Howdy craigeperkins,
One of the remote files, that is, the files that are on your
web server, was a file that was called "index.htm." Since
the files you were uploading did not include that file, and
since you told your program to do so, it deleted the remote
"index.htm" file. This was your homepage, which is the page
that opens up first when someone goes to your website.
It appears you have a copy of a "index.htm" file for "Yandara
Yoga Institute" inside a folder named "Yandara" on (I am making
an educated guess here) both your machine and the remote/server
machine. You also have a file named "newindex.htm" which refers
to the "Yandara Yoga Institute" as well. There is a file named
"indextest.htm" that refers to a "Trillium Retreat Center."
Copy the file you want to be your homepage, name it "index.htm"
(without the quotation marks), make sure it is in your main website
publishing or FTP directory, and publish/upload your site, or
publish/upload just the "index.htm" file to your main directory
on the server.
It appears you have used WS_FTP at one time and you might want
to use it to correct this problem this time, i.e., use WS_FTP
to upload the index.htm file you want to use as your current
homepage for the website.
If you need any clarification, feel free to ask.
Search Strategy: Personal experience of doing pretty much the
same thing too many times.
Looking Forward, denco-ga |
Clarification of Answer by
denco-ga
on
12 Sep 2003 16:16 PDT
Howdy craigeperkins,
In the "Yandara" folder, you also have a file named "index2.htm"
which might be the file you are trying to make your main web page.
If that is the case, copy that file from the Yandara folder on
your machine, name it index.htm and upload it to your website,
preferably using a program such as WS_FTP.
You can also try putting that file in the same folder on your
machine that contains the "indextest.htm" file and try using
FrontPage to republish the site. The directory that has the
"indextest.htm" file appears to be your main publishing folder.
Looking Forward, denco-ga
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Request for Answer Clarification by
craigeperkins-ga
on
12 Sep 2003 16:55 PDT
I have the index.htm on my local site. in the yandara folder. I tried
publishing it by both frontpage publish and FTP. they both appear to
be uploading but when I check the site there is no home page. What am
I missing.
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Request for Answer Clarification by
craigeperkins-ga
on
12 Sep 2003 17:01 PDT
denco-ga are you allowed to email me clearview@zensearch.com this is
an email account I rarely use so I don't mind posting up here
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Clarification of Answer by
denco-ga
on
12 Sep 2003 17:04 PDT
Howdy craigeperkins,
When using FTP to upload the file, make sure you are not
in the "Yandara" folder on the remote machine, but rather
in the directory (your remote's "Parent Directory") that
is one above the "Yandara" directory.
Most FTP programs will have a "crooked" arrow at the top
of the remote directory listing, which when clicked, will
take you up a directory.
What appears to be happening currently is that the file
is getting tranferred, but to the remote "Yandara" folder
and not to the "one up" "Parent Directory."
Looking Forward, denco-ga
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Clarification of Answer by
denco-ga
on
12 Sep 2003 17:06 PDT
Howdy craigeperkins,
Google Answer Researchers are not allowed to contact people
outside the Google Answers forum.
Sorry, denco-ga
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Request for Answer Clarification by
craigeperkins-ga
on
12 Sep 2003 17:24 PDT
I got the web site back up but no pictures
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Request for Answer Clarification by
craigeperkins-ga
on
12 Sep 2003 17:37 PDT
Ok I'll try it
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Clarification of Answer by
denco-ga
on
12 Sep 2003 19:01 PDT
Looks like everything is working for you, craigeperkins.
Glad to have been of help, and thanks for the 5 star rating
and the tip.
Some feedback on your site, if you don't mind.
You might want to set up your menu selections as links to
folders (subdirectories) instead of anchor links.
So instead of the "About Yandara" link being:
http://www.yandara.com/#about Yandara
You would make a folder named something like "about" and in
there you would put an "index.htm" file which would contain
all of the "about" information, along with any pictures from
that section, such as the SY01660_.gif image. The link to
the "about" information, would then be:
http://www.yandara.com/about/
This will reduce (by large amounts) the load time for your
entire site, especially the homepage.
Looking Forward, denco-ga
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