Hello. Does anyone know how long it will be before the RootsWeb mailing list ARCHIVES can be browsed??? Every time I try to browse the archives of a list, I get the same message: "Check back soon! We are currently in the middle of planned downtime, etc, etc." This has been happening for days. How long will it last? Thanks! John C. Carter spiff@atlantic.net

Anybody know IF this list has a listowner? I have asked to be contacted several times, and also wrote to RootsWeb-Help-admin@rootsweb.com and have not heard from the listowner. Any other suggestions? Thanks, Sandy

Nan, At 04:48 PM 3/9/01 -0700, you wrote: >I'm new at FTP. This is my first time trying to upload. I can't find >public_html on my screen. My letter from Betsy at Accounts said "when you >look in your directory, you'll see a subdirectory called "public_html. > >Cannot find the subdirectory, and have spent all day at this, including >two calls to CuteFTP help line. They said it was not their problem, and >to find the directory path to the remote directory...and to me, that's ALL >Greek. Here is how to setup CuteFTP on the site settings screen for your RootsWeb site: Label for site: I use the name of my site like, Plymouth town or Plymouth County for I have both. Use whatever name/label you want. FTP Host Address: users.rootsweb.com FTP site user name: the name given you by Rootsweb FTP site Password: password you set up with Rootsweb FTP site connection port: 21 with the above filled and the site name highlighted click the "Edit" button under it: Host Type: Auto-Detect Default Remote Directory: public_html Default Local Directory: Hit the browser button the find the folder on your own computer where the files are located for uploading There now it is all set up. It will automatically access your "public_html" folder on RootsWeb showing your site in the right hand column of CuteFTP and showing the Folder/files of what you want to upload in the left hand column of CuteFTP. Good Luck! --- Susan SGTAYLOR1@att.net My Genealogy Website - sgt http://home.att.net/~SGTAYLOR1/ ----------------------------------------------- USGW Mansfield, CT - http://home.att.net/~SGTAYLOR1/mansfield.html USGW New London, CT - http://home.att.net/~SGTAYLOR1/newlondon.html USGW Norwich, CT - http://home.att.net/~SGTAYLOR1/norwich.html USGW Windham, CT - http://home.att.net/~SGTAYLOR1/windham.html USGW Coordinator Plymouth Co., MA - http://www.rootsweb.com/~maplymou/ USGW Plymouth, MA - http://www.rootsweb.com/~macplymo/ *********************************************************

On 9 Mar 01, at 16:48, Nancy Dixon wrote: > I'm new at FTP. This is my first time trying to upload. I can't find > public_html on my screen. My letter from Betsy at Accounts said "when > you look in your directory, you'll see a subdirectory called > "public_html. > > Cannot find the subdirectory, and have spent all day at this, > including two calls to CuteFTP help line. They said it was not their > problem, and to find the directory path to the remote directory...and > to me, that's ALL Greek. > > Also a letter to RootsWeb Help, which evidently went to the same place > public_html is lurking...have not had an answer. Can't find the site, > either: users.rootsweb.com/~nycalexa > > Help? We've maintained NYJeffCo GenWebSite for years, but never had > to open a site. We're stumped. Nan: I just looked and your nycalexa account *does* have a public_html directory. So - let's see if we can figure out why you can't see it. 1) In your FTP set up, how is your Cute FTP configuration set up? You want to make sure that you haven't told Cute FTP to go ahead and place you inside the public_html directory. If it did so, then you wouldn't see it. By the way, the nycalexa account is set up almost identically to the nyjeffer account. If you are successfully using Cute FTP to access the nyjeffer account, just copy your configuration over and change the account & password. 2) How long have you had Cute FTP installed? If your copy is not a recent one, we'd recommend that you update it. Old levels of Cute FTP have problems with file dates in 2000 and 2001, making those files invisible to the Cute FTP program. Regards, Elsi

On 11 Mar 01, at 0:54, Stan King wrote: > I've organized some data on a branch of my family and would like to > make this info available to those who visit my site by using Active > Server Pages. Do Rootsweb's servers support ASP? No. Active Server Pages are specific to Microsoft operating systems (i.e. Windows in all its forms) and the web servers provided by Microsoft. RootsWeb servers run unix operating systems. In addition, ASPs constitute a form of "server side" processing and as such would not be permitted on RootsWeb servers, even if they were capable of supporting them. Regards, Elsi

I've organized some data on a branch of my family and would like to make this info available to those who visit my site by using Active Server Pages. Do Rootsweb's servers support ASP?

