Can't update comic, tried the easy stuff already

[Ayame Ex_Goddess]

My comic won't update. I know this is kind of a routine problem, however I have tried the usual suggestions. I have cleared my browsers' cache and tried reloading, I have tried to do a hard refresh on the page but it doesn't work either. In the FTP it says it's in public, (curiously, there is still one in workspace also) and I have been trying to manually update since last night. We're still supposed to do that on siteadmin.comicgenesis.com right?

[Kisai]

you are uploading your comic to /workspace/comics right? there should -never- be a comic in both /public_html/comics and /workspace/comics of the same name, otherwise it simply will fail copying it over.

(it is supposed to overwrite it though, if it's not, that's new to me)

There is a log file in the site's root that you can peek through, or post the rss.xml file here so we can look at it.

[JTorch]

there should -never- be a comic in both /public_html/comics and /workspace/comics of the same name, otherwise it simply will fail copying it over.

(it is supposed to overwrite it though, if it's not, that's new to me)

So have you tried deleting the one that's in public_html already, and then updating?

[Ayame Ex_Goddess]

Alrighty, I was able to update my comic by going into SiteAdmin and uploading it through the upload box at the bottom of the page. However, before that I did delete the duplicate file in workspace. That didn't work. I then deleted the one in public_html and tried to re-upload it. That also didn't work. My concern is that there is something wrong with my FTP client, which will suck when I need to manually update the page itself.

I would be happy to post an rss.xml file, sadly, I have no idea how to do that.

Thanks much for the help sofar. This is one of the reasons I stick with ComicGen ^..^

[JTorch]

For curiosity's sake, what FTP client do you use?

[Ayame Ex_Goddess]

FileZilla

Buh duh duh da! FILEZILLA! Crushing all within his path!
Bah Dah DA DA! FILEZILLA! Could sorely use a bath!

....and then it kinda keeps going on like that.

[Dr Neo Lao]

I think that this is how it's done: If you can access your files via ftp, the rss.xml file should be sitting right next to the index.html (note: not the indextemplate.html file!) in the public_html folder.

Alternatively, just put rss.xml at the end of the url for your comic and it'll display (best done in IE or a browser that does not have an rss viewer enabled).

Simply copy + paste into your next post.

This is what your rss file is saying now:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
- <rss version="2.0">
- <channel>
<title>Newscast</title>
<link>http://newscast.comicgenesis.com</link>
<description>A floundering news show is given a second chance when a group of oddball aliens join the newsteam</description>
<generator>auto_magic idx (0):1 PI:12445</generator>
<language>en-us</language>
<ttl>1440</ttl>
<copyright>Copyright 2003-2007 Kevin Nelson</copyright>
<lastBuildDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 20:00:03 +0000</lastBuildDate>
- <item>
<guid isPermaLink="true">http://newscast.comicgenesis.com/d/20070904.html</guid>
<title>Newscast for 20070904</title>
<description>A floundering news show is given a second chance when a group of oddball aliens join the newsteam [Numcomics: 135]</description>
<link>http://newscast.comicgenesis.com/d/20070904.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 20:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
</item>
</channel>
</rss>

NOTE: Copy your rss file before you do any manual updates so that we can see what the automatic functions are doing.