Re: What should I do now to get my site live?

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From: Steve Easton (admin_at_95isalive.com)
Date: 05/31/04 

Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 20:53:50 -0400

Well then, how about posting a link to one of your masterpieces!! 

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Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
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"Go away" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:616F3F6B-5D62-40CB-86F3-0006A5D1FFF2@microsoft.com...
> My gosh, you must be a blond.  Who cares about your personal trials and tribulations and your yard
work.
>
> You don't belong in front of frontpage, let alone a computer.
>
>      ----- Gail wrote: -----
>
>      Crash,
>      Thanks, how very kind of you.  I actually had a fun day even though it was doing grueling
yard work.
>
>      As soon as I hear from Thomas on what he did to resolve my problem, I will be happy to share
it with the rest of you fine folks.
>
>      Have a great evening!  I'm not staying on long otherwise I'll be tempted to make some more
changes  :-(
>
>
>
>           ----- Crash Gordon® wrote: -----
>
>           Have fun today.
>
>           I'm sure we'd all like to know; "the rest of the story" of what went wrong in
publishing! Keep us posted :-)
>
>
>           "Gail" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:46F71E50-1FAE-4C5F-AA98-32B10F34F58E@microsoft.com...
>           | Good Morning Everyone!
>           | Wow, what a day I had yesterday.  It was in the wee hours of the morning that I
(actually Thomas Rowe) finally got the site working.  I am so grateful for the help from Thomas.  I
have no idea what he did (and at some point I would like to know) but it worked!  As promised, I am
not going to do a thing to my site today.  It is a beautiful day so I am going to be outside
enjoying it.
>           |
>           | I reckon I should fill in my host that things are working now.  I will wait until I
know how it was fixed so I can tell them so that they too will then be more knowledgeable.
>           |
>           | Again, and I can't stress this enough, THANK YOU EVER SO MUCH!  This could lead a girl
to drink  :-^
>           |
>           |      ----- Stefan B Rusynko wrote: -----
>           |
>           |      Looks like you got it published or fixed for now
>           |
>           |      --
>           |
>           |      _____________________________________________
>           |      SBR @ ENJOY (-:              [ Microsoft MVP - FrontPage ]
>           |      "Warning - Using the F1 Key will not break anything!"  (-;
>           |      To find the best Newsgroup for FrontPage support see:
>           |        http://www.net-sites.com/sitebuilder/newsgroups.asp
>           |      _____________________________________________
>           |
>           |
>           |      "Gail" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:FEAC9962-3F32-4E59-A09C-AE7AE497E8DF@microsoft.com...
>           |      | Thomas,
>           |      |
>           |      | Here is the latest from my host:
>           |      |
>           |      | "What folder are you telling your files to publish to? Are you telling it to
publish directly to http://www.bikerburials.com? You
>           |      cant have it in an additional folder or anything. You just need to take your
index.htm file from the root directory of your site and
>           |      publish it directly up to the server. If you put your files into an additional
folder, they wont show up."
>           |      |
>           |      | I know for a fact that I am publishing directly to http://www.bikerburials.com.
I am so uneducated in this whole thing that I am
>           |      not exactly sure anymore what I am doing.  I definitely have additional folders
set up for images and buttons, but why would that be
>           |      a problem?  I thought it was okay to have additional folders in my website.
>           |      |
>           |      | Does this make sense to you?
>           |      |
>           |      | Thanks.
>           |      |
>           |      |
>           |      | Thanks.
>           |      |
>           |      |
>           |      |
>           |      |
>           |      |      ----- Thomas A. Rowe wrote: -----
>           |      |
>           |      |      Gail,
>           |      |
>           |      |      Drop me an email and I will see what we can do to get your site back up.
>           |      |
>           |      |      --
>           |      |      ==============================================
>           |      |      Thomas A. Rowe (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
>           |      |      WEBMASTER Resources(tm)
>           |      |      http://www.ycoln-resources.com
>           |      |      FrontPage Resources, WebCircle, MS KB Quick Links, etc.
>           |      |      ==============================================
>           |      |      To assist you in getting the best answers for FrontPage support see:
>           |      |      http://www.net-sites.com/sitebuilder/newsgroups.asp
>           |      |
>           |      |      "Gail" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>           |      |      news:A007F29A-CB0C-442A-9437-2A3B330CAFA3@microsoft.com...
