Scattered Pages

[John Ahern]

I have spent weeks trying to upload my pages with Pub2003 - works fine in
'web page preview' but when located thru the net the pages all come up in a
list. I have tried to rename the first page to Index but still the links do
not work. I have tried 'save as web page' and 'publish to the web'. I used
do it with Publisher 2000 (this is no longer an option) and I used to
re-load the home page after I had renamed it 'index'. None of this works
with pub2003. Also, it now takes HOURS instead of minutes to upload. Please
HELP!!
John www.johnahern.net

 

[David Bartosik]

The "list" as you call it, would be the directory folder that displays on an
Apache server when no default (index.htm) page is present.
Naming the home page file as index.htm will resolve that.
Publisher 2003 defaults the first page of the web publication to "index.htm"
when using File, Publish to web.
There should have been no difficulties present.
Publishing instructions are available at http://www.davidbartosik.com
Besides reading that information, additional things I recommend to you at
this point are:
- delete all the files you've uploaded to the server.
- in the web publication going thru each page of the pub file, hover the
mouse over each page link and verify it is pointed to the correct page as
intended.
- if you set a custom file name to any page verify that the name you used is
ALL lower-case. never use upper and lower case naming, nor spaces or special
characters.
- publish using the File, Publish... and verify that the dialog defaults to
index.htm - do not modify that. (note index.htm should be all lower case)
- in your browser clear the cache (delete internet files), before you test
each new upload.

 

[John Ahern]

Thanks for the advice David - trouble is ALL pages are uploading EXCEPT the
first page and that would normally default to 'index'. I even tried renaming
the page and still no success even though it works fine in 'preview'. Would
you PLEASE be so kind as to take a look at the site: www.johnahern.net ?
Apologies for sending this to the entire group and not you particularly - my
Outlook doesn't allow it.
Thanks again for your help. John

 

[David Bartosik [MSFT MVP]]

the directory listing shows that all your site files - images, html files -
are sitting on the root level. sans the index.htm file.

by default Publisher 2003 saves all files (minus index.htm) in a sub-folder
of the root, that Publisher creates and names index_files, and only the
index.htm file sits at the root.

if that sub-folder option is left on, and you implement custom file naming
then the html files (all pages except page 1-which will reside at root
level) will all reside in that sub-folder and will explicitly use the custom
name you put in - i.e. /index_files/aboutus.htm

if you turn off the sub-folder option, then Pub 2003 does not create the
index_files sub-folder, and all files are published to the root.

so it would appear that you turned off the sub-folder option.

if the sub-folder option is turned off, and you implement custom file naming
then the html files will reside at the root level along with the index.htm
file. BUT - the html files (all pages except page 1) WILL NOT explicitly use
the custom name - rather the custom name will be prefixed with "index" -
i.e. index_aboutus.htm

your site files would appear to indicate that you are using custom file
naming.

HOWEVER - they do not have the "index" prefix.

since they lack the prefix, it would seem you are using the sub-folder
option, but it's already been concluded that you are not, so the only thing
that is clear is that you've mucked everything up somewhere along the line.
or perhaps you are going in after the publish and modifying things.

if you know what you did to muck things up, then simply stop it and try
again. if you don't then check that sub-folder option in the website options
and make sure it is checked ON. then delete all files currently on the site
and then re-save and re-publish.

 

[John Ahern]

Thanks David - can't say I understand the full extent of what you wrote but
the little bit I gleaned WORKED! I noticed that when I was 'publishing to
web' the pages were all in a folder except the first page which appeared
separately under a browser icon - I had tried dragging it into the folder
but it still did not connect to the other pages but after reading your
advice I put it NEXT to the folder in my ftp explorer and it works!! I would
love to have my OLD version of publisher again as now my files take ages to
load - probably due to some graphics being changed to 'png' without any help
from me.
Thanks again David, John

the directory listing shows that all your site files - images, html
files - are sitting on the root level. sans the index.htm file.

by default Publisher 2003 saves all files (minus index.htm) in a
sub-folder of the root, that Publisher creates and names index_files, and
only the index.htm file sits at the root.

if that sub-folder option is left on, and you implement custom file naming
then the html files (all pages except page 1-which will reside at root
level) will all reside in that sub-folder and will explicitly use the
custom name you put in - i.e. /index_files/aboutus.htm

if you turn off the sub-folder option, then Pub 2003 does not create the
index_files sub-folder, and all files are published to the root.

so it would appear that you turned off the sub-folder option.

if the sub-folder option is turned off, and you implement custom file
naming then the html files will reside at the root level along with the
index.htm file. BUT - the html files (all pages except page 1) WILL NOT
explicitly use the custom name - rather the custom name will be prefixed
with "index" - i.e. index_aboutus.htm

your site files would appear to indicate that you are using custom file
naming.

HOWEVER - they do not have the "index" prefix.

since they lack the prefix, it would seem you are using the sub-folder
option, but it's already been concluded that you are not, so the only
thing that is clear is that you've mucked everything up somewhere along
the line. or perhaps you are going in after the publish and modifying
things.

if you know what you did to muck things up, then simply stop it and try
again. if you don't then check that sub-folder option in the website
options and make sure it is checked ON. then delete all files currently on
the site and then re-save and re-publish.

--
David Bartosik - [MSFT MVP]
http://www.publishermvps.com

Thanks for the advice David - trouble is ALL pages are uploading EXCEPT
the first page and that would normally default to 'index'. I even tried
renaming the page and still no success even though it works fine in
'preview'. Would you PLEASE be so kind as to take a look at the site:
www.johnahern.net ? Apologies for sending this to the entire group and
not you particularly - my Outlook doesn't allow it.
Thanks again for your help. John