Thread: Need help please

Thought I was clever and published my site. (I'm a Greenhorn)
This is what I got in my browser, where did I muck it up please?

Index of /aiim

• Parent Directory
• AIIM.html
• Index.html
• Money-Print-C10055084.JPG
• bv01003.gif

Apache/2.2.8 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.8 OpenSSL/0.9.8b mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 Server at www.sitesunion.com Port 80Thank you

Hi, to reach your site at this address www.sitesunion.com you need to publish a page called index only in lower case letters with no html extensions to your public_html directory. This will then be your home page.

Thank you, my site was up in a flash. well done.
But if I go into my www.sitesunion.com, the gibberish as displayed in my original post still comes up. my site comes up on the extension/AIIM
How do i get rid of this?

Hi ..

It looks as though you have created a few sub-directories for your website .. this is no doubt what is confusing you ...

If this is to be the main page of your website, http://www.sitesunion.com/aiim/ , the page that you want found when you type in www.sitesunion.com - then you will need to rename, resave and republish this page as index

You need a page called index to be the landing page of your domain ..

From this index page is where you will want to place the navigation to the rest of your site .. or if you have it as a log in page for members only, once they go inside to the page linked from your index page, you will want to supply the navigation to and from all your other pages ..

It is best, as well if you name all of your pages with small letters, this will get confusing in time to come for you, as well as your visitors.

Since you have sub-folders created for "aquarium" and "soccer" .. the pages you create for these will need to be published into that folder ..
So perhaps once they go through the main page, and sign in, your navigation should include a link to the aquarium area and a link to the soccer area - and a link to any other areas (sub-folders) of information ..
as it is now I wouldn't know how to get to the soccer area from your aquarium area .. but perhaps you do not want to do this anyway, maybe it is separate areas for members???? not sure

And I thought I noticed pages with .php extension and pages with .html extension .. should use one or the other I think ...

Oh, and I should mention, that if those are the pages to be found by members only .. then you are going to want to put those pages in a password protected directory .. ???

Who ever you are, lady beedy eye, your help was much appreciated, I have worked it out with your help, one of these days I'll be up and running. Got my new form work installed and working too. I love voda and have just said goodbye to my other web hosts. We're coming lock stock and barrel.
Thank you all

Originally Posted by bucksbunny

Who ever you are, lady beedy eye, your help was much appreciated, I have worked it out with your help, one of these days I'll be up and running. Got my new form work installed and working too. I love voda and have just said goodbye to my other web hosts. We're coming lock stock and barrel.
Thank you all

ah, are you sure you are not Elmer Fudd instead of the BunnyWabbit, coming lock stock and barrel, LOL ..

ah, thank you, you will be up and running for sure soon, and there is always the help you need right here .. we are all glad to have you ..
lock, stock, barrels, fudds and wabbits!!

Congrats to you!!

Hi Bucks,
Long time no hear from you my friend. Waar was jy my omie? Hoop dit gaan goed.
I'm very glad you are coming right lock, stock, barrels, yachts and open ocean here with us.

Hi Tom,
Man, Am I glad to hear from you, as though you were sent.
here is a URL,
http://www.sitesunion.com/aiim/contactform%5B2%5D.html it take you to a form I have set up,this next URL will take you to my thank you page,
http://www.sitesunion.com/aiim/thankyou.php

OK, now the problem is two fold:-
1. When I fill in the form I do not receive an email to my email address,
2. It does not proceed to the thank you page. At around 2.30 am this morning I concked in and called it the day (night). I can recite the tutorials off by hard, so these do not help... how about it Tom, please one more time.
Thanx
Bux

Hi Bux,
Not sure, but on your BV page properties, change the thankyou page extension to html (not php). Then save and re-publish again.

Originally Posted by Tom vR

Hi Bux,
Not sure, but on your BV page properties, change the thankyou page extension to html (not php). Then save and re-publish again.

The thank you page should be .php not .html. You haven't published your thank you page as a .php page and this is your problem.

Your contact form also appears to have gaps in it's name???

Originally Posted by Marincky

The thank you page should be .php not .html. You haven't published your thank you page as a .php page and this is your problem.