>           |      |      > Well, my friends, I have done everything that my host suggested and now
I have nothing.  I just
>           |      |      don't know what to do anymore.  I am including their remarks to see if
they were even close to
>           |      |      having a clue.  Of course, if they didn't, I guess it doesn't matter at
this point because I don't
>           |      |      have a site.  Talk about a total breakdown.  What do I do from here?
>           |      |      >>> Following are the suggestions from my host:
>           |      |      >> "Yes, that is what I am suggesting you do. You have changed names on
things so many times that I
>           |      |      think you are going to need to go through the process of readding the
interactive button again. To
>           |      |      delete the current pages off the server, you can go into your file manager
and delete the pages that
>           |      |      are there. Then once you have them ready to publish again you can just
republish with FP and it
>           |      |      should be fixed.
>           |      |      >> Please let us know if we can help further."
>           |      |      >>> "OK, I am not sure how you are publishing but your files dont seem to
be making it to the server.
>           |      |      Here is an article that we have on how to publish your files.
>           |      |      >> If you have a Front Page web site on your hard drive and you are
needing to publish it to the
>           |      |      server, you would go to file, publish web and type in http://YourIpAddress
and Front Page will
>           |      |      publish your site to the server. Prior to doing this, you must first
install front page extensions
>           |      |      and wait 10 minutes for them to install.
>           |      |      >> To prevent your Front Page extensions from corupting, here are a few
things to keep in mind:
>           |      |      > 1. If you are publishing from your hard drive to the server, only go
through the Front Page
>           |      |      publishing feature to move your files from your hard drive to the server.
Don't use FTP.
>           |      |      > 2. Be sure not to let your package run out of space. If you see that you
are getting close to
>           |      |      running out of space, please let us know at the helpdesk at
christianwebhost.com/helpdesk and ask
>           |      |      for your package to be increased to the next package. You can also delete
any mail that you may have
>           |      |      stored on the server or delete files to prevent from running out of space.
>           |      |      > 3. Don't create custom error pages
>           |      |      > 4. Don't use .htaccess files
>           |      |      > 5. Don't stop the publishing process once you have started to publish.
>           |      |      > 6. Be sure to name all files, folder and subwebs - all lower case, no
spaces. This will help with
>           |      |      links and search engines but also, if we ever need to manually uninstall
and reinstall front page
>           |      |      extensions, spaces can prevent the extensions from uninstalling and
reinstalling correctly.
>           |      |      >> ftping files to the server while front page extensions are installed
will corrupt the extensions.
>           |      |      You can probably ftp audio and .cgi or .pl files to the server without any
problem. When you ftp
>           |      |      anything like cgi scripts to the server, be sure to NOT open those files
within your Front Page
>           |      |      program as that would definitely cause the extensions to corrupt. You
would want to download the
>           |      |      scripts to your hard drive and make any changes to the script using
notepad and then ftp it back to
>           |      |      the server.
>           |      |      >> If you have previous files on the server that were ftp'd and you will
now be using Front Page,
>           |      |      please back up all files that have been uploaded to the server, and post
at the helpdesk and ask the
>           |      |      techs to delete all files from the server. This will delete any possible
.htaccess files that may be
>           |      |      out there from previous ftp publishing that will prevent Front Page
extensions from installing
>           |      |      correctly.
>           |      |      > ==================
>           |      |      >> As your Front Page site grows be sure to use subwebs. A Front Page site
that grows to over 50 MB
>           |      |      will start having publishing problems if you aren't using subwebs. To turn
some of your folders into
>           |      |      subwebs, open your site in front page and right click on the folders that
you have created and click
>           |      |      'convert to web'.
>           |      |      >> Please let us know if we can help further."
>           |      |      >> I am now getting a message "You are not authorized to view this page
HTTP 403. (Forbidden).  What
>           |      |      the heck is this all about?  I am now at my wits end.  Can you help?
>           |      |      >> Thanks!
>           |      |      >>
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