Affinity.com tried to help me and spent considerable amount of time on the tel with me. They accessed my phpdig/spider and indexed various websites on their server (both dedicated servers and shared servers). All the dedicated server websites were spidered correctly. All the shared server websites, like mine, failed as expected.
Affinity.com does not have a method for:
1) Accessing my website via
www.affinity.com/~mywebsite/
2) Providing a real fixed TCP/IP address on a temporary basis without a costly upgrade.
Affinity.com also played around with the robots.txt and hosts file in my website and none of the changes allowed phpdig to spider my website. In essence, after considerable time on the part of Affinity.com, we reached the end of the line and there is no solution.
It occurs to me that a solution is to have someone from the outside spider my website with phpdig and ftp the mysql database to my website. Does this make sense? Will it work? Can someone in this board do it for me?
I would hate to have spent all this time installing and troubleshooting the application to have it fail.
Thanks