Ok, I’m slow sometimes but I finally noticed that I could make folders inside the site folder, and so group my zillions of pages logically.
So I did. And dragged all the pages into the correct folders. It looked good.
I knew that “the folder structure will be reflected in the structure of the HTML pages generated by Freeway” so when I uploaded and saw that freeway was deleting the old website as it went I was not alarmed.
It was, I assumed, just installing the new structure.
But when I went to check, the entire website was 404 by all means of access.
I waited a few hours and did a couple more uploads just in case there was a cache issue, but nothing.
I can’t ring my isp because they are closed for the weekend, so I’m reinstalling the previous version, without the folders and it seems to be coming back again (it’ll be a while uploading yet as I have some big movies on there).
So - was I supposed to do something else when I made the folders?
Make sure the root/home/index page of your site (normally called index.html
or index.htm) isn’t in a folder as that’s the page a browser looks for when
you enter a website address.
Roger
On 10 August 2013 13:53, TomBliss email@hidden wrote:
Ok, I’m slow sometimes but I finally noticed that I could make folders
inside the site folder, and so group my zillions of pages logically.
So I did. And dragged all the pages into the correct folders. It looked
good.
I knew that “the folder structure will be reflected in the structure of
the HTML pages generated by Freeway” so when I uploaded and saw that
freeway was deleting the old website as it went I was not alarmed.
It was, I assumed, just installing the new structure.
But when I went to check, the entire website was 404 by all means of
access.
I waited a few hours and did a couple more uploads just in case there was
a cache issue, but nothing.
I can’t ring my isp because they are closed for the weekend, so I’m
reinstalling the previous version, without the folders and it seems to be
coming back again (it’ll be a while uploading yet as I have some big movies
on there).
So - was I supposed to do something else when I made the folders?
was I supposed to do something else when I made the folders?
Nope - but what you will probably find that your Browser was autocompleting links to the old pages that are no longer there.
The most important page is your index page which should have the file name of index.html and provided that it is at yoursite.com/index.html then your site will work fine.
If you have renamed that index page to something else or it is not at the root of your site that is when you will get into trouble.
I cleared the caches and also tried a browser I very seldom use, but that could still have been as reason I guess.
I haven’t renamed the index page, but it is inside a folder. Is that the problem? If I take it out and place it directly inside the site folder will that make a difference?