I just uploaded my first hand coded website.

Before upload: everything worked in Safari and Firefox. It passed the xhtml and the css validation without any error.

Now I upload it, and nothing works.

Nothing at all.

The iframe element stays dark. When I click on a thumbnail, nothing shows up in the iframe. The logo didn't load at all.

I put it in the same folder where the old site was (created with iWeb).

Looks like the upload destroyed my site.

I only get an index, and when I click on the name of the title page, I get the destroyed design.

What went wrong in the upload?

No idea.



hint: any chance of seeing the problem first hand?

My site is working now. Thanks to the great customer support by my webhost, Synhosting.

As far as I can tell, I named the folder for images "IMAGES" and that all-caps was a problem. Now it's "images" and it works.

I also didn't name the front page of the site "index.html", which probably was the second reason for my problem.

Looks like you have to call your front page "index.html" or the server software doesn't know what to do with it (or maybe it's the browser who gets confused when there's no "index.html").

There are obviously some rules to follow on how to put a site on a server

just two really:

1: files have to be in the same places relatively and not referenced as "file:////C:\Documents and Settings\My Name\My Webs\website\filename.ext"

2: Just remember that Windows is NOT case sensitive but Unix/Linux servers ARE. So "MyPicture.JPG is NOT the same as mypicture.jpg once it gets on the server.

Originally Posted by chrishirst

just two really:

1: files have to be in the same places relatively and not referenced as "file:////C:\Documents and Settings\My Name\My Webs\website\filename.ext"

In the same places relatively to what? And not referenced regarding what?

Could you expand on that?


PS: with my host you really do have to call your main page index.htm.

And not referenced regarding what?

If you are building the site with a WYSiWYG package on the HD of your machine, they will often use absolute referencing to the files and images etc (C:\path\) rather than a relative reference from the document or the site root (/path/file.ext). Hardcoding the drive letter and folders is of no use once you upload the site, because there probably isn't going to be a C:\Documents and Settings\ folder and even if there is, your site files will NOT be in it.

My short piece on includes shows relative addressing better than I could explain it.
http://www.candsdesign.co.uk/article...side-includes/

There are a few "standard" default document file names you can use. index.htm, index.html, index.php, index.shtm, index.shtml are the usual ones for Apache, but you can add to this list if .htaccess overrides are enabled.

Thanks for the link.

I had actually hand coded the site, as I don't even own a WYSIWYG application, as I erased iWeb from my hard drive.

So, that means I had relative references.

It was really the case sensitivity and the naming of the main page as "index.html" that I had to change.

Thanks for the link.

I had actually hand coded the site, as I don't even own a WYSIWYG application, as I erased iWeb from my hard drive.

So, that means I had relative references.

It was really the case sensitivity and the naming of the main page as "index.html" that I had to change.

I believe that you can also preview your web site beforehand on you PC. That is not a problem to test html files there