I have two family sites - just for family and friends - but each picks up bits of the other and I’ve no idea why. Checking them out in Firefox in Tiger (iMac G5) I recognise bits of text from the other site. Only way to sort it is to re-upload each site; not very satisfactory! I’d appreciate advice from the gurus on here on where I’m going wrong
The sites are http://www.neilmcadam.co.uk/family.html and http://www.neilmcadam.co.uk/Jacob.html
Both were created in Freeway 4 but I’m now using 5.1.1
Cache issues, perhaps. Are you seeing this locally, when previewing
on your local disk? Freeway uses a highly deterministic naming scheme
for images and html objects. It is quite likely that you have a large
number of filenames in common between the sites, and when you
compound that with the fact that every Freeway site stores its files
in /Resources, you have the recipe for seeing what you do.
Try holding down the Shift or Option key and then pressing the Reload
button in your browser’s navigation bar. That will often wake a
slumbering Safari.
Walter
On Jul 22, 2008, at 1:02 PM, Highmac wrote:
Don’t know how else to describe it.
I have two family sites - just for family and friends - but each
picks up bits of the other and I’ve no idea why. Checking them out
in Firefox in Tiger (iMac G5) I recognise bits of text from the
other site. Only way to sort it is to re-upload each site; not very
satisfactory! I’d appreciate advice from the gurus on here on where
I’m going wrong
The sites are http://www.neilmcadam.co.uk/family.html and http://www.neilmcadam.co.uk/Jacob.html
Both were created in Freeway 4 but I’m now using 5.1.1
From the links provided, both sites are publishing to the same server folder. You will always battle the symptoms described with this route.
The safest bet here is to actually split the two sites into their own folders. instead of …mcadam.co.uk/family.html > …macdam.co.uk/family/index.html and similar for the other page.
This would put the two into their own independent locations, and the chance of interference between the two would drop to near zero.
You may need to fiddle a bit to actually get the folders created on the server, but the change should be as simple as change the upload dialog to include the path to the folder.
If you do decide to go ahead with both Freeway documents publishing into the same folder, then you can get away from this problem by doing a little dance:
Set both documents to publish into the same local folder on your hard disk
Publish the first document into the local folder.
Publish the second document into the local folder
Go back and publish the first document again
Now, you can upload from both documents, and all of the cross-site dependencies will be resolved.
Freeway will never overwrite a file that the current document did not publish. Whenever it encounters such “foreign” content, it will rename the resource it is trying to publish to avoid a clash.
You will see this behavior documented if you go to the “Splitting a Site” tutorial or search the KnowledgeBase for “splitting”.
Many thanks - as a temporary measure I’ve split the Jacob site into a new folder http://www.neilmcadam.co.uk/jacob/Jacob.html
and hopefully will get down to sorting it out properly this weekend. Hobbies have to take second place to things like gardening and decorating
Thanks again for your patient helpfulness with a novice!
PS - I wouldn’t even have known the proper term was “splitting”. And I’ve given my son the new url to pass on!
