After an email to the host i found out i needed my first page to be named index.htm to be viewed from my abrucephotography.co.uk URL (from the host: “need to named the first page index.htm instead of default.htm And you need to replace Mr.Site index.htm page with your index.htm page.”)
Now i’ve renamed my first page index.htm and tried to upload a few times not only through the freeway ftp and cyberduck ftp.
Any help on what i’m doing wrong would be really appreciated.
Thanks
Andrew Bruce
Sometime around 5/7/08 (at 06:47 -0400) ABruce said:
i’ve renamed my first page index.htm and tried to upload a few times
not only through the freeway ftp and cyberduck ftp.
It sounds to me like you changed the page title, not the file name.
The page title is what shows at the top of a browser window in the
title bar area. The file name is literally the filename of the
document.
Both can be set in the Inspector palette in Freeway - put whatever
you like into the page title, then make sure you’ve set the right
thing to be called “index.htm”.
By the way, in the page titles in your site, you don’t need to use
underscores or run words together. For example, instead of
“thetoiletscene”, you can use “The toilet scene, a collection of
abstract photos” (or whatever), and instead of “Ectopia_menu” you
could use "Ectopia page, presenting two recent projects.
Page titles are entirely distinct from file names. (Although Freeway
will default to making the file name for you by trimming down the
page title, at least until you edit the file name manually.)
No, i’d got the right file names. They still don’t seem to be uploading from freeway (i make sure the file names are correct, upload, but they are unchanged on the web).
Now trying to use Cuberduck FTP (but getting very bogged down with the number of files i’ve got now from trying to sort this out)
Just to make sure i’ve got this right. When uploading via an FTP programme like cyberduck, you only need the .html files and the contents (image or music files etc…) to be uploaded (and not the .freeway document).
Just to make sure i’ve got this right. When uploading via an FTP
programme like cyberduck, you only need the .html files and the
contents (image or music files etc…) to be uploaded (and not
the .freeway document).
That’s right. To make it simpler, what you need is the entire
contents of the folder that your site publishes into on your hard
disk. No need to pick and choose among them, everything in that folder
needs to be replicated on your server. Contents only, that is - don’t
upload the folder.
Desperation and madness has got the better of me as i can’t see why it’s not working and i’ve decided to just start the website again… hopefully things will ‘just work’ this time…
Things are never easy
Desperation and madness has got the better of me as i can’t see why
it’s not working and i’ve decided to just start the website again…
hopefully things will ‘just work’ this time…
Things are never easy
This on is, though. Don’t give up, just sort this tiny thing out.
Here’s a couple of screenshots I knocked up that might help you:
And don’t forget that you host may be caching the server, so your
results may not show up immediately. Or you might need to clear the
cache in your browser for the same effect.
Sometime around 5/7/08 (at 14:14 +0100) Paul Bradforth said:
don’t forget that you host may be caching the server, so your
results may not show up immediately.
This is a serious point to consider. Recently someone here had a
problem where the web host was cacheing a complete folder that they’d
had on their site. They deleted it, but it was still available and
browsable for a shockingly long time afterwards.
Ask your web host whether their web server cache could be to blame.
If it is, and if they don’t fix this, find a different web host.
Thanks alot for the screenshots Paul, i’m absolutely sure my main page is index.htm now (so i’m hoping it is just the web server cache being slow now)
Also my host says nothing about the directory so this is also something to look into…
For now i think i’ll wait a few hours, see if anything happens, and if it dousn’t i’ll email the host again and see what they say.
Thanks alot for the screenshots Paul, i’m absolutely sure my main
page is index.htm now (so i’m hoping it is just the web server cache
being slow now)
Also my host says nothing about the directory so this is also
something to look into…
Then it’s probably either a slash, or blank. Are you able to log into
your server with Cyberduck? If you can, the directory setting is the
same as that.
Right well, turned out i just had to move all contents of the site into a wwwroot folder on the server.
So finally www.abrucephotography.co.uk is online!
(time to open a bottle of champagne i think!)
