new page won't overwrite old one...what am I doing wrong?

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usarmycwo

It started with my old ISP going belly up, stranding my personal website. I
then signed up with 1&1, which got me my own domain name, like
www.johndoe.net.

I went back to my sites, fixed all the links so they’d not refer to the old
address, and began publishing them.

But somewhere I made a careless mistake: one of my minor pages ended up at
www.johndoe.net. That, of course, is where I want viewers (friends and
family) to see a list of all the pages, not one of them.

No problem, I thought. I’ll just create a simple one-page web, have it say
something like “Sorry, I screwed up, this isn’t where you want to be, instead
go to www.johndoe.net/myrealhomepage,†and then publish this page over the
wrong one.

Didn’t work. The process did seem to work. I got the “Website published
successfully†message, just as I did for all my other web pages. And because
all the other pages are on the internet, it tells me my FrontPage install is
good and that my publishing process is correct.

It's just not correct when I try to replace the contents of what’s at
www.johndoe.net. I’ve tried publishing “changed pages only†and “all pages,
overwriting...†but neither works. (Yes, also tried using Ctrl-F5 to refresh
my browser.)

This wouldn’t be too bad, except that the page at www.johndoe.net has a
serious fault: it has a link back to “my real home page†that links to the
old ISP that no longer exists. So this page really needs to be replaced.

I’m probably overlooking something obvious (as usual), but have now given up
finding it myself.

Hope you can help.

Thanks,

-- Steve
 
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usarmycwo

Well, I didn't really want to muddy the waters by using the actual website,
but here goes: www.stevenkohn.net.

Again, what you'll see is NOT the website I want to appear. But I can't
figure out what I'm doing wrong. By the way, I've tried "recalculate links"
(saw that at another post).

Let me make something clearer I might not have in my first post: The web I
want to publish is only one page, and is contained within index.htm. It's
what I see when I'm in Page view. It's what I want published when I go to
File > Publish.

-- Steve
 
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Chris Leeds, MVP - FrontPage

does this help:
http://www.stevenkohn.net/index.htm
is a different page than what shows up here: http://www.stevenkohn.net/

sometimes this happens when your default document is something other than
what you're publishing, i.e.. if you're default is index.html, or
default.htm and you're publishing an other named default doc. the one that
gets served first is dependant on the server settings.

--
Chris Leeds
Contact: http://chrisleeds.com/contact
Have you seen ContentSeed (www.contentseed.com)?
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Sorry for any inconvenience.
 
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usarmycwo

Chris, no, doesn't help. That .../index.htm is one of my attempts to get the
www.stevenkohn.net web overwritten.

What you're seeing at the .../index address is, I expect you understand,
what I want to appear at the dot net address.

Please bear with me; I'm a FrontPage novice.

-- Steve
 
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David Berry

What he's saying is that index.htm is NOT the name of the default "home"
page set by your server (what you would expect to see when you go to
www.stevenkohn.net If you want index.htm to be the default home page then
you need to figure out the name of the page that comes up when you go to
www.stevenkohn.net (ex: Default.htm, Default.html, Index.html etc) and you
need to rename Index.htm to be that name. Then the correct page will come
up when you browse to www.stevenkohn.net

Look for the little "home" icon in your web to see what the home page name
is set to.
 
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Steve Easton

You have two index pages on the server.
One is index.html the other is index.htm

index.html is the correct home or "default" page for your server.

In your local web, rename index.htm to index.html and let FrontPage update any hyperlinks
if / when prompted.
Then publish index.html
Then open the live site and delete index.htm from the server.

The reason this happens is that when you publish, FrontPage checks the server to determine
which is the proper default file and renames it when publishing. If your local copy is
index.htm and the server needs index.html, it is automatically renamed.
Then if you later change and publish your local index.htm to the server, FrontPage adds it
instead of overwriting index.html because it sees it as a separate page.


--

Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
FP Cleaner
http://www.95isalive.com/fixes/fpclean.htm
Hit Me FP
http://www.95isalive.com/fixes/HitMeFP.htm
 
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usarmycwo

Steve (and David Berry) -- Many thanks. Adding that "L" to htm did the trick.
I do appreciate all the time you took breaking it down so I could understand
it. -- Steve
 

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