Thread: Trying to Publish 2nd website... not much luck!

Hello,

I am trying to publish a second web site for my hydrocephalus pages. For some reason, it won't come up at all under the URL visitors would need to use... www.terrilynnspencer.com/hydrocpehalus. I will need step by step help in correcting what might be wrong. I'm dyslexic so I need to do things slowly. I knew I might have this problem in trying to publish a seond site.

I did create a folder in the SUBDOMAIN section of the control panel called "hydrocpehalus." I don't know what else to do or what I did wrong.

If I can't get this corrected within the next day or so, I'll just publish all the pages to my origional site even though that might look strange.

Terri

Hiya, Terri!
I need to get going soon, but let's see if we can accomplish something quick for you.

A. You have double-checked the spelling on your CP sub-domain setup and the actual FOLDER name, right?

B. AND, when you try to publish, where it says public_html/ in the BV Publish dialog box, you are adding the domain name to look like this: public_html/subdomainname right?

C. And, of course, using BV you have saved this page to the sub-domain BV folder as index I assume...

answer these, and we can move forward....

>>> Did you manually create a FOLDER in your Blue Voda Folder to "contain" your sub-domain yet? If not, then you now have 2 index files in your public_html/ root directory....

1. In Windows, use Explorer to open your main Blue Voda folder located in My Documents...or just double-click on the MY DOCUMENTS icon on your desktop (computer screen in Windows)

2. Once you have your BV folder open, use the menu to the left to CREATE NEW FOLDER, which you will name your new sub-domain name, spelled exactly...

3. Still in in Windows Explorer, with the BV folder still open, find the "index" page that belongs to your sub-domain and drag-and-drop it into your new sub-domain folder.....

4. Go back to BV web builder, click on OPEN, and you will now see your sub-domain folder you just created, open that to find your new sub index, open that, and republish....being careful to add at the bottom field of the Publisher dialog box the sub-domain name like this: public_html/subdomainname


Now, using IE, go to the URL, hit REFRESH, and tell me what you see....

Hi Terry,

you have created a subfolder. You should have created a subdomain instead, and the cp would have automatically created the subfolder for you. I can see your subfolder, it's in http://www.terrilynnspencer.com/hydrocephalus/

Please delete it through BlueFTP, then go in your CP, click on "Subdomains" and add a subdomain called "hydrocephalus". Then create a subfolder on your computer, called "hydrocephalus", inside your BlueVoda folder. Create your hydrocephalus pages, and save them in this new folder. Then publish them, typing in the Folder field of the publish popup "public_html/hydrocephalus" (without the quotes ") . Remember, the first page of your hydrocephalus subdomain, must also be saved as "index".

Thanks for the clarification, General G!

Hello,

Where is this FTP that you are talking about as to where I need to go to deleate a hydrocephalus folder? What steps do I need to follow to create a folder on my computer and where should it be put.... on my desktop or in my documents?

As far as publishing the hydrocephalus pages, it doesn't give me any options to put the hydrocephalus pages anywhere. It just says it is publishing before saying publishing successful so I don't know how when I'm publishing to type in this popup thing you are talking about.
Terri

In the BV web-bulider look on the top tool bar and click on "Tools" and then click on FTP Manager. Then click on connect on the left. This will open up two windows -one on the left and one on the right. The ones on the left are your computer files associated with BV and the one on the right is the files for your website on the server. On the right- locate the file hydrocpehalus and delete it.

Now close out of the FTP Manager. Click on the link below and watch the turotial on creating a subdomain.
http://www.vodahost.com/DemoDemo/cpa..._subdomain.htm

As to the publishing pages to subdomain or anyother specific folder. When you click on the publish icon it brings up a window that by default displays the path to the public_html folder. You can ammend this to place files in a seperate folder you created or a subdomain. For example;
public_html/hydrocpehalus is what you would put to place pages/files in the subdomain you are creating- hydrocpehalus

I suggest that you spend some time watching the video tutorials that BV has prepared. They are very useful. They can be accessed by clicking on the Video Tutorials button on the bottom of the BV web-bulider (lower left).

Cheers-

Andy

Please click the below to learn how to publish to a addon domain.

http://www.vodahost.com/DemoDemo/cpa...skin_addon.htm

As far as the FTP Manager goes, there are files on the left hand side but nothing on the right hand side at all. I tried to connect to the right hand side using my user name and password and it said the connection failed. There really is no "right hand side in FTP or at least if there is, I can't connect to it. Those on the left have all of the hydrocephalus pages I've already created. There is nothing on the right side of the FTP to deleate so I don't know where this hydrocephalus file is that needs deleating.

Should I just forget this and connect the hydrocpehalus pages to my other site?

This looks more complicated than I first thought.

