Thread: As far as I can see I did it right..but still not publishing.

Hi Everyone,

I must be missing something here. I have looked at the tutorials and some of the threads but still no joy.

My domain is www.floridathelastresort.com Only the index page will publish for me.

All the outside links are working, however if I want to link to www.floridathelastresort.com/photos.html it doesn't happen, in fact none of my own links will work.

I have a folder in BV listed as 'The Last Resort' and within that I have my individual pages. I have tried to publish under both the html extension and the bvp extension, to no avail.

Can you let me know what I am doing wrong please?

Many thanks in advance.

Michele

Michelle
It almost has to be something in how you are naming the pages (are you certain they are saved and published exactly as you have them in your links?)
or how you are publishing them- you are publishing them in the same way as you published your index page, yes?
PS - remember you do not add the .bvp, the sitebuilder does that for you, you just save with the name you select.

Michelle,

I agree with Liz...something is wrong with your naming of files or how your pages are being published. I would look at your public html and verify your published file names.

Keep Trying!! Index page loaded fine.

Daniel-

Thanks a million,

Will go back over all of this and come back. There is definitely something simple I am overlooking.

Michele

Ok so I have working this most of the night and still no joy. Here is what I am doing.

1. I re-downloaded the up to date version of BV and tried refreshing my browser (IE) when I go to republish a particular page.

2. Went back through the hyperlinking tutorials and all mine appear to be ok. e.g. www.floridathelastresort.com/rates.html . The previous link is what my typical sub link looks like in properties.

When I go to actually save an individual page, the 'file name' is 'photos' - the 'files of type' is an automatic bvp....identical to the index page I have already printed & published.

3. I created a new folder in BV to publish just the pages I want; e.g. 'index, photos, rates, etc.' At this time I am not publishing all pages; e.g. 'what_to_do_, shopping, newsletter' etc.

4. When I want to publish, I open the relevant pages and then go through the individual publishing requirements per page. Still the only one that gets published is the index.

Anything obvious here that I am doing wrong, or any suggestions?

thanks,

Michele

Nothing jumps out at me, but let's take it to basic.
Lets take the rates page, as an example.
You saved your rates page is rates, just rates, right?
and BV added the .bvp, right?
So you open the page in your sitebuilder,

Okay, now look at your menu button
In the edit area it says link type: http
and you have the correct url in there - http://www.floridathelastresort.com/rates.html

Save it again

then push the publish button, and it says successfully published, right?

Is this how you are doing it?
Any luck?

Hi Liz,

Yeah once again I have gone back through everything.

Again with rates in the edit menu it is saved as www.floridathelastresort.com/rates.html

I have done this with all of the pages I want to publish. I then decide whether I want them to open in self, blank etc. and this is all saved.

When I go to save my actual pages, I just name them index, photos, rates, contact, internationalpublications & ibifoundation. I don't add any extension to them. All lower case.

BV saves the 'Files of Type' as a .bvp.

I have then opened each page separately and published it....always getting a 'successfully published' ok.

Again I open my browser type in www.floridathelastresort.com and only the index page comes up. When I click on any of the links in my nav bar ....such as rates...I just get a http 404 error for all internal links.

I am stumped!

Michele

Hi ..

are you publishing to the same directory? public_html ??

Also, you mention creating a few folders - where did you create those, on your own computer or in your cp in file manager?

Hi,

Yeah all are being published to public_html.

I just created a new folder within my Blue Voda file and copied the applicable pages into it. I haven't done anything in my cp apart from setting up and email address for the site.

I am doing exactly the same thing with every page as I am doing with the index page, yet the index publishes and nothing else does.

Michele

can you just make a change on your index page - just add a few words and then resave and republish and see if that is republishing and your changes are showing? Can you do this now .. and let us know ..

ok will do

Michele

ok so the change I made saved and published, still no joy on internal links.

Michele

Originally Posted by micheleros

ok so the change I made saved and published, still no joy on internal links.

Michele

Okay .. so you appear to be publishing and the changes are showing ..

So now, let's open up your photos page - the .bvp file that you created and named, saved and published as photos ..

Let's open it and resave it in the same folder on your computer as your index one ... close blue voda and then go and reopen from that location, and publish to the same public_html .. and let's see if we can get this page published and found ...

No Joy.

I opened the photos page, made a small change to it, resaved it in the same location as the index page.

Closed BV, re-opened it, opened the photo page and went to publish. It said it published successfully.

I then opened a new browser, typed in www.floridathelastresort.com went to my nav bar at the side, clicked on photos, which opened to a http 404 error in a separate page.

Hmm!

Michele

O k ...

So I would like for you to go and log into your control panel .. I want you to browse to the public_html directory and once you are there, open this directory - inside you should see .html files - you will see the one called index - I am wondering if you see the one called photos??? Or any of the other pages you created and published? Or are you seeing a folder called photos? Just so I am clear, this photos page, you made it with blue voda right and published with just this name photos, all small letters - no spaces etc.,

yep, I published all the pages with all small letters

index
photos
rates
contact
internationalpublications
ibifoundation

will go to my cp and do as you say now,

thanks

Michele

Hi,

Ok so now on top of things it looks like I am having a problem with IE not responding.

Anyway I got into the public_html and yes I can see all of my pages,
index.html, photos.html etc there.

Michele

what is your ip publishing address?

Originally Posted by LadyEye

what is your ip publishing address?

Hi Holly, glad you got in this mystery - I can hardly wait to find out what it is..

Michelle - the Ladyeye will get to the bottom of this - she is aces!
Good luck you two!

Originally Posted by larazovich

Hi Holly, glad you got in this mystery - I can hardly wait to find out what it is..

Michelle - the Ladyeye will get to the bottom of this - she is aces!
Good luck you two!

Ha Ha Liz ... we will be calling Naval ..

My IP is 74.86.118.21

There is definitely something going on with my IE also as I have to keep shutting down. Have run my AVS but to no avail.

Anyway I have to catch a flight in a couple of hours, so if my computer crashes again I will just leave this until I get back tonight.

Thanks so much Ladies for all your help so far, I really appreciate it!

Ha! Agatha Christie mystery....me thinks.

Michele

Just before you take off ... please submit a support ticket and explain your issues .. support@vodasupport.com

ok will do.

Thanks,

Michele

Everyone,

Thanks very much. You were originally right and I wasn't seeing the forest for the trees I had been looking at the same thing for so long and going back and forth between tutorials all day.

I had saved in lower case in my BV files but not in my edit menu. I got so bogged down I didn't see 'Rates'. Everything else was lower case so I couldn't understand what I was doing wrong.

This is what I was doing in the edit menu:

Rates http://www.floridathelastresort.com/rates.html

so didn't even see the front header.

When I got back on my computer I sent support a screenshot of my files and they spotted it straight away.

Thanks so much for all your help, I really appreciate it. Sorry for all the consternation.

Have a great Christmas.

Michele

Great news Michele

You can always count on support to see those fine lines that we all take for granted ... I don't know how they do it!! But sure glad they are there for us all!!

Have a great Christmas yourself, from both Liz and I, as I know she will want to say so!!

I will close this thread, glad you are sorted!!