still cannot see what i uploaded

[thea]

i followed the directions to upload my pages to the /big/dom/yoursite/www.

before i uploaded them i looked at them and they were what i wanted to upload. 2 problems:
1. still don't see them when i log on.
2. what i uploaded is not what i see, only the skeleton [the page with empty boxes for its jpg's] by clicking on it.

please help. i feel super dumb.

[Bob]

Hi Thea,

You didn't post an example URL for us to look at, however as I have a slight advantage over the others I took a peek and in one case I found a page that exhibited the behavior you mentioned. What it is trying to do is load the images from a non-existant directory /history_files while the image itself actually resides within the /www directory.

Simply change the link to just /example.gif or create the Directory, /history_files and place your images within it.

I hope this helps,
Bob

- It does help to be clairvoyant in this job occasionally! :QTbeam: -

[thea]

the other problem is that even though i put everything in a /www file it is still not visible. am not sure how to fix this as well as the image problem. i have had my site since the end of june and still cannot view it or use it.
should the /www directory not be part of the parent?

can you tell me how to fix the links on the server or do i have to repair it before uploading it?

please help.

thanks.

[sheila]

thea,

Bob had an advantage that the rest of us don't have...he apparently knows what your domain is and how to look at the files on your site.

If you are willing to tell us the URL of the page that you are having trouble with, maybe some of us could look at the HTML source and try to offer suggestions?

(If you don't want to post it here publicly, you can send me an email or Private Message and I'll take a look.)

Or, maybe Bob is hanging around, and it will quickly be Bob to the rescue??

[Deb]

I think what he posted here may help...
http://www.aota.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9365

As Sheila noted, without example code or a link it is extremely difficult to offer solutions. If you are able to either post your URL, or an example snippet of code, that will allow others to help a great deal. Remember "official tech support" cannot provide general html support but the Community as a whole can...as such you need to provide us a window to peak into :)

Deb
- The whatchamacallit is broken by the thingamajig

[thea]

I RENAMED MY HOME PAGE TO INDEX.HTM AND NOW IT SHOWS AS A BLANK. THAT'S A START I GUESS.:)

[sheila]

Yeah. Any progress is good at this point, no?

I looked at the source for your page, and find, for example, this:

<TD width=112><IMG height=97 alt="vsmallcrest.jpg (5047 bytes)"
src="amronet.old_files/vsmallcrest.jpg" width=116><BR></TD>


Did you create a directory under the www directory called amronet.old_files and put the images in there?

In order for the link above to work, that's where the file would have to be.

Otherwise, we need to know where the files are (either in the www folder with the index.html file, or else in some folder below the www directory), and change the link in your HTML file to match that location.

[thea]

WHERE DID YOU FIND THE SOURCE? THAT'S WHAT BOB WANTED ME TO EDIT.
I PUT ALL THE IMAGES IN WWW/IMAGES.

[sheila]

You can view your HTML files in any text editor. I have a small web page about text editors here:
http://www.thinkspot.net/sheila/computers/software/texteditors.html
that may help explain them a bit for you.
(It's a bit out of date, now, because I am now using TextPad, and have tried UltraEdit and ConTEXT, but just haven't updated the page.)

Probably the easiest thing to do (assuming you're on a Windows machine? Correct me if I'm wrong...), is to Go to
Start Menu>Programs>Accessories>Notepad

and start Notepad running, and then go to the File Menu in Notepad, and select "Open" and Open your copy of your index.htm file that you have on your own computer. This is one way for you to see the source, and you will be able to edit the file.

You can always view the source of any web page you are visiting in a web browser, as well. Just select the "View" menu of your web browser, and then from that menu choose something like "Source" or "Page Source" and you will be able to see the source code. However, you can't edit the code that way.

I sent you an email about one way you can fix this problem. However, if your images are all in www/images and you want to leave them in that folder, then you need to edit all of your IMG tags in your HTML document so that the src information looks something like this:

src="http://www.yourdomain.net/images/filename.jpg"

--getting there one step at a time--

[thea]

thank you for your help. i did as you suggested and now have most of my page up. i still have two problems. the important one is to attach my UBB to the page. it is floating in the www directory i think, or i'll check now and see if it is above that.

i'm indebted to you. you are obviously a good teacher.

do you know what should be in the parent directory? i'm getting an "internal server message" when i click on forums. [that used to be caused by a problem in cgi-bin.]

[sheila]

Hey, thea, great! You're making some real progress.

And now for the bad news: I think that most of your links on your website are pointing to files that are on a server that is not hosted at FutureQuest. For example, the link on your homepage for your UBB is this:
http://207.198.76.232/cgi-bin/Ultimate.cgi?action=intro

Those numbers, 207.198.76.232 are the IP address (a numerical address that can be used instead of a domain) for a server that is hosted some place like Netlimited.Net??? (Does this sound familiar to you?)

Also, the links for your history page and your members page and so on all have that number in them. I would assume, that whenever your old account gets turned off, all of those links are going to stop working.

Let's say that your domain is am.net, which is now being hosted at FutureQuest. Then, in order to access your files on the FutureQuest server, you need to change that IP address in the link to your domain name...something like this:
http://am.net/cgi-bin/Ultimate.cgi?action=intro

Let's work on the UBB after you have the links fixed so that they are pointing to FutureQuest. Right now the 500 Internal Server error you are getting is coming from the server at the IP address listed above. Let's debug your UBB on FutureQuest's server, OK? ;)

--getting there--

[thea]

The community forum has been the best. Thanks so much for your help.
Hopefully someone will also know how to connect my UBB, then I'll be in business! It's sitting in the www directory.

[Bob]

Hi again Thea,

Glad to hear, and see that things are getting better.

Actually your UBB is working fine, as I was just there:
http://yourdomain.net/cgi-bin/Ultimate.cgi

Replace "yourdomain" with your domain name and you will be able to see it. Looks pretty good.

Now it's just a matter of getting your links pointing to the real locations as Sheila pointed out.

Good Luck and Keep On Trucking :QTlight:
-Bob