Your contact form also appears to have gaps in it's name???

Ramsey,
It seems like his site is designed in html. http://www.sitesunion.com/aiim/index.html

His contactus page is also html, but the thankyou page is php. That is why I want him to try html for his ty page as well.

Originally Posted by Tom vR

Ramsey,
It seems like his site is designed in html. http://www.sitesunion.com/aiim/index.html

His contactus page is also html, but the thankyou page is php. That is why I want him to try html for his ty page as well.

Tom, even if the rest of his site is in .html he still MUST publish his thankyou page as .php and then code the page to submit an email as per these instructions

Sorry LOL,
I forgot. Long time (about a year) since I created my one.
Sorry Bux.

Originally Posted by Tom vR

Sorry LOL,
I forgot. Long time (about a year) since I created my one.
Sorry Bux.

No worries Tom, just happy to help get this guy sorted, either way he hasn't published a thank you page in .html OR .php so...

Hi folks, Ramsey, Tom
Thanx for the input.
It's Saturday morn and still as stymied as ever, not to speak of my frustration at my ignorance.
Now, when I try and publsh the page, it wants to publish it to
/public_html/aiim (aiim is the index page)
Furthermore, when I check it in my computer browser to see if all I have saved is OK to publish I have this whatever it is appearing above my table in which the page resides. The thank you page was designed as a page, not a form, that's right, not so?
This is the gremlin that is on the page when I view in the trial browser.
img { behavior: url("pngfix.***"); }
Thanx again

I want to add a little to the previous post, seeing you have not yet been there, perhaps you can address this for me also.
I am afraid to try and publish anything, as I do not know if it will work. I would like to know how, and if, one can remove a dud once it has been published to the web? .
I'm getting very despondent, I have many ideas, have about 14 articles and an ebook written about ready to publish, but no site to refer people to.
Heeeeelp tog assebief, That is just a cry for help in the Afrikaans language, (specially for Tom who seaks the lingo) for those who did not get it! Sorry to do this to you guys, but many thank yous.
Bux

Hi Bux,
The thank page must be named action. In page properties, set the extension to php. The page is a standard page with the necessary thank you message. You can also put your menu bar and logo, etc on the page as well.

Regarding your dud page: Usually it is not necessary to delete a page if you are redesigning it and keeping the page name the same. You simply edit the page and republish it. The old one will automatically be overwritten.

If you need to delete an unused page or picture, etc you can use the File Manager on your BV control Panel. Click here to learn more. In there you will see "Using the File Manager".

You can of course use the FTP Manager in the Tools menu as well, but since you are (as you said) a greenhorn, it could be a little dangerous because if you delete a page with the FTP, it is lost, whereas if you delete it with the file manager, it goes to a recycle bin. It is recommended not to clear the recycle bin for some time. Just in case..
Lekker bly.

Hi Tom,
I was wondering if we could arrange a telecon. It is now 11.10 p.m. I have battled all day to get the stuff to work but no go.
If you give me your tel no I will call yopu.
I am stymied and ready to hurl in. it started off as fun, but with no one to help with the technical stuff I'm truly ........ ing mad.
i dont know why a plain button can not find a site yet another does.
If possible I would appreciate it. I am wasting so much time it is realy getting to me from 9 am this morning and no progress.
I have uploaded the thank you page, but I can't find it, not to move it even to see it.
Bux

Ok, I am extreeeeemely new to this. I keep reading about publishing an index page. Can someone please be more specific with directions on how to do that. I am also getting the Index of/ page.

Please help.

Thanks.

Hi kbcooley,

The index page is your "landing page" the page that visitors will see when they open your website (url).

In BV, give this page a name and this name must be index (all small letters). This name is given when you save the page on your computer. Then go ahead and Publish your page. Whatch the tutorials. Specially the one about Publishing.

Got it. Very cool. My first site is up and running. I still have several things to complete. Not all the links are working yet, primarily because I haven't built the pages for them yet. All in all, I am happy with it, for now. Working on two other sites for my business now. Loads of fun!!!!!