my HTML pages require to be parsed for PHP and this was not the default behaviour of the server. Thus the first task, now, is to check whether PHP is running correctly. If this file is not being parsed for PHP you will see various comments in red.