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Re: Problems with website publishing
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lugnet.publish
Date: 
Tue, 1 Jan 2002 01:24:12 GMT
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In lugnet.publish, Curt Tigges writes:
> In lugnet.publish, Allan Bedford writes:
> > In lugnet.publish, Curt Tigges writes:
> > > In lugnet.publish, Michael Golaszewski writes:

<snip>

> > > > You may also need to be careful when naming your directory.. ie: one of them
> > > > ends with ".web" , but it is a directory though, so maybe change it to
> > > > remove the " . "
> > > 
> > > What directory are you talking about? The one on my computer?
> > 
> > Both the one on your PC, and the one on the server.
> 
> Ah. Now I understand. It did end in .WEB, so I guess I'd better change it.

OH, NO!!!!!! I just realized that changing the name of the folder involves
repairing TWO-HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-FOUR LINKS manually!!!!

> > If this is to be a simple set of webpages, then do yourself a favor and keep
> > all the files in one directory.
> 
> Actually, both unfortunatly and fortunatly, it is not a simple set of
> webpages. It contains 172 files, including 140 pictures and 16 pages. But,
> all the files are in one directory (UnitedLF.WEB) or a subdirectory of
> UnitedLF.WEB.
> 
> > But remember that some HTML programs will
> > read in the path to the file on your own computer and put that in the code.
> > This becomes something called an 'absolute path'.  What you really want is
> > something like the example I described above, which is called a 'relative
> > path'.  The idea being that the code works equally well on both your PC and
> > once the files have been uploaded to the server.
> 
> Does that mean that I need to change the internal links in my website to the
> full internet path?

Curt Tigges
The guy who will probably never have a website :-)



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  Re: Problems with website publishing
 
One of the features of FrontPage is that you can do a search and replace across the entire site. Most people who look down upon FrontPage have never fully utilized it. If you let it and understand it, it's a very powerful tool. Yes, it does write (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-02, to lugnet.publish)

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(...) Or other pages, or links. (...) You mean is contrast with the old MS-DOS limitations of eight characters, a period, and three characters for an extension? I made sure that none of the file names or directories had spaces in the filenames, just (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-02, to lugnet.publish)

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