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Re: Problems with website publishing
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lugnet.publish
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Fri, 28 Dec 2001 22:26:05 GMT
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In lugnet.publish, Allan Bedford writes:
> In lugnet.publish, Curt Tigges writes:
> > Hello, everybody,
> > I have been having problems recently with publishing my website (which was
> > made using Microsft FrontPage). I have signed up for free website hosting
> > with ozBricks. I received an email telling me that my account was now
> > active. Here is the main content of the message:
> >
> > "Thanks for signing up for a FREE ozBricks.com hosting account! Your account
> > is now active..
> >
> > Your NEW url is: http://www.ozbricks.com/ulfstarforce
> >
> > IMPORTANT - please read before uploading for the first time.......
> > 1) The first file must be called index.html or index.htm
> > 2) All files must be uploaded into the /www directory otherwise no-one on
> > the internet can access them"
> >
> > The rest is just account information.
> > I used FrontPage to publish my website. It came up with a message saying
> > that FrontPage Extensions was not installed on the server I was pulishing to
> > and that I would have publish using FTP (File Transfer Protocol). I figured
> > that this was OK, so I clicked OK and entered the account information in the
> > corresponding fields. Everything seemed to go okay from then on up to the
> > point where the website was finished being uploaded to the server. Then it
> > came up with a message that said "Click here to view your website". I
> > clicked on it and Internet Explorer came up with a "Page not found" message.
> > I don't really know anything about website publishing, so I desperately need
> > some help. If anyone has any suggestions, please contact me or respond to my
> > post.
>
> Curt, you mentioned that the 'homepage' file must be called index.html or
> index.htm. I guess my first thought would be to check and see what name you
> saved you file as, when working in Front Page.
I did have a page saved as index.htm, but now that mention it, I don't know
if it was my home page. How do you set a page to be the home page using
FrontPage?
> Second, you mentioned that you were unable to upload via Front Page, so it
> was going to have you use FTP. How did you accomplish this? Which app did
> you use?
Well, I wasn't very clear when I said that. What I meant was that when
FrontPage found out that FrontPage Server Extensions was was not installed
on the server, FrontPage uploaded using FTP instead of HTTP.
> Are you certain that if you did successfully FTP the files, that
> they got into the right directory? It could be that you do have an
> index.htm file, but just loaded into the wrong directory.
I'm pretty sure that I uploaded it into the right directory.
Thanks,
Curt Tigges
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