Hello Wendy, Thanks for the index tip. As for the page loss, The page I lost was my research page, (toppage 2, ) and, now, the only way I can upload is to manually transfer the page over from one side of my ftp system viewer, to the other, whereas before my wysiwyg editor was automatic.I have since acquired the page, but it's still more of a hassle than before. Any suggestions? Barry H. Camrose County GenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~abcamros/

----- Original Message ----- From: "Barry Hovelson" <hovelson@incentre.net> > Hello Group, > After making a minor change on my site, on my largest and most important page > on my site, THE PAGE DISAPEARRED , after uploading the change. What's happening > here? I've done this procedure numerous times prior to this without any problems. > Barry Hovelson > Camrose County GenWeb > http://www.rootsweb.com/~abcamros/default.htm > Your directory structure shows that default.htm page was last uploaded January 7, 2001. Evidently your upload didn't work. Rootsweb was down part of yesterday, I believe . . maybe just try again? Incidentally, you might want to rename your default file to index.html so that you can just have your users go to http://www.rootsweb.com/~abcamros/ without adding the named page. That would keep people like me from looking at your directory structure, too. :-) Wendy

Thanks to everyone for soothing my panic when I couldn't find our web site. I appreciate you. Shari Smith ----------- Bixby Historical Society P.O. Box 1046 Bixby OK 74008 http://www.rootsweb.com/~okbhs BixbyOHS@att.net

Hello Group, After making a minor change on my site, on my largest and most important page on my site, THE PAGE DISAPEARRED , after uploading the change. What's happening here? I've done this procedure numerous times prior to this without any problems. Barry Hovelson Camrose County GenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~abcamros/default.htm

I'm new at FTP. This is my first time trying to upload. I can't find public_html on my screen. My letter from Betsy at Accounts said "when you look in your directory, you'll see a subdirectory called "public_html. Cannot find the subdirectory, and have spent all day at this, including two calls to CuteFTP help line. They said it was not their problem, and to find the directory path to the remote directory...and to me, that's ALL Greek. Also a letter to RootsWeb Help, which evidently went to the same place public_html is lurking...have not had an answer. Can't find the site, either: users.rootsweb.com/~nycalexa Help? We've maintained NYJeffCo GenWebSite for years, but never had to open a site. We're stumped. Nan Dixon

All is well in RootsWeb land again. Enjoy! -Doc --- System Administrator and all-round guru RootsWeb <http://www.rootsweb.com/> maddoc@rootsweb.com MyFamily.com <http://www.myfamily.com> Ancestry.com <http://www.ancestry.com>

I received the same "The page cannot be displayed" lil tommy Personal Home Page http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~twparker Family Tree http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=twparker ----- Original Message ----- From: "S. W. Smith" <SS1919@worldnet.att.net> To: <RootsWeb-Help-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 1:37 PM Subject: Lost My Page > I tried to open our Bixby Historical Society web page this morning and got > 'page not found.' I then went to my WS_FTP Pro and connected. There was no > information at our site, just an empty public.html file! I disconnected and > tried again. This time the message showed 'connection refused.' A third > time showed a message, 'blocking operation in progress.' The page worked > fine, yesterday and I haven't done anything differently from the past. Will > someone try http://rootsweb.com/~okbhs/ and let me know if it opens for you. > > > Shari Smith - Webmaster > Bixby Historical Society > Bixby OK > BixbyOHS@att.net > > > > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 > Source for Family History Online. Go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrial1y.asp?sourcecode=F11HB >

