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Hypervexed, yet again

Submitted by Oz on 7 December 2006 - 7:26pm. |

Hi, all. I hope everyone else's work for this class and all the others is going well. I'm still struggling to figure out how to get my site live...I'm pretty sure I've entered all the FTP info correctly, and all my local files seems to have loaded to the "remote server" (or at least there was a little box that told me they were in the process of uploading that stayed open for an awfully long time for nothing to have happened), but when I enter the address it should be under, I get a "Page not found" message every time.

If any of you who have succeeded in making this work are going to be in ITS at any point tonight or tomorrow, I'd hugely appreciate a little technological help. Really. Anytime. I should be here.

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the sledgehammer solution

Submitted by marmalade on 7 December 2006 - 11:04pm.

Hey--not sure if I'll be by ITS while you're there, but I know that I had similar problems. The only solution that I found was repeating the upload a couple of times . (I used "smart ftp client", and I could look and see what the contents of the folders were after I had uploaded them. Sometimes certain files wouldn't get copied, and then I would transfer those files over one by one or just re-upload the specific folders that had "gone missing"...)

I have no idea why it works better at sometimes vs. others. Maybe traffic is higher? Really, I'm not sure.

Anyway, I hope that works--it's obviously not a terribly "tech-y" answer, but hopefully it does some good!

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Final Project Help

Submitted by magoo on 8 December 2006 - 7:51pm.

What's the exact filename of the file you're trying to link to in your project? If you're a letter off, it won't work. For example, If you look for filename.htm and you want filename.html, it'll act like nothing's there.

There's another tricky thing. If you're running windows, everything works at home when you test it even if you make a capitalization error. So for instance, filename.htm or filename.HTM with work. To make things worse (or maybe there's some other motive, but I never figured it out) windows also hides the extensions from people. In other words, you're told it's filename, when it's really filename.htm, filename.HTM, filename.HTML, or filename.html. Any of these distinctions will get you a 404 FILE NOT FOUND even if it works at home on Windows.

I tried loading your site with /index.html, the usual default, but nothing came up. On the other hand, probably that's not what you named the file anyway.

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ftp clients

Submitted by magoo on 8 December 2006 - 7:56pm.

I should add that I downloaded a freeware client that I couldn't get to work, too. But it did tell me it hadn't uploaded, of course. I went back to winftp, which I had used before (shareware, $30, but has a 30-day trial period.) Everything went up smoothly. I can only imagine there was some out of the box configuration issue.

Or it failed for some stupid thing I did, but I never figured out what that was.

Good luck.

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