Web Hyperlinks point to my "C" drive!

My site works fine in FP2000, but links don't work on the web!

[glenf]

I recently updated my web site in FP 2000 and republished it using FTP to Earthlink where it resides. In the preview before publishing all of the hyperlinks work fine, but once I publish the only ones that work are the four that go to external web sites and my email address. If you hover over the link, it shows an address on my "C" drive at the bottom of the screen. How do I get these addresses changed to refer to the web location? All of the pages seem to load when I do the FTP publish bit.

[isitreal]

You have to change some setting in frontpage to treat the site folder as the root for links, not your c: drive. Maybe someone can tell you how to do that, but I haven't used FrontPage for years, it's not one of the better WYSIWYG editors out there, it might be the worst.

All paths have to be relative to the site root folder, not your C: drive, then they will run fine both on your home machine an on your server. If you use relative paths, like src="../mystyles.css" it will always work whereever it is.

[glenf]

To the best of my knowledge, all of the files are in the "Front Page Web" which is called TNILLC on my hard drive. It contains the attached files which, I believe, are all of the files in the web. The .gif and .jpg files and the contact Email address work. The pages do not. The web has been active on Earthlink since last April. I made changes to one page and first tried to update just that page on the internet using FTP and got an error message regarding 'file names with spaces in them'. There were no names with spaces in them that didn't have an underscore in place of the space, but I removed the underscores leaving the file_names as filenames instead. It still wouldn't accept my changed page so I tried uploading the entire web. The upload window showed that all of the pages were uploading and, indeed if I enter a URL on the internet such as [home.jps.net...] as an example, it will reach the 'biography' page of my web. The www.triplenetinvestments.com URL is hosted by GoDaddy and re-directed to [home.jps.net...] while hiding the fact that it is re-directed. Earthlink purchased Onemain a couple of years ago who had previously purchased JPS. If I hover over the page links on the web online that says www.triplenetinvestments.com the bottom of the screen will show the page locations to be on my "C" drive. If I do it on [home.jps.net...] it will show the correct location as biography.htm as it does on my web on my computer.

I had my computer guru over here on another matter shortly after I set up the site last April (it did the same thing then) and he spent less than 5 minutes fixing it so that it worked right. I was so happy that it was fixed that I neglected to write down what he did! DUMB! I have spent over two days researching what might be wrong and finally sent him an Email this morning saying that I had given up. I have not, as yet, heard from him.

[ergophobe]

Ask this in the WYSIWYG editor forum. There is probably a setting on FP to switch between relative and absolute URIs. You are almost certainly using absolute URIs.

Someone over there could probably answer this in 15 seconds.

Cheers,

Tom

[eWhisper]

This if for FP 2002 and earlier - not sure if any more recent versions still have this bug.

If it's a front page created and maintained web, don't use FTP for any forms, webcomponents, and the initial FTP, as sometimes FP gets confused as it didn't actually UL the web - use FTP for pages you don't want FP to realize are in your web.

When adding a link, highlight the text, right click, select hyperlink. This opens a box to somewhere in your web. If your web is c:/my webs/myhomepage/page.html, NEVER browser up past myhomepage to the my webs folder. If you get to the 'my webs' folder, as soon as you do, FP always thinks your out of your webpage and will create a c: link even if you drill back down into your actual webpage.

To fix links, goto reports, and do a validate links report. Sort by link, and then if there is still a c: link, right click it, select the actual link in your web (or add an external link).

Once you have fixed all the links. Recalculate all hyperlinks and double check the report.

If FP links to a c: page, and not a relative or absolute page, when you put your cursor over the link, you will see, c://etc... if it's a relative, you will see the file name or ../myfile, etcc, and if its absolute you will see, ht*p://pagelocation.

If you right click inside most dialogue boxes of FP, you will not see the paste/cut options - you can still use them, but you have to use cntl c, cntl v, etc.

When publishing the web, use FP's FTP the first time, useing FTP later on can be ok. When you goto publish, make sure the published location starts with ht*p://myweb.com and not myweb.com.

[glenf]

eWhisper says to do a 'validate links' report. There is no such report option in FP2000 - must be in a newer version.

Now what?

[eWhisper]

Do a recalculate hyperlinks (in the tools drop down menu). Then goto reports and click on hyperlinks. It should prompt you if you want to verify hyperlinks. If all of them are verified already it might not prompt you. Sort by hyperlink and see if any are still listed as c://