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areed3
12-02-1998, 09:43 PM
I have uploaded my files to the server, but they continually do not show up on the web. They do not have capitals in the name and the path is the same, yet it does this for a few of the pages. The main page address is www.weaseltimes.com and the page with the problems is www.weaseltimes.com/clough and www.weaseltimes.com/history and www.weaseltimes.com/reed
Deb
12-02-1998, 10:02 PM
Hi areed,

If you view the source of www.weaseltimes.com/reed.htm you'll notice the body tag reads like this:

<BODY BACKGROUND="file:///C|/WINDOWS/Webpagestuff/benhur.gif">

It is trying to find the image on your own hard drive rather then from the server.

If you change it to
<BODY BACKGROUND="benhur.gif">

all should work fine....

This is a very common mistake when using editors.. they love to put in the full local paths.. it'll take some getting used to and you will quickly see how to avoid that from happening.

The best way is to save your html page before editing it into the same directory as your images... then begin editing.. this will prevent it from adding the full paths.

Hope this helps
Deb
pqwabbit
12-04-1998, 01:04 AM
I foundthat I have to disable the save html in same folder as images thingy or like my code gets totally messed - like my images will be in the /images folder but then I go to save my html and the silly thing changes the path to reflect thhem being in the same folder at the html - aaargh - drove me nuts for months til I figured out how to disabvle that - I would have to go back in and recode the whole dang thing in notepad after netscape would screw it up. If your images are really inthe same folder onthe server of course - this isn't a problem
*sigh*
one of many reasons to edit raw - as long as I keep that same folder feature off - while we're onteh topic of folders I find it's easier if my directory structure on my computer mirrors that on my site.
makes it really easy to upload to - it's already all sorted by folder just the way you want it to go one your site.

Lea