Re: setup download

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From: Richard (ricindonny_at_copperstream.co.uk)
Date: 08/22/04 

Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 23:07:18 +0100

ok I've sorted the page name problem - just wasn't looking hard enough -
thanks

I still got
http://www.andrewscomputersystems.co.uk/index_files/contactus.htm

so I put all files in the root of wwwroot and edited the index.html to look
for all files correctly instead of the index_files folder that pub created.
I also changed the file list too. This was my first bit of html coding I
have ever done but it seemed the logical way of doing things.

Surely there is a function in publisher to either stop creating a
index_files or to hide tha when its looking for a page?
"Richard" <ricindonny@copperstream.co.uk> wrote in message
news:uK53GuIiEHA.1344@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> Thanks for all of your advice.
>
> I've sorted the download into a structured folder ok.
>
> I can't seem to find the option that changes the
> http://www.andrewscomputersystems.co.uk/index_files/Page1276.htm
>
> to a
> http://www.andrewscomputersystems.co.uk/contact.htm
>
> for the url when the contact (or any other button is used).
>
> The only other things that worrying me is that the following link can be
> entered
> http://www.andrewscomputersystems.co.uk/index_files/
> and this takes me to all of the files\pages in that folder.
> How would I stop this being accessed but still allow the browse
> function of the pages that are stored within it?
>
>
>
> "David Bartosik - MS MVP" <forums@davidbartosik.com> wrote in message
> news:OZPgLKIiEHA.596@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
>>> ok I think I have figured it out.........I set the hyper link the
>>> http://www.andrewscomputersystems.co.uk/index_files/pricelist.xls
>>> instead of the local path and it works now, is this correct way of doing
>> it?
>>
>>
>> If in the Publisher page you create a hyperlink and then browse to a file
>> locally then the hyperlink will point to your local file. That would be
>> incorrect for online use, you need to manually upload such "external"
>> files
>> and then hyperlink to the URL of the file on your server. Since each time
>> you publish Publisher will maintain the site folder and site pages, I
>> recommend you NOT place external files in the Publisher folder as your
>> example shows. Instead keep them outside the Publisher web, hence the
>> term
>> "external file". Either at the domain root or organized in manually
>> created
>> folders, ie:
>>
>> http://www.andrewscomputersystems.co.uk/myfile.zip
>>
>> or
>>
>> http://www.andrewscomputersystems.co.uk/mydownloads/myfile.zip
>>
>> And do not use embedded spaces in folder names or in file names, instead
>> use
>> under-scores (like Publisher does), and do not mix case when naming, use
>> all
>> lowercase ( http://www.publishermvps.com/Default.aspx?tabid=30 ).
>>
>>
>>> While I was playing with this I noticed the url wasn't very user
>> friendly -
>>> e.g when I click on the contact button the url is
>>> http://www.andrewscomputersystems.co.uk/index_files/Page1276.htm
>>>
>>> is there any way of changing the website so it points to something like
>>> http://www.andrewscomputersystems.co.uk/contact.htm
>>>
>>> is this a publisher 2003 setting?
>>>
>>
>> Yes, look in options under Tools.
>>
>>
>> --
>> David Bartosik - MS MVP
>> for Publisher help:
>> www.davidbartosik.com
>> enter to win Pub 2003:
>> www.davidbartosik.com/giveaway.aspx
>>
>>
>>
>
>

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