Is anyone having problems connecting to users.rootsweb for uploading files? Since they have upgraded I get the message "connection refused." I use WS-FTP Pro and settings are the same as always. Did I miss something that is need to use the upgrade? Any help is appreciated. Shari

Rootsweb is not yet back in its entirety. I think the FTP function is not as yet 'functioning' as I can not log into my site even tho my site is now viewable. Be patient, probably by tomorrow all will be back to normal and you can log in. Fleta ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sarah A. V. Kirby" <sarah@vandeventer.net> To: <RootsWeb-Help-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2001 6:37 PM Subject: Change of web ownership - how? > I can't access the message archives right now so I'm sending this e-mail. > > What steps are necessary to change a USGenWeb webmaster owner? > > I've been given what I think are all the correct settings, but can't seem to > get in via my ftp software or via the web. Does the former owner need to > notify someone? > > I'm using FTP Voyager version 7.1 from RhinoSoft which I use with a couple > of other accounts with no difficulty. > > Settings I think I should be using: > > FTP Site: users.rootsweb.com > default directory: public_html > user id: (stname - state and county name) > password: (as given by former webmaster) > > ___________________ > Sarah A. V. Kirby > sarah@vandeventer.net > > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry's Library - The best collection of family history > learning and how-to articles on the Internet. > http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library > >

I can't access the message archives right now so I'm sending this e-mail. What steps are necessary to change a USGenWeb webmaster owner? I've been given what I think are all the correct settings, but can't seem to get in via my ftp software or via the web. Does the former owner need to notify someone? I'm using FTP Voyager version 7.1 from RhinoSoft which I use with a couple of other accounts with no difficulty. Settings I think I should be using: FTP Site: users.rootsweb.com default directory: public_html user id: (stname - state and county name) password: (as given by former webmaster) ___________________ Sarah A. V. Kirby sarah@vandeventer.net

Hi all, I'm very happy you folks are here with your wealth of experience and expertise... Maybe someone has the answer to this: I haven't been able to upload files to RootsWeb through the FTP from AOL for several days now. I know RootsWeb had a scheduled downtime this weekend, but shouldn't we be able to upload files by now? Thanks. Kate

Thanks to everyone who answered my question regarding uploading. After a few more mistakes, I am now on the web. Marla

Brent - Since the message references a problem with the filename - I think the problem is that the Rootsweb server does not allow filenames with spaces. It looks as if the filename you are trying to upload is Ware Vital Records Index.htm. Try changing the name to WareVitalRecordsIndex.htm and see if you can upload it. Also - remember that the Rootsweb servers are case sensitive - so any links to this file will have to exactly match the file name. Hope this helps! Tracey Morris Brent and Marla Larson wrote: > > Hi, > > I am totally new at uploading files. At the moment, I am evaluating > WS_FTP Pro from Ipswitch. Finally, I have made progress. I can get > connected to the server. But then I get the following message. > > Transfer Ware Vital Records Index.htm from <local> failed > > 550 Ware Vital Records Index.htm: Permission denied on server. [Filename > [accept]] > > I know I am using the correct user name and password. I copy and paste > those each time. I am fairly sure the problem is arising because my > account name. I am not sure what to use. I have tried using > "http://www.rootsweb.com/~mawarevr/"<filename> minus of course the part > that says "<file name>" but have included the rest of the file name. I > have tried it without the ~ in it but then I get disconnected from the > server without even getting connected. I have looked at the archives > for the list and have found other people have had the exact same problem > but I couldn't quite understand the solution. > > I used Netscape Composer to set up the data. But, the data that is > saved on a floppy via my A: drive. > > Would someone please help me. Please, use simple terms in your > explanation. I would really like to get this data loaded before my month > trial is up with Ipswitch. > > Thanks > Marla > blarson@ubtanet.com > > ============================== > 9 Health Tips for Computer Genealogists > http://www.thirdage.com/features/tech/ouch/