According to Netwhistle, and confirmed by my own attempt, RootsWeb is down. Susan "S. W. Smith" wrote: > > I tried to open our Bixby Historical Society web page this morning and got > 'page not found.' I then went to my WS_FTP Pro and connected. There was no > information at our site, just an empty public.html file! I disconnected and > tried again. This time the message showed 'connection refused.' A third > time showed a message, 'blocking operation in progress.' The page worked > fine, yesterday and I haven't done anything differently from the past. Will > someone try http://rootsweb.com/~okbhs/ and let me know if it opens for you. > > Shari Smith - Webmaster > Bixby Historical Society > Bixby OK > BixbyOHS@att.net

We're doing some maintenance on our users / www box... So no one panic if they can't see their www.rootsweb.com pages. 8*) -Doc --- System Administrator and all-round guru RootsWeb <http://www.rootsweb.com/> maddoc@rootsweb.com MyFamily.com <http://www.myfamily.com> Ancestry.com <http://www.ancestry.com>

I tried to open our Bixby Historical Society web page this morning and got 'page not found.' I then went to my WS_FTP Pro and connected. There was no information at our site, just an empty public.html file! I disconnected and tried again. This time the message showed 'connection refused.' A third time showed a message, 'blocking operation in progress.' The page worked fine, yesterday and I haven't done anything differently from the past. Will someone try http://rootsweb.com/~okbhs/ and let me know if it opens for you. Shari Smith - Webmaster Bixby Historical Society Bixby OK BixbyOHS@att.net

> > When it asks for username and password, I type in the info requested. > When I try to publish, the directory path, that I try to publish to is ftp://users.rootsweb.com/public_html/ncbladen You publish to ftp://users.rootsweb.com/public_html Your account name and password are entered separately, and should not be part of the ftp URL. > However, I dont want to delete whats on the main page. My only concern is to upload to a file named african_american on the server. I created the african_american file in front page, and now trying to upload to the server. I'm not clear whether 'african_american' is a directory or a file name. If it is a file named african_american.html, just publish to the address above. To upload to a directory named african_american, publish to: ftp://users.rootsweb.com/public_html/african_american If you already have a page named african_american.html, uploading a new version to the same location will overwrite and replace the existing file. Pat

A bit off topic--anyone know how I can type the pound symbol in Word 2000 (L with a little squiggly or hyphen through it)? In an older version, the ASCI way was NUM LOCK on, ALT + 0 + 164. Doesn't work and I can't find it in various symbol files. Thanks, Marie.

you mean British pound sign? alt + 0163 £ not 0164 (¤) David Marie A Robinson wrote: > > A bit off topic--anyone know how I can type the pound symbol in Word 2000 (L > with a little squiggly or hyphen through it)? In an older version, the ASCI > way was NUM LOCK on, ALT + 0 + 164. Doesn't work and I can't find it in > various symbol files. > > Thanks, > Marie. > > ============================== > Ancestry.com Genealogical Databases > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist2.asp > Search over 2500 databases with one easy query!

My name is Sonya Brown, assistant coordinator for Bladen Co. NC, african american. genealogy. site. My problem is that I am having problems publishing with FrontPage 2000. When it asks for username and password, I type in the info requested. When I try to publish, the directory path, that I try to publish to is ftp://users.rootsweb.com/public_html/ncbladen However, I dont want to delete whats on the main page. My only concern is to upload to a file named african_american on the server. I created the african_american file in front page, and now trying to upload to the server. Here are some of the ftp addresses that I use. ftp://users.rootsweb.com/ncbladen/public_html/african_american ftp://users.rootsweb.com/public_html/ncbladen/african_american None of these ftps seem to work. Can you tell me what I appear to be doing wrong. I would appreciate any help you can give. Thanks, Sonya Brown SBrown __________________ Please visit our North Carolina BROWN and MEAR(e)S of Bladen and Columbus Counties website at: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~brownandmeares Bladen County African American Genealogy http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncbladen/african_american