Uploading Problem

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I’m a newbie to building a web site. Freeway is the only program I
have ever used. I used Freeway Express for a week, then upgraded to
Pro this evening.

I have a java package that displays a chess game (.pgn format) on a
chess board and allows one to walk through each move on the move list
while showing the moves on the chess board. The package includes
sample .htm pages, .pgn files containing move lists, .gif files, and
java .class files.

I manually put the java package in a new subfolder under the existing
site folder created by Freeway. Freeway imported/converted the
sample .htm pages easily. I was able to edit those pages (making
then .html) and save them easily. Freeway seems to have preserved the
html code in those pages, and I am able to do extremely rudimentary
editing of that code manually (e.g. change the name of the sample .pgn
move-list file to the name of a .pgn move-list file that I created for
one of my games).

I got the java program working as part of my web site, to the extent
of previewing it in Firefox. However, when I uploaded to my .mac home
page, a lot of files in the subfolder were not uploaded. The missed
files included the .pgn text files, the .gif files, and the
java .class files. To get the java program working on my .mac home
page, I had to upload the missed files manually using iDisk, outside
of Freeway, because Freeway did not copy them to my .mac web page.

QUESTION: how do I get Freeway to upload the missed files that are
part of my web site?

As noted above, the subfolder containing the java package was created
manually outside Freeway. The successfully imported and edited .html
web pages are in that subfolder. Those .html web pages are
successfully uploaded, but everything else in that subfolder is not
uploaded by Freeway. How do I make Freeway “adopt” those other files
and upload them as part of the web site?

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On Feb 24, 2008, at 2:26 AM, James F. Marshall wrote:

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QUESTION: how do I get Freeway to upload the missed files that are
part of my web site?

As noted above, the subfolder containing the java package was created
manually outside Freeway. The successfully imported and edited .html
web pages are in that subfolder. Those .html web pages are
successfully uploaded, but everything else in that subfolder is not
uploaded by Freeway. How do I make Freeway “adopt” those other files
and upload them as part of the web site?

You have two choices here. One would be to simply use an FTP
application like Transmit to put up the files that Freeway didn’t
create. That’s the key here – Freeway only moves files that it knows
about, and anything it didn’t create, it ignores.

The other would be to use the Upload Stuff or Extra Resources Actions
(both available from the Softpress KnowledgeBase) to manage the
uploads. This has some minor potential for drama, since Freeway will
rename files on upload in order to avoid filename clashes. But if you
are careful about not using the Action to upload a file that already
exists (delete it from your server and your local publish folder
first) then you should be fine. Upload Stuff allows you to specify
that the file you are uploading will go into the Resources folder or
into the same folder as the page you have applied the action to.
Depending on the file layout required by your Java program, you can
probably get the results you are looking for using that Action.

Walter

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On Feb 24, 2008, at 9:46 AM, Walter Lee Davis wrote:

application like Transmit

Transmit seems the way to go. Thanks.

Jim

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