Terri

Terri---

Too many instructions can be confusing...
You need to start over in CP to create your sub-domain properly. The reason you do not see "anything on the right" is because you do not have a folder there yet, or what was there has been deleted. ARGH!

Calmly, start from square one again....being dutiful to follow whichever version of simple instructions in this thread you desire.....

Trying not to step on anyone's toes.......

Hello,

Ok, I followed all of the directions that both Andy and VodaHost sent me including watching and reading everything I found on those pages. I followed everything to the best of my ability to understand them...yet I still can't see my pages! Now what do I do?

When you type in the URL that people would to see the web site: www.terrilynnspencer.com/hydrocephalus, it comes up something like "Index of hydrocephalus" I have no idea what that means. I even published everything using the public folder.html/hydrocephalus but nothing works. I'm about ready to give up on the whole thing. I promised people on an e-mail support group for hydrocpehalus that I would get a hydrocephalus site up and running. Now I wonder if I should tell them I can't do it. It seems so difficult! Is there anything I missed? I did do an add on domain too as well as the subdomain for hydrocephalus. I don't know what else to do or what could have gone wrong now..... HELP!!!!

Terri

Originally Posted by TLS

Hello,

Ok, I followed all of the directions that both Andy and VodaHost sent me including watching and reading everything I found on those pages. I followed everything to the best of my ability to understand them...yet I still can't see my pages! Now what do I do?

When you type in the URL that people would to see the web site: www.terrilynnspencer.com/hydrocephalus, it comes up something like "Index of hydrocephalus" I have no idea what that means. I even published everything using the public folder.html/hydrocephalus but nothing works. I'm about ready to give up on the whole thing. I promised people on an e-mail support group for hydrocpehalus that I would get a hydrocephalus site up and running. Now I wonder if I should tell them I can't do it. It seems so difficult! Is there anything I missed? I did do an add on domain too as well as the subdomain for hydrocephalus. I don't know what else to do or what could have gone wrong now..... HELP!!!!

Terri

Have you published your index page, Terri? If you have then you need to check that it is called simply index - no capital letters. If you haven't then that's what is missing.

Well as for the index page, when I try to save the hydrocephalus page by clicking on "file" and Save As.... and change it from hydrocephalus.index to just plain index, when saving it, it says an index page already exists and do I want to replace it. I don't because the origional index page goes with my origional inspirational site.... www.terrilynnspencer.com

As far as the hydrocephalus index page..... how should it be saved and published?

Originally Posted by TLS

Well as for the index page, when I try to save the hydrocephalus page by clicking on "file" and Save As.... and change it from hydrocephalus.index to just plain index, when saving it, it says an index page already exists and do I want to replace it. I don't because the origional index page goes with my origional inspirational site.... www.terrilynnspencer.com

As far as the hydrocephalus index page..... how should it be saved and published?

Save it as index and publish to public.html/hydrocephalus (this is at the bottom of the pop-up publishing box - just add /hydrocephalus to the end pf public.html) and you should be good to go.

I tried to save the index page for my hydrocephalus site as just plain index, it wouldn't let me unless I override the origional index.... but wouldn't that mess up my origional site completely?

Of course it won't. Please understand that you need to have, BOTH on your computer AND on your site, separate areas for the two sites. That's why i had suggested that you create a folder IN YOUR COMPUTER, inside the BlueVoda Folder. It will then allow you to save this new "index" page there. After saving it on your computer, publish it as you already did with the "hydrocephalus index" page

I just noticed something. When I typed http://hydrocephalus/terrilynnspencer.com it says "index of hydrocephalus." When I click on the actual pages, they do come up. I know it looks strange that when the URL is typed that the "index of hydrocephalus" comes up; however, the fact that you can at least click onto the actual pages and still see them is something.

Should I just leave this as it is? I don't know how to correct the problem unless anyone wants to come to Duluth, Minnesota and fix this situation.
I'm thinking I should just let the hydrocephalus support e-mail group I'm on that it doesn't work the "normal way" but one can still see the individual pages by clicking on them separately anyway.

Terri

I don't know how to create a folder inside of the BlueVoda folder. I din't even know where the BlueVoda folder is or how to get to it.

Ok I did just deleate the name of one of the folders I had origionally in my BlueVoda folder and renamed it "hydrocephalus." However, I have no idea how to save my hydrocephalus pages in that folder unless I just erase all of the pages I've already published for the hydrocephalus site and start all over. Should I do that?

Go in BV. Copen the new index page. Go to File, "Save as". When the popup with the content of the BV folder appears, just right click on a BLANK space of the popup. From the menu that appears, select "New" then "Folder". Just provide the new folder name, which, in order to remember things, should be called " hydrocephalus", as it will contain the hydrocephalus pages. After you have created the folder, select it and save the page there as "index"

No, no need to delete your pages. First copy them in the new folder, then delete them.

