I have converted a GEDCOM file to html and uploaded an html file called "surnames". There are other files named "index", "notes" and "people". The surnames list now appear on my sit but when I click on "view" I get a list of surnames. However, when I click on a name I get an error message. "We're sorry. The page you tried to access is not available" Here are the links in question http://freepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/fileman/file_manager.cgi?cache=212276 and then when I click on "surnames" I see this page http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mcleodplus/surnames.htm but when I click on the name I get this http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mcleodplus/index/x0000002. htm#BLOCKLEY Thank you David

At 09:52 AM 5/23/2011, David McLeod wrote: >have converted a GEDCOM file to html and uploaded an html file called >"surnames". There are other files named "index", "notes" and "people". The >surnames list now appear on my sit but when I click on "view" I get a list >of surnames. However, when I click on a name I get an error message. > >"We're sorry. The page you tried to access is not available" ======== Make sure the files are where the link says they are AND that the file name is correct. ACKLES and ackles are not the same. pat

Hi David, No one can see your website using the File Manager URL. Instead, your main URL would end with /~yourAccountName/index.htm (or html). So yours is: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mcleodplus/ My first observation is you'll need to create a link from the "index" page to each of your individual pages (or to an index page in a folder for another section of your web). The pages surnames, notes, people won't be connected to "your site" if not on the "index.htm(l)" page. As far as the links from the surnames... Where are you wanting each surname to go (to)? Does Blockley have its own HTML page? Or are you taking a visitor right to the data on your World Connect? The reason I ask is with (I think I'm right) a relative URL of index/x0000000.htm# means you are linking TO http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mcleodplus/ But Blockley is not on your index page. Same with the rest. If your intent is to take the visitor to the page inside your World Connect, wouldn't you need an absolute link??? Like http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/whatever/your/wcpageis/blockley I haven't used the # symbol much so I may not be correct. But from a cursory look at the code, such as: <A HREF="index/x0000000.htm#(UNKNOWN_SURNAME)">(Unknown Surname)</A> I just don't see where index/x0000000.htm is pointing back TO and seems to me is pointing back to http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mcleodplus/ which is http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mcleodplus/index.htm (or l) Maybe someone else could comment? In the same vein, where do you have your notes, people, and surname pages? To have the pages work for an HTML website, each must have its own URL *and* be linked to the "index" page of your freepages. So you'd have: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mcleodplus/index.htm (orl) http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mcleodplus/notes.htm (or l) http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mcleodplus/surnames.htm(or l) http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mcleodplus/people.htm (or l) Let's say you had many "people" pages, so instead of one page, you had a folder named "people" (not very descriptive though). That would be: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mcleodplus/people/index.htm(or l) http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mcleodplus/people/maggie-simpson-blockley.htm(l) http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mcleodplus/people/george-mcalley-blockley.htm(l) http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mcleodplus/people/allison-flyer-fillborne.htm(l) Then you would link all the individual files TO (on) http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mcleodplus/people/index.htm(or l) Then you'd link the "people" index page's URL to http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mcleodplus/ which is http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mcleodplus/index.htm (or l) When a web visitor lands on the site's main "index" page, they could then click a link to the people folder, a link to a names page, etc. By the way, "We're sorry. The page you tried to access is not available" (a 404 page) usually means: 1. The page is not uploaded. 2. The page is uploaded but the link is written incorrectly so the web is saying, "we can't find it". 3. The page is uploaded but not linked (web doesn't know where to look) 4. The name in the link does not match the file's name. Blockley vs blockley (write all file names in lower case) Judy On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 9:52 AM, David McLeod <adytum7@sympatico.ca> wrote: > I have converted a GEDCOM file to html and uploaded an html file called > "surnames". There are other files named "index", "notes" and "people". The > surnames list now appear on my sit but when I click on "view" I get a list > of surnames. However, when I click on a name I get an error message. > > "We're sorry. The page you tried to access is not available" > > > > Here are the links in question > > > http://freepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/fileman/file_manager.cgi?cache=212276 > > and then when I click on "surnames" I see this page > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mcleodplus/surnames.htm > but when I click on the name I get this > > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mcleodplus/index/x0000002. > htm#BLOCKLEY > > > Thank you > David > > >