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    1. [FreeHelp] uploading new pages
    2. Barbara Cox via
    3. I had to reload what I had changed this year which happened to be extensive and it went pretty smoothly (replacing the older appearing files with my copies of what I had changed). I wonder if their folder structure names have changed. I note that because my stuff is at: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~barbaracox/ etc etc and I noted someone's mention of trying: Finding Host users.freepages.rootsweb.com ... maybe try the format users.freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ (~yoursitename-here) ? Barb

    04/04/2016 02:44:40
    1. Re: [FreeHelp] uploading new pages
    2. Pat Asher via
    3. At 08:44 PM 4/4/2016, Barbara Cox via wrote: >I had to reload what I had changed this year which happened to be >extensive and it went pretty smoothly (replacing the older appearing >files with my copies of what I had changed). > I wonder if their folder structure names have changed. I note that >because my stuff is at: >http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~barbaracox/ etc etc > >and I noted someone's mention of trying: >Finding Host users.freepages.rootsweb.com ... > >maybe try the format >users.freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ (~yoursitename-here) No, that won't work because the URL freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~userID is a symlink (redirect), not your actual URL. Here's why. Freepages accounts were designed so you could have multiple URLs with only one account, e.g. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com http://freepages.family.rootsweb.ancestry.com http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com etc. Your actual account location is http://freepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/userID/genealogy_html/ That URL redirects to http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~userID/ Pat Geary has written an explanation including illustrations <http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gearyfamily/freepages-directory-structure.html> Pat A.

    04/05/2016 05:39:01