Ok I copied all my hydrocephalus pages in the "hydrocephalus folder" in my BlueVoda folder. However, I can't change the index page from hydrocephalus.index to just index in this folder. How do I do this? I guess a severe dyslexic should forget about trying to create web sites. I didn't know it could be so hard.

Terri

Originally Posted by TLS

Ok I copied all my hydrocephalus pages in the "hydrocephalus folder" in my BlueVoda folder. However, I can't change the index page from hydrocephalus.index to just index in this folder. How do I do this? I guess a severe dyslexic should forget about trying to create web sites. I didn't know it could be so hard.

Terri

Open your Blue Voda, as if to edit an existing page.

Double-click on the hydrocephalus folder.

Right-click on the hydrocephalus.index page (file).

Click on rename.

Rename the page (file) as index then hit enter.

Your page should now be called index


Don't feel down. It's a big learning curve. If you need any more help just come back. :o)

Ok, I got the home page for the hydrocephalus site working. Now my menu won't work. I used the "Go" menu format; however, there is no "Go" button to click on to. Now what do I do? Is it normal for the "Go" button to disappear like that? The photo gallery page that comes up is strange. That isn't the page I created in that the photo gallery page I created isn't supposed to look like the one that comes up. As for the page I did called "Kathy's page" that page will not come up at all.

Terri

By the way, I did hyperlink all of my pages together and published all of the hydrocephalus pages in public_html/hydrocephalus so I don't know what went wrong.

One thing at a time. The Go button doesn't appear because you have ticked the "Do not use button" box in the Go menu properties. By clicking on the link, it will directly work. If you do want the Go button, untick the box in the Go menu properties.

Then your links are wrong: your Gallery link is http://www.photogallery.com/ and that's excactly where the Go menu sends the visitor. The same goes for the "Home" link: it is www.home.com and tht's where the go menu sends the visitor. If that's not what you want, correct the links.

About the "Kathy's story", i can only guess that you have saved the page somwhere else, or you have a spelling mistake.

I republished the photo gallery page just as plain photos by going to the properties of the page and when it came up, hit the link area and typed in "http://www.terrilynnspencer.com/hydrocephalus/photos.html. I then saved it that way and published the page like that. Then I went back to see if that link would work and it would not.

As far as Kathy's page, I did that one the same way by going to properties and clicking on the link and typed: "http://www.terrilynnspencer.com/hydrocpehalus/kathyspage.html. I saved it and published it that way and it didn't come up either.

I wonder if I should just give up on the whole thing. Even watching the tuitorials over and over again doesn't help me because I'm more of an auditory learner as well as hands on. Everyone says this is easy.... but not for dyslexics or anyone who has any type of a learning disability in my opinion.

When I type up the URL for visitors, I type it as "www.terrilynnspencer/hydrocephalus.com and the index page comes up fine. The other pages do not work though.

****Very frustrated, discouraged, and feel like the worst dumb dumb in the world******

Terri

I wonder if I should just e-mail my hydrocephalus support e-mail group and say that I've been working on the hydrocephalus site and other than the index/home page, I can't get the other pages published to the Internet at all and am thinking of just giving up on the whole thing. What do you all think? Is it impossible for dyslexics to learn this stuff? Does anyone else with learning disabilities ever try this program and succeed at it?

Terri

Please use myform to send me your IP, username and password. I'll have an inside look for you if you wish so

Hello navaldesign

I did go to your myform link and sent you my IP, username and password. One big mistake I made though when I kept trying over and over again to make sure my hydrocephalus index page would publish as "index" is that I accidently did an override on my origional index page for my origional inspirations site and now I can't do any editing on that site because of that.

I'm wondering if it is impossible to get that origional index for my inspirational site back so I can still edit it or is that impossible? I wanted to be able to continue to edit that site too so I could add more pages to that site. Now I'm thinking that might be impossible and I'll just have to create a 2nd subdomain ect to do a whole new inspirational site.... though I didn't want to do that.

I hope sending you my IP password and username will help you see what I might be doing wrong and if it is even correctable or not for either the hydrocephalus site or the origional inspirational site.

Terri

You mean on computer level ? because i can see that your original index page is there. Also, the username or password you sent me, is wrong. Please check and send them again.

Hello,

Yes on the computer level I have no way of editing my inspirational web site because my original index page is gone to where I can't edit it anymore.

As for the username and password... what I sent is on all of the areas of the welcome letter I have. Should I just e-mail you the welcome letter then? If it would be ok to do that, I would prefer that because at this point I feel I can't do anything right. my e-mail address is: www.terrilynnspencer@charter.net
If it is ok to just e-mail you my welcome letter as an attachment, I would just need your e-mail address.

