Publishing Problems

[Jennnnn]

I’m having trouble publishing my html site. I’ve been using the same settings/host for about 15 years and now I’m encountering a 200 ready to proceed error. I’m using the FTP client within Expressions Web 4 in passive mode to publish.

After trying different settings including unticking passive mode (worked for many people with this problem but gives me 425 error) I’ve separately managed to publish three pages BUT, I still receive the 200 error twice and can only publish one page at a time. After publishing, all my pages in the right pane (remote pages) disappear and I have to close down publishing and wait a few minutes before returning to publish so I can publish another page. If I don’t wait, I get repeated 200 errors and I can’t see any of my pages in either the local or remote panes.

I think the problem may be caused by my Windows firewall settings (Windows 10 Parallels) because new firewall rules were created when I was initially trying to publish. I now have four rules for EW4 with the first rule having only “Public” ticked (first block/unblock column isn’t ticked). Could this be the problem? Any ideas? I don’t understand how the firewall rules work but I believe the rule thats listed first is the last one to be created and is possibly controlling things. I guess I could temporarily disarm the firewall to see if this helps. Thanks for your help.

[explorador]

Hi there. I'm not familiar with Microsoft Expression web, just looked up what it is on the wikipedia and says it's a WYSIWYG editor, and I read that you are also using it's own FTP client.

IF you can connect to your server using FTP, I suggest you use a client like let's say FileZilla, and transfer your files that way as I understand you actually have html files.

I experienced similar issues in the past on different places, turns out the respective server admins placed rules to protect the server from too many connections at once or sequential over X period of time, meaning you could only upload like 5, 10 files every 10/20 seconds.

Do you have access to any sort of admin panel on your server? is there any file manager available? if so you could upload your files using a web based interface, most web servers have this unless your admin blocked it for you. If you experience the same issues using a web interface, you could zip all your files and then upload, this way instead of 500 files you will just upload one, then expand the file on your server. You can do this via command line if you can connect to your server, or you could also do this via web panel interface.

Just keep in mind, when uploading files via web admin interface, sometimes the file permissions are set wrong, and you have to change them manually to avoid errors like "forbidden", most web file interfaces let you do this easily.

Good luck.

[Jennnnn]

Thanks for your reply. I can try FileZilla. Yes, when everything was working I could only upload two files at a time so publishing was a slow process.

I do have a Cpanel where I can access my html so I can make changes. Next I'll explore my Windows Firewall advanced settings. For some reason unwanted additional basic firewall rules are being created and that may be preventing me from publishing. Thanks for your help!

[tangor]

Use an external ftp program ... your Expressions Web is likely not secured ftp ... happened to me a few years back. Using Core solved the problem.

[explorador]

I do have a Cpanel where

Nice. In the meantime as you try solving or testing what others have suggested, you can explore using the Cpanel file manager if available on your account. You could easily upload individual or compressed files (groups) and expand with one click, just as mentioned before keep in mind the file permissions. And yes seems to me you are facing some configuration issues.

On a related note, it's rarely discussed but still worth mentioning: when uploading let's say 500 files, the process will involve way more than 500 server requests as there is some checking of connection, sent, wait, confirm, etc for each file. Sending one zip file with the 500 files inside will generate still more than just 1 request/hit etc, but will save you lots of time.

This also relates to keeping elements on a webpage to a minimum because this way you generate less requests for any visitor reading the file and it's elements.

[Jennnnn]

Thanks for your insight!