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Website publishes but is not showing up...

Hi there!!! This is my 1st ever post on the apple support communities so be nice xD

Ok...Brace yourself.

I have made my 1st website in iWeb and have tried ALL yesterday to get it to bloody appear on my domain and it is still laughing at me.

I have tried to publish it through iWeb and it does appear on my server like so:

http://gyazo.com/90f389acfa26dc9a18c280505ed322de

But when I visit the website I get this:

http://gyazo.com/db8611d96ff60d8ba97ae01e66950e50

I have also tried exporting the website to a folder and uploading it via filezilla but still get the same problem... I am uploading it to the Public_html directory.

I seriously have not got a clue how all this stuff works and dont fancy paying a guy £500+ to change one filename for me.

It would be great if one of you can help me!!!

Michael

iWeb '08, iOS 6.0.2

Posted on Jan 12, 2013 3:27 AM

89 replies

Jan 13, 2013 3:27 AM in response to Electricaltradesmen

This is because you have uploaded the contents of the folder in which the site itself is contained, and there is an index.html file which redirects to the Home page (if the domain name alone is entered on any server and an index.html file is present the browser will go to the index.html page).

So http://www.electricaltradesmen.co.uk (please always include the http:// when you post a URL) bounces you on to the actual Home.html page.

This is the coding of the index/html file"

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title></title><meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url= Home.html" /></head><body></body></html>

You need instead to have and index.html file with a frame as I indicated in my earlier post - however as you've now uploaded the contents of the site folder instead of the folder itself the coding is different. So, there are two ways of dealing with this.

1. Clear the site from the server completely and then re-upload the folder with the sitename: then follow my earlier instructions.

2. (which you may prefer), leave the site as it is. Then open TextEdit IN PLAIN TEXT MODE and paste in the following code:

<HTML>

<HEAD>

<TITLE>Electrical Tradesmen</TITLE>

</HEAD>

</BODY>

</NOFRAMES>

</FRAMESET>

</HTML>

Save it as index.html - don't let TextEdit ad .txt on the end. Upload it to the root level of your server, replacing any index.html file which is already there. Note that you may need to re-upload it again after making and uploading changes to the site.

Jan 13, 2013 3:19 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1

Yes, I have uploaded the contents and not the actual folder its in. Should I try that? and see what happenes?

Michael

Jan 13, 2013 3:25 AM in response to Electricaltradesmen

You posted while I was still constructing my post above. I would advise you to leave the site as it is and follow method 2 in my previous post.

Jan 13, 2013 3:28 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1

okey dokey

I appreicate your help

Jan 13, 2013 4:21 AM in response to Electricaltradesmen

No, no, NO! You've posted the code I gave you into a web page creator! The result is that the code now shows when you go to your domain URL. Please follow my instructions exactly and use TextEdit.

Jan 13, 2013 4:21 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1

Hi Roger, I have just pasted that index.html into my Public_html and replaced the existing index.html.

Now I have this problem http://www.electricaltradesmen.co.uk

😟

Jan 13, 2013 4:22 AM in response to Electricaltradesmen

See above (I answered before you asked 🙂)

Jan 13, 2013 4:22 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1

HAHA, I'm such a retard.

hmm

Jan 13, 2013 4:32 AM in response to Electricaltradesmen

I'm making you a video...

I am new to this stuff. It is actually giving me a headache 😀

Jan 13, 2013 4:41 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1

Roger my friend. I have a made a short video in what I am thinking how you are telling me to do it.

http://youtu.be/tvg7cnOS8zo

I may be completly incorrect but please dont shout.

I could be the next steve jobs

Michael

Jan 13, 2013 4:50 AM in response to Electricaltradesmen

I'm sorry,but that video doesn't really help. Now, as you've evidently cleared at least some of the files off the server, let's start again. Please follow these instructions exactly and to the letter.

1. Clear the server completely.

2. Having published to a local folder, upload the contents of the site folder as you did before, so that Home.html and the other pages are at the root level of the server.

3. Open TextEdit. Check that it is in plain text mode - go to the Format menu and if there is an item which says 'Make Plain Text' choose it; if it says 'Make Rich Text' leave it alone.

4. Paste in the following code.

<HTML>

<HEAD>

<TITLE>Electrical Tradesmen</TITLE>

</HEAD>

</BODY>

</NOFRAMES>

</FRAMESET>

</HTML>

5. Save it as index.html. TextEdit will bring up a dialog box asking if you want to add .txt on the end - click 'use .html'.

6. Upload this file to the root level of the server; you will be asked if you want to replace the existing index.html file - do this.

Keep that index.html file separately because every time you re-publish your site you will then have to upload it again.

Jan 13, 2013 4:54 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1

currently following your instructions

Jan 13, 2013 4:58 AM in response to Electricaltradesmen

I see you've got the site back up correctly. Now for the TextEdit bit...

Jan 13, 2013 5:04 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1

You've done it again, pasted it into a web page creator so that the code is surrounded by the code for a page. You must do it in TextEdit in plain text mode. And you've taken the site down again - there's no need at all to keep doing that.

I shall be offline now until around 4 p.m. - I'll check back then.

Jan 13, 2013 5:05 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1

haha. you better bring some headache pills with you

I do appreicate yoour help Roger

Website publishes but is not showing up...