Serious website html/php issue

Doooford

Hi all. Basically, I've just made a massive boo boo.
I have been messing around installing and testing PHPlist on my website. I now want to revert to how it was, but wen going to the main url, I just get a message "
You will probably want to replace this document with your own website." and then get redirected to php.com.

I'm going to show my lack f knowledge by asking this, but which file does the browser look at when you just type is https://www.mysite.co.uk? I really need to get this resolved asap as I'm bricking it a bit. I'm sure it's something obvious, even just a temporary workaround would be great until I have some more time to look at it.
Any help greatly appreciated!
Many thanks :A

fwor

To get meaningful answers you are probably going to need to say more about your environment.

Are you running the website on a server that you own, or is it hosted? If the former, which web server software are you using? The default file locations will be different for Apache versus MS IIS, for example.

If hosted, who with?

Doooford

Does anyone have any ideas about this?
I'm pulling my hair out.

Doooford

It's being hosted, but I'm not sure of the details if it's Apache or not. I've added the file .htaccess which made no differnce. is there an easy way to tell which environment it is on?
It is hosted by a private company :mad:
About to bring it in house.

PasturesNew

During your installation, messing about, did you change the server set up so it was specifically looking to run an index.php file, rather than leaving it to run whatever index.* file it found (eg index.html, index.htm, index.php).

I am wondering if you changed the server to say "run a php file...." and now you've removed that and your default home page is something else, an .html or .htm or .asp file... just a thought as you've not supplied much info.

Doooford

All I did was transfer the phplist directory over to where the site is hosted. I haven't got any further than this as I ran out of time. Only discovered earlier that it had changed the default page. My index.php file is still in place and I can get to the front page by https://www.mysite.co.uk/index.php, but it isn't defaulting to it.
It looks like I've somehow messed about with something though doesn't it?

pcombo

PHPLIST as in??
You shouldn't need to install php on webhosting.

PasturesNew

Can you rename/remove the .htaccess file and see if it starts working again by magic (make it so you can put it back again if that makes no difference).

(P.S. I am making this all up by the way).

Doooford

It made no difference. Is there any way I can cover all bases?
I don't understand where the file is that is even transferring the page to phplist.com!

PasturesNew

My money is vaguely on it not knowing to use a .php, so it's expecting something else (it's expecting index.html, index.htm or index.asp) ... but as I said, I've no idea I'm just guessing at stuff that I vaguely remember being issues many years ago when I had similar problems.

pcombo

you trying to install phplist ;O.