Hi, I am totally new at uploading files. At the moment, I am evaluating WS_FTP Pro from Ipswitch. Finally, I have made progress. I can get connected to the server. But then I get the following message. Transfer Ware Vital Records Index.htm from <local> failed 550 Ware Vital Records Index.htm: Permission denied on server. [Filename [accept]] I know I am using the correct user name and password. I copy and paste those each time. I am fairly sure the problem is arising because my account name. I am not sure what to use. I have tried using "http://www.rootsweb.com/~mawarevr/"<filename> minus of course the part that says "<file name>" but have included the rest of the file name. I have tried it without the ~ in it but then I get disconnected from the server without even getting connected. I have looked at the archives for the list and have found other people have had the exact same problem but I couldn't quite understand the solution. I used Netscape Composer to set up the data. But, the data that is saved on a floppy via my A: drive. Would someone please help me. Please, use simple terms in your explanation. I would really like to get this data loaded before my month trial is up with Ipswitch. Thanks Marla blarson@ubtanet.com

Hi, What is needed is the full header of the message. All that the data below is telling us is that a portion of the message is encoded. Have one of the technical people at rootsweb look at the full headers on the original message. From there it will be possible to match the output with what is expected in order to conform with Internet standards. From there the answer should be obvious. Cheers, Jason Linda Crawford wrote: > What he says he gets is what I included in the message. I understood him to mean he didn't receive anything other than this. > > Part 1.1 Type:Plain Text(text/plain) > Encoding: quoted-printable > > This is in regards to my MOHICKOR list at Rootsweb. No one else on the list receives this. I am fairly new at this and trying to learn. Linda Crawford > > ============================== > Add as many as 10 Good Years To Your Life > If you know how to reduce these risks. > http://www.thirdage.com/health/wecare/hearthealth/index.html

What he says he gets is what I included in the message. I understood him to mean he didn't receive anything other than this. Part 1.1 Type:Plain Text(text/plain) Encoding: quoted-printable This is in regards to my MOHICKOR list at Rootsweb. No one else on the list receives this. I am fairly new at this and trying to learn. Linda Crawford

Hi, Sure, the answer dates back to 1993 when the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) approved Request For Comments (RFC) 1521 titled: "MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions Part One: Mechanisms for Specifying and Describing the Format of Internet Message Bodies." More helpful to your technical staff would be for them to visit section 5.1 of the subject RFC, which is titled: "Quoted-Printable Content-Transfer-Encoding." It is a fairly lengthy description with lots of semantic syntax examples. I would need to see an example message to tell you specifically if there is an encoding error or not. Better still, I'm sure the staff at rootsweb would enjoy doing that. One thought is that if someone tries to send a binary file (e.g., a photograph) as a quoted-printable content transfer encoded message to the listserve the result will be a bombed message since the listserve does not handle photographs. So long as the encoding follows the RFC "quoted-printable" is a valid and often used transfer encoding. Jason Linda Crawford wrote: > A subscriber to my MOHICKOR list says he is getting the following type messages. I checked with the others on the list and no one else is having this problem. Does anyone have an answer? Thank you. Linda Crawford > > Part 1.1 Type: Plain Text (text/plain) > Encoding: quoted-printable > > ============================== > Create a FREE family website at MyFamily.com! > http://www.myfamily.com/banner.asp?ID=RWLIST2

A subscriber to my MOHICKOR list says he is getting the following type messages. I checked with the others on the list and no one else is having this problem. Does anyone have an answer? Thank you. Linda Crawford Part 1.1 Type: Plain Text (text/plain) Encoding: quoted-printable

Good Morning, Another photograph has been added to the "Images From the Past" Section of the VERMONT Web Site. This photograph, "The Finney Family", (of Sharon, Windsor County, VT) was submitted by Charles Anderson. The "Images From the Past" Section can be accessed from: http://www.rootsweb.com/~vermont/VERMONTGATEWAY.html Please remember, if other members on the list have photos, articles, etc. [pertaining to the history and/or genealogy of Vermont], and you would like to share this information with the list, I would be delighted to include them on the Web Site. Please contact me to let me know if you want to participate. Best wishes, Karima Vermont-L Web Site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~vermont/

When I set up my account name, I did not fully understand it would be the basic item in my URL -- I know the instructions at some point said so, but I did not understand. The name I used has confused people and I need to change it. How is this accomplished?

Kathy, I also had difficulty getting sites to load properly. Loading was very slow or did not load completely. This occured on my site and another site also. I have a power Mac and AOL is the the internet service. Joel

Hello Everybody! One of my "partners" for the Sullivan Co. Hist. Soc. site has been repeatedly having trouble getting our site to come up or come up correctly on his computer. This has happened on the evening of Sunday, Feb. 6 (I thought it might be "traffic" on the Web), it happened again the morning of Sunday Feb. 11, again yesterday (but I was fiddling with the site yesterday, so he might have tried to visit it during my "fiddling" time), and once again this morning (Wednesday). This morning he was able to try again a little later and it showed up okay. He's getting things like *very* slow or non-loading, not able to see the counter at the bottom left-hand side of home page, page layout off-center, and photos not showing up. He's on an IBM-compatible using Microsoft Explorer as his navigator (I don't know which version... have asked him to check) and he's on AOL, if that might make a difference. I've had no difficulty whatsoever getting onto the site--I'm on a Mac and have checked it with Netscape Communicator 4.7 and Microsoft Explorer 5.0, and my internet access is Bell Sympatico (Quebec & Canada). We haven't heard from anybody else having similar problems, but that might be because they couldn't get into the site... I'm still quite new at being a Webmaster--I don't know if this is just something that happens every once in a while or if it's something that I can fix. If anybody can give me some kind of help, or just reassure me that it's "normal," I'd sure appreciate it! :-) By the way, thank you to Mona and Ron for responding to my question on setting up a surname page--I've been up to my ears juggling family, work, and the Web site--sorry I didn't thank you right away. :-o Kathleen (Kathy) Larson, Webmaster Sullivan County Historical Society http://www.rootsweb.com/~inschs/

>One of my "partners" for the Sullivan Co. Hist. Soc. site has been >repeatedly having trouble getting our site to come up or come up >correctly on his computer. [snip] >Kathleen (Kathy) Larson, Webmaster >Sullivan County Historical Society >http://www.rootsweb.com/~inschs/ Everything looks fine from here. There are no HTML errors on your page, and the page size is small. I suspect that your visitor is having problems with a slow internet connection. You could ask him to try a traceroute -- instructions are at: http://freepages.computers.rootsweb.com/~keebaugh/troubleshooting/ This should show where the problem is, but you probably can't do anything about it, except change ISPs. Regards Jim Keebaugh

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Title graphics does not load completely. Background graphics does not load. Checked HTML code, appears to be okay. www.rootsweb.com/~flcfaahg. Site previously worked correctly. Joel

>Title graphics does not load completely. Background graphics does not load. >Checked HTML code, appears to be okay. www.rootsweb.com/~flcfaahg. > >Site previously worked correctly. > >Joel I see some illegal characters in your page source. For example, your body tag looks like: <.BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff" VLINK="#00ff00" LINK="#0000ff" ALINK="#00ffff"|BACKGROUND="l50marble20.gif"> (Without the added dot, of course.) There is a "|" showing just before the background tag. This will prevent the background from working on some browsers. Depending on what that character actually is, some browsers on some operating systems may work, while others will not. I would suggest that you upload your page again. That should fix the problem. Regards Jim Keebaugh

At 12:30 PM 02/12/2001 -0700, Nel Hatcher wrote: > >I am in the process of setting up a Mail Merge Forms page, and have gotten >the dreaded "Permission denied" msg when I submit a test msg. > >>From the Rootsweb Mail Merge site comes this explanation: > ><<Some Common Problems >The most common problem using Mail Merge is setting your output files >incorrectly. If your output file is not set to be read and writeable then >your user will get a "permission denied" error message. If that happens, you >will need to use your FTP client to make the file "world writable." >> > >Now I have just been through every single option on WS-FTP trying to figure >out how to make my file "world writable" and have come up with a goose egg. > >My page can be seen at http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~nhatcher/HatForm.htm > >Anyone know what it is I'm supposed to do?? To make a file world writable with WS_FTP, highlight the file on the server and then right click the file. In the dropdown menu, select "chmod (Unix)". Then just make sure the checkmark is in the "Write" box in all three columns. However, you have another problem -- your <form> tag reads: <form action="/cgi-bin/mailmerge.cgi/u1/nhatcher/public_html/quer y.txt" method="POST"> Notice the carriage return in the middle of the file name "query.txt" -- you need to close that up onto a single line. You're also missing the periods which act as section separators in your template file. YOu need one on the line before "OUTPUT_FORM=" Regards, Elsi > >Thanks bunches, >Nel > > >============================== >Shop Ancestry - Everything you need to Discover, Preserve & Celebrate >your heritage! >http://shop.myfamily.com/ancestrycatalog > > >