Comics not Archiving

VinnieD · Post by **VinnieD** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 7:44 pm

For the past month whenever a comic image file goes into the archive, the accompanying html page in /d is not generated. Thus far I've kept up by manually creating this page, but this is only a temporary solution. I need to know the root of the problem.

Dr Neo Lao · Post by **Dr Neo Lao** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 12:17 am

Check your dailytemplate.html file.

There have been some hiccups on the server, but generally they have been a case of update / no update rather than a partial update.

From the description you give, it seems that your dailytemplate.html file is either missing (in the wrong folder) or mis-named (maybe .htm instead of .html or not spelled correctly?).

VinnieD · Post by **VinnieD** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 1:16 am

Yes dailytemplate.html is in place. It hasn't really moved or been altered. It just suddenly stopped working.

It is named exactly "dailytemplate.html"

no caps, it is uploaded to the workspace/webpages folder, it is for the most part identical to my indextemplate.html with the shoutbox and dropdown code removed for faster loading.

I could understand if an error in my coding had caused non functional pages to appear, but it seems that the server isn't even attempting to generate a page in /d.

Then again my archive pages never did look much like the dailytemplate I coded, so it seems the server has always been ignoring my dailytemplate, and has up until now been creating a page based on a default setting.

Post by **Mercury Hat** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 1:43 am

I think this might have happened to some people before in the past. Try reuploading your dailytemplate then running an update to see if that fixes it. If not, you might need to PM one of the admins to see if they can straighten it out, since it could be a problem with your account and not anything you can fix.

VinnieD · Post by **VinnieD** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 2:43 am

Trying that now. The update seems to be taking a while. I'll know tomorrow I suppose.

Tinkerbell · Post by **Tinkerbell** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 3:00 am

When I first joined Cgen I had this problem, but a quick PM to the admins sorted it out fairly quickly.

Tink

Tashasworld · Post by **Tashasworld** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 5:23 am

I thought dailytemplete.html was supposed to be in /workspace, not /workspace/webpages?

Miru · Post by **Miru** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 7:19 am

tashasworld wrote:I thought dailytemplete.html was supposed to be in /workspace, not /workspace/webpages?

That's what I thought, as well. At least, mine's there and has been working fine from day one on.

Dr Neo Lao · Post by **Dr Neo Lao** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 3:42 pm

Yes. Both templates need to be in the workspace folder, with any additional pages in the workspace/webpages folder.

If the indextemplate.html file is in the workspace folder and the dailytemplate.html file is in the workspace/webpages folder then it won't work.

VinnieD · Post by **VinnieD** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 7:10 pm

.....wow....I feel seriously stupid now.

Though in all fairness the tutorial does list the templates after the /webpages section, while being rather vague.

But now I'm quite surprised it ever worked at all. I shall fix it now. thanks everyone.

Dr Neo Lao · Post by **Dr Neo Lao** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 4:04 am

Vinnie: If you're still reading this thread can you let us know which tutorial had the vague info on it and we'll try and clear it up...

VinnieD · Post by **VinnieD** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 9:06 pm

Certainly

http://gear.comicgenesis.com/cadet/StepByStepGuide.html

workspace
Ok, we're at the theater again. We have a stage. What else? Oh, a BACKSTAGE! That's what this is. This is where all the nitty gritty is set up and prepared for the stage. In this folder has the following files and folders in it:

/comics (What? Again?)
/webpages

indextemplate.html
dailytemplate.html

It may just be because I'm a bit of an oldschool user, so I'm very used to command line interfaces, so to me that looks like a directory structure indicating indextemplate.html and dailytemplate.html are in the /webpages sub directory.

http://gear.comicgenesis.com/ensign/Breakdown.html
this one doesn't mention where to upload at all. Redundant information yes, but sometimes redundancy is good, especially when learning new information.

It may just be me though.

Dr Neo Lao · Post by **Dr Neo Lao** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 4:51 am

Darnit! That Gear stuff keeps cropping up.

Yeah, the welcome message and stuff needs to be updated to tell people to read the Wiki and ignore the Gear. Problem is, regular users can't get at the Gear to update it...

Well, thanks for letting us know!