I now have SSL certificate attached to the website. The OVH instructions are actually straightforward for this and the process worked fine once I had realised that I not only had to 'enable' the Free SSL certificate, but also to 'activate' it. Once 'activated' the process happened quite quickly. barnabywilde.uk if you would like to see it.

@Timothy-Fisher

Hi

Thanks for the feedback, the site is looking good 👍

John EB

@Timothy-Fisher @johnebaker

Hi Tim,

Glad to see that you got it working. Nice site.

In my case, I got it working today, finally, with www under the root. The home/username/www did not work.

I managed to create a subdomain and uploaded directly to it. In the folder structure, I just gave the name of the subdomain itself and uploaded there. None of this is obvious until you actually get it working.

My account is Canada-based, and OVH is opened under ...ca... I ordered a new domain, actually a transfer of my Magix on-line based domain, and was offered the price in £ instead of CAD. I went to chat with OVH and they gave me a link, telling me that I created my account in the wrong subsidiary and to open a new account. I tried the link, still in ...ca... and this time the order/transfer worked. Strange company.

John EB, looking at the multisite page and the account information, I get 5 multisites. However, the domain name is one, www.domain name is another, and the account name.cluster051.hosting.ovh.net is another. The first 2 go the same website, the third one goes nowhere, but it shows the same root folder as the other two. I would like to know from OVH why two of the three count as sites.

John CB

@browj2

Hi John

. . . . I would like to know from OVH why two of the three count as sites. . . .

The account name.cluster051.hosting.ovh.net is for FTP transfers (uploads) only, ie the URL address to which your site is uploaded via FTP and breaks down as follows:

account_name - the unique identifier for the your hosted account and webspace folder

cluster051 - the specific server cluster/group centre where the website is hosted see note below

hosting.ovh.net" - the web hosting sub domain of the OVHcloud platform.

Note. a specific group may consist of sub groups of servers which are spread across several data centres for reliability/redundancy.

. . . . the domain name is one, www.domain name is another . . . .

These as you have found are the actual website URLs, the difference being the www is a legacy 'component' which is no longer necessary and was used to identify the type of web service.

HTH

John EB

@johnebaker

Hi John EB,

Thanks for your reply. I will probably remove the www. sub domain to free up a slot. I can't see any reason to keep it.

John CB

@browj2

HI John

. . . . I will probably remove the www. sub domain to free up a slot . . . .

There should be no need to do this. if you want to host multiple websites see this article

John EB

@johnebaker

Hi John EB,

Thanks for the link, but I have been through most of the documentation, including the one in your link.

I have the Personal plan with what they call 5 recommended sites. In another web page, it says "Multi-sites" with 5 in the column. Look at the details for the 5 recommended sites: "Our web hosting plans can host one or more websites. Each one runs independently, with their own domain name or subdomain." I am reading the text literally as a limit of 5 Multi-sites, not 5 domains. A subdomain constitutes one site of the 5 Multi-sites, does it not? There is a screen in OVH that shows Associated Hosting Plans with the username.clusterxxx... and a separate heading with Sub-domains and Multi-sites with the main sitename, www.sitename, sub-domain.sitename. This is different from another screen that shows all 4 together under the Multisite tab, heading "Domain."

This is confusing, at least to me.

I have used up 4 slots and I have requested the transfer of my Magix on-line registered domain name. I'll see in a few days if the number of sites is limited to 5 domain names or 5 sites including subdomains along with the hosting site.

One other point, I was looking for something in OVH like WebFTP page with Magix on-line and Xara non-line that allows you to upload, delete, manage files, etc. The only thing that I could find is on the Hosting Plans page, the domain name, then FTP-SSH tab. This screen shows the username.clusterxxx..., and a button "FTP Explorer." Clicking on this button goes to a safe browse screen, Proceed anyways, and I get a Hosting in maintenance screen. However, my site is up and I used FileZilla to access it. So, what is the use of this FTP Explorer button?

John CB