In desperate need of help

Executor_Arthas · Post by **Executor_Arthas** » Tue Jan 13, 2004 11:53 am

I'm starting to get pissed off with this FTP server. I got my page up finally sunday night, but the images weren't working. Then lastnight me and a friend worked for almost five hours trying to get the images to work, and not only do they still not work, the damn site doesn't even work now!!! (my site's http://eternaldestinies.keenspace.com)

Phalanx · Post by **Phalanx** » Tue Jan 13, 2004 3:29 pm

?! Your index page is missing. That's causing the 403/404 error. Did you delete it or something?

Executor_Arthas · Post by **Executor_Arthas** » Tue Jan 13, 2004 4:31 pm

No, I replaced it with my new one after I fixed some of the stuff!!! An this is REALLY pissing me off, I've tried EVERYTHING. I've been at it for over 7 damn hours in the past two days alone!!! I don't know what to do, can you help me out please? Oh, and I give you permission to do whatever's necessary to get the damn thing running again!!! All I wanted was my images!!!

CodeGuy · Post by **CodeGuy** » Tue Jan 13, 2004 4:42 pm

Are you making the index.html page by uploading an indextemplate.html to workspace and the doing a manual update?

Phalanx · Post by **Phalanx** » Tue Jan 13, 2004 5:43 pm

CodeGuy: I think he did it manually; I can see the plain-jane version of his indextemplate- that would've generated the index otherwise...

Unfortunately I have no access to your account, only the admins can do that.

What exactly did you do anyway? Could you give us some detailed descriptions so we can figure out what went wrong?

KittyKatBlack · Post by **KittyKatBlack** » Tue Jan 13, 2004 5:47 pm

Also, as for the images not working, you have to use the format:

<img src="/images/imagename.jpg"> for it to register. If you don't put that extra slash, it tries to search for the images in the /d/images/ directory, which doesn't exsist.

Executor_Arthas · Post by **Executor_Arthas** » Wed Jan 14, 2004 7:04 am

Yeah, I tried that slash thing, but AFTER I found that out, the site just crashed! Anyways, I was asking people to help me fix my site, so I got a friend to help me reformat it. She added in some of the keenspace tags, sent it back to me, and when I uploaded it, the site never worked!!! then I tried fixing the code, by taking the back-up tags that you guys put in the tagtutorial and FAQ, and it still didn't work!!!

Faub · Post by **Faub** » Wed Jan 14, 2004 7:31 am

Move all the image files from /public_html/comics to /workspace/comics. Delete all the html files in /public_html/d/ and leave indextemplate.html and dailytemplate.html alone. Then run a full update to see if you get an index.html. Your /workspace/indextemplate.html is the basic version but that should be good enough for testing.

Make sure you can see your comics then start messing with the indextemplate and dailytemplate.

Executor_Arthas · Post by **Executor_Arthas** » Wed Jan 14, 2004 7:35 am

But that's the thing, it's in the images folder, because they're just images that I want to show-up on the site. and as far as comics go, I couldn't scan them in yet because I've been too busy with this damn site, so I can't scan them till friday anyways now when I go out to my mom's house where she has a scanner.

Executor_Arthas · Post by **Executor_Arthas** » Wed Jan 14, 2004 8:42 am

I just got it to work, thanks all of you guys for your help!

YarpsDat · Post by **YarpsDat** » Wed Jan 14, 2004 1:22 pm

Just curious: what did you do to break it, and how did you fix it?
That way it will be easier to help the next person with the same problem.

Executor_Arthas · Post by **Executor_Arthas** » Thu Jan 15, 2004 6:16 am

I deleted everything like you guys said in the html respect on my ftp server in the public domain, then I went back to check the source path in my account for the index page, and then I realized that when my friend was helping me, she accidently spelled it Index.html, while the source was index.html.....

sorry for all this trouble over something so stupid, but now I need to upload my other pages for the site, but I can't get that to work, so could you guys help me out again please? I submitted the links page to my webpages folder, and on my main site, I had:
<tr><TD ALIGN=center>
<A HREF="links.html"><H2>Links</H2>
</TD></TR></TABLE>

</td>

(I have a table index type thingy for navigation)

YarpsDat · Post by **YarpsDat** » Thu Jan 15, 2004 6:47 am

Executor_Arthas wrote:I deleted everything like you guys said in the html respect on my ftp server in the public domain, then I went back to check the source path in my account for the index page, and then I realized that when my friend was helping me, she accidently spelled it Index.html, while the source was index.html..... sorry for all this trouble over something so stupid, but now I need to upload my other pages for the site, but I can't get that to work, so could you guys help me out again please? I submitted the links page to my webpages folder, and on my main site, I had:
<tr><TD ALIGN=center>
<A HREF="links.html"><H2>Links</H2>
</TD></TR></TABLE>

</td>

(I have a table index type thingy for navigation)

Consider checking the "Disable HTML in this post" box when posting html.
(and the code is missing a closing </a>)

Weird, links.html is where it should be, if you requested an update it should be copied to public folder...

Oh, so you're editing index.html yourself.
I wonder why.
Your indextemplate still looks like default, and it will overwrite your index.html the moment you trigger an update (or every day at midnight or something)- since it didn't I assume you didn't request a site update.

And where is the ***advertisement*** tag in your links?
You just pasted the ad code there. While it's not necessarily wrong _NOW_, it may be wrong any moment, if the advertisement system gets updated.
Indextemplate is the html that is used to generate your index.html. You can put tags like ***previous_day***, and ***todays_comics*** there, and they will be automaticaly replaced with the correct links and images in your index.html, that way you don't need to worry about it.

Okay do this:
- copy the stuff from your index.html to indextemplate.html
- replace the pasted advertisement code with ***advertisement*** on both indextemplate and links pages
- upload indextemplate to /workspace/
-login to siteadmin2.keenspace.com/cgi-bin/members/login.cgi
- click "manual update dashbjkadh comics"->"full update"->submit.
- click log out
- wait 5-10 minutes, and check your site. Hit refresh in your browser.

Executor_Arthas · Post by **Executor_Arthas** » Thu Jan 15, 2004 5:20 pm

I tried that damn advertisement tag, and it didn't work. Because of that, no adverisement banner popped-up, so I had to put something up, for fear of being banned by keenspace. Oh, and I already know about that indextemplate thing NOW. I updated it after I got Kata over at Altar Girl to help me out a bit, but now the index was rewritten, so I'm going to go fix that now. Thanks for all the help by the way.

CodeGuy · Post by **CodeGuy** » Thu Jan 15, 2004 5:48 pm

I just took a peek at your indextemplate.html. It looks like you saved it in wordpad or something. There are a bunch of garbage characters in it. You need to save it in a plain text editor, like notepad. Otherwise it's going to have a lot of problems.

Executor_Arthas · Post by **Executor_Arthas** » Thu Jan 15, 2004 7:42 pm

It WAS done in notepad. Don't ask me how the hell they got there, cuz I sure as hell don't. (They don't seem to be affecting me right now, so they can stay)