Terri

Terri

Yes please. And to find your old ondex page, you should open BV, New Page, From existing html page, in the URL field just type in your www.terri......com and BV will import the page from your site. You might need to make minor adjustments, and maybe re-insert some image, but 90% of your work will be there

Ok I've gotten the "new page" up. So now what? I go and open another BV and open an existing page? I'm confused.....
When I open any of my existing pages from BV I don't see any URL field at all. What should I click to make the URL field open when I'm in the exsisting page?

Terri

Please forward me the welcome email. The info you sent me is still the same but it is incorrect.

Originally Posted by TLS

Ok I've gotten the "new page" up. So now what? I go and open another BV and open an existing page? I'm confused.....

Terri

You must NOT open a new page. You must open a NEW PAGE FROM EXISTING HTML

Never mind, i'll do it for you and send you the page.

However i must leave now. I have mailed you so you can send me the welcome email that you have received from VodaHost, so i can check your loggin info and see what's going on. Tomorrow morning i'm going to fix also your page and mail it to you. Ok ?

Ok, thanks for your help. I'm so sorry about all of this. I don't understand computers very well anyway and to be in constant pain from hydrocpehalus headaches is unbearable at times. I know one big symptom of shunt failure is poor memory and confusion. I know that is at least part of the problem. Unfortunately they won't do diagnostic tests here in Minnesota like they should so I'm getting a 2nd opinion in Maryland next month and hope I can "hold out" until I see this expert adult hydrocephalus neurologist and neurosurgan. I'm sorry for all of the confusion. I guess I'm just in unbearable pain from headaches and vision trouble right now and can't think at all anymore.

Terri

Terri, here are your problems solutions:

The link in the go menu for Kathy's story is set as :
http://www.terrilynnspencer.com/hydr...thysstory.html

instead you have published the page as "Kathy's Story.html" Open the page in BV, save it in your hydrocephalus folder as "kathysstory" .
Please note that i have already corrected that for you directly on your site, you you only need to save it, you don't need to republish.

The link in the Go menu for your Photo page, is set as
http://www.terrilynnspencer.com/hydr...us/photos.html

but your page has been published as "Hydrocephalus Photo Gallery.html". I also have corrected this page in "photos.html", but please, again, open the page in BV, and save it as "photos"

Your site is perfectly working now, and it can be reached directly by tyoing in IE www.hydrocephalus.terrilynnspencer.com

I'll come back to you emailng you your original site homepage.

Hello Naveldesign,

I just completed saving the pages in my computer like you suggested on the hydrocephalus site.

I do have a question about my origional inspirational site thougt which is, should I do the same thing with my files (pages) on my computer with that site too? The reason I ask is because I attempted it with the Stories 1 page for example. When I did, it came up "do you want to replace this? Since I didn't know why that would happen when it didn't happen when I did what you suggested with my hydrocephalus pages, I clicked "No" so I didn't make a horrible mistake.

In any case, my files or pages for my origional site are saved as: Stories 1, Stories 2, Stories 3, Stories 4 and Stories 5. Should those be changed and saved in my computer as stories1, stories2, stories3, stories4, and stories5 in my computer? I thought I should get clarification aboout this before I did it.

Also, I can't think but help wouldn't it just be easier on my origional inspirational site since I accidently did an override on my index page where I can't edit it in my system anymore if it might just be easier to have Go menus on all of the pages in the inspirational site. That way I can still do editing in the site without you having to do any importing.

I looked at the importing video and it looked too confusing to figure out. I just couldn't understand it at all.

Terri

Naveldesign,

I reread some of these posts on this thread and was finally able to get my origional index home page back on my computer where I can still edit it.

I did put a Go menu there; however, when I tried to put the URL links on it, none of them work at all. I'm not sure what the problem is. What do I keep doing wrong when it comes to this part of the publishing process?

I'm going to eventually deleate the buttons on the home/index page of my inspirational site; however, I want to wait and do that when the links in my Go menu work first if that makes sense.

Anyway, I thought I should let you know that I finally figured out how to import a page and was able to do that by rereading everything so you won't have to worry about doing that for me.

I just need to figure out what is wrong with my link buttons on my Go menu for this site.

Terri

Hello

When I'm trying to republish the origional index page for my inspirational site, it's not coming up correctly. For example I had to readd a counter and resaved the page when I did this. When I did and published, I made sure I published it under public_html; however, my counter won't come up at all. I'm so confused.

OK....if you REALLY want a Counter (not recommended, you know!)
Check to see if you installed it properly on the page, and then also verify you saved/installed the script properly to your public_html via FTP properly....it may be "missing" and simply has nothing to refer to ....