[Pro] uploading site

Not sure what I’m doing wrong, but when I upload the site to my server it doesn’t change, I use the upload within the software as well as Filezilla and for some reason it isn’t working, any suggestions?

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Can you give an example of what you’re expecting to see, and what you see instead?

Browsers, ISPs, and Hosting Providers all use caching as a means of speeding up your experience with the Web. It is possible that you are seeing a cached version of the page rather than the latest version you uploaded, and that this will persist until you “bust” the cache, or it gets stale and the caching layer decides to replace it.

Things to try to bust the cache:

  1. Hold down the Shift key and press the Reload button in your browser’s toolbar (usually a curly-arrow, depends on the exact make and model of browser).
  2. Add a querystring to the URL: in the Location field in your browser’s toolbar, click at the end of the visible address, and add a ?foo=bar style variable/value pair to the end of the URL. This won’t do anything to your page, but it should tell any intermediate cache layer that there is variable data, and therefore the request cannot be cached or satisfied from a cache.

If you host is caching the page on their server, there’s really nothing you can do besides wait to see the new content. Any work-around besides the “soft” ones above is likely to be more effort than it is worth. If you really can’t wait, you can hunt around in your cPanel on the server for any option that purports to “restart” the server. This may or may not be available to you, depending on the type of hosting you use and your user’s access level.

Ultimately, whatever you can see when you use Preview in Browser (on your Mac) or the regular Preview in Freeway is what new visitors to your site (who are not caching the page) will see anyway. You are statistically way more likely to run afoul of caches than anyone else (besides your client).

Walter

On May 24, 2014, at 8:16 AM, barnesto2 wrote:

Not sure what I’m doing wrong, but when I upload the site to my server it doesn’t change, I use the upload within the software as well as Filezilla and for some reason it isn’t working, any suggestions?

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I got on my friends mac to test it and it is still the same as what I see on my mac, no changes uploaded that I have made. Now… I copied this website from another computer and put it on my computer. I drug the whole file folder with all the support files and html pages. So that might be causing a problem. Is there a better way to get all the original Freeway doc’s and files and save everything into a folder so everything links? I tried what you suggested and still no changes on the test site. I’m a long time mac user since '85, so I understand the adobe system, but it doesn’t seem to be the same with Freeway.


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Freeway is not a code editor, like Adobe. It generates your site from a binary file (the .freeway file) into a site folder on your Mac that you specify within the Document Setup dialog. That folder on your Mac is then synched with your server’s site folder when you upload, and you see what you saw in Freeway on your public site.

If you have the .freeway file that generated the original site, then you can open that document in Freeway and make changes, and preview it in Freeway and upload it to your server from within Freeway. Any files that were in the site folder before you make those changes should be overwritten by Freeway when you make changes in the document. You can completely delete the contents of the site folder on your Mac with impunity – Freeway will fill that folder back up again as it publishes.

Think of the .freeway document as your QuarkXPress document or InDesign document, and the contents of the Site Folder as the out-tray of your printer. That’s the proper degree of separation between Freeway and its output files. After all, you don’t open a Quark document by holding the printed pages up the the screen. (Not meant to be snarky – just want you to fully appreciate how little Freeway cares for its output files.)

Walter

On May 24, 2014, at 9:12 AM, barnesto2 wrote:

I got on my friends mac to test it and it is still the same as what I see on my mac, no changes uploaded that I have made. Now… I copied this website from another computer and put it on my computer. I drug the whole file folder with all the support files and html pages. So that might be causing a problem. Is there a better way to get all the original Freeway doc’s and files and save everything into a folder so everything links? I tried what you suggested and still no changes on the test site. I’m a long time mac user since '85, so I understand the adobe system, but it doesn’t seem to be the same with Freeway.


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I use the upload within the software as well as Filezilla and for some reason it isn’t working, any suggestions?

Has it ever worked?

Can you give us an indication of a change that you have made and are not seeing on the live site? Ie “on the home page I changed the first line of text from blah to blah, blah”

Are you uploading into the correct folder? Different servers name their web served folders differently. It might be ‘public_html’ on 1 ‘htdocs’ on another and ‘www’ on a third.

And to reiterate what Walter said - Only the files in the FW created ‘Site Folder’ should be uploaded.

To make sure you are using the correct one use File>Document Setup to choose/create a new one on your HD and give it a distinctive name.Tthe next time you Publish it will be populated with all the files you need to Upload to your server.

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Thanks Guys,

Being so new to this it all makes sense now. I guess pulling the files from another drive it was still building the site on that drive. Went into doc setup and it was on the wrong folder so when I changed it all worked and uploaded fine. After you know this stuff you feel silly for not knowing. Thanks again, I’m on the right track.


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