Someone tell me where to find the instructions for doing that? Please? I had them once, used them somewhere once, but darn if I can find it now! Thanks from Cheryl-the-memory-challenged

Pat Asher wrote: > At 09:49 AM 3/6/2012, Singhals wrote: >> On the first page, inserting >> what I wanted in there was a snap, so I copy'n'pasted into >> the other four. One worked great, exactly as expected. The >> other three, though ... I can't get rid of the program-coded >> ones and I can't make the new ones appear. Since it's real >> hard to muck up copy'n'paste (g), I'm more miffed than >> baffled. Keeps on another day and I'll be ticked not just >> miffed. (g) > > Cheryl, > > We need to see the pages to tell what might be wrong. What are the > URLs of the "problem" pages? Well, thanks, Pat, but these are off-line; I don't really need -help- just somewhere to complain among friends who speak HTML. (g) And, as it turned out, I posted the message and 2 hours later had it solved. Works that way fairly often. (what's the emoticon for eye-roll?) Cheryl

Cheryl, you had me trying to create a small site with PAF to see if I could see what might be wrong. You need to clearly say so if you don't want help! It sounded to me like you wanted help! Dora On 3/6/2012 6:51 PM, singhals wrote: > Pat Asher wrote: >> At 09:49 AM 3/6/2012, Singhals wrote: >>> On the first page, inserting >>> what I wanted in there was a snap, so I copy'n'pasted into >>> the other four. One worked great, exactly as expected. The >>> other three, though ... I can't get rid of the program-coded >>> ones and I can't make the new ones appear. Since it's real >>> hard to muck up copy'n'paste (g), I'm more miffed than >>> baffled. Keeps on another day and I'll be ticked not just >>> miffed. (g) >> Cheryl, >> >> We need to see the pages to tell what might be wrong. What are the >> URLs of the "problem" pages? > Well, thanks, Pat, but these are off-line; I don't really > need -help- just somewhere to complain among friends who > speak HTML. (g) > > And, as it turned out, I posted the message and 2 hours > later had it solved. Works that way fairly often. (what's > the emoticon for eye-roll?) > > Cheryl > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ROOTSWEB-HELP-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

At 09:49 AM 3/6/2012, Singhals wrote: >On the first page, inserting >what I wanted in there was a snap, so I copy'n'pasted into >the other four. One worked great, exactly as expected. The >other three, though ... I can't get rid of the program-coded >ones and I can't make the new ones appear. Since it's real >hard to muck up copy'n'paste (g), I'm more miffed than >baffled. Keeps on another day and I'll be ticked not just >miffed. (g) Cheryl, We need to see the pages to tell what might be wrong. What are the URLs of the "problem" pages? Pat Asher

Sharing a couple oddities that yesterday dumped in my lap. If you've have either of 'em pop up, at least I won't feel so lonely ... Scenario -- I wanted to create an easy-to-use webpage for the family to share at her 85th birthday party. So I used the default web-generator in PAF5.x which links the pictures so you had to click on each name to see the pics. It also fails to put in the usual [back][index][next] links. Since I generally hand-code my pages (and have since 1995 or so) -and- since PAF's code is pretty basic (no css, no JS, no Java, no Flash), I figured fixing those as a walk in the hallway. First page, great. Worked like a charm. Second page, first half went great. Midway down the page, though, I added the photo at the end of the 'graph, and del'd it from right-after-the-name, and Shaaazam -- the whole section went right-justified in a hanging-block. Next name, and the other 5 pages, worked fine again. Took me an hour to fix that one section and it's still not /precisely/ aligned with the ones before and after, but at least it's within a dozen pixels! Had me 'nother glass of ice-tea and an Oreo and came back to tackle the nav links issue. On the first page, inserting what I wanted in there was a snap, so I copy'n'pasted into the other four. One worked great, exactly as expected. The other three, though ... I can't get rid of the program-coded ones and I can't make the new ones appear. Since it's real hard to muck up copy'n'paste (g), I'm more miffed than baffled. Keeps on another day and I'll be ticked not just miffed. (g) Maybe if I drop some S'thrn Comfort into my tea? Cheryl

Yes!!! I am jumping for joy! Thank you so much, Pat. Our Query form now works - all the answers in an e-mail have been received. We would never have figured it out on our own. Genially, Cynthia Turk Cleveland District Round Table Webmaster www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohcdrt ____________________________________________________________ 60-Year-Old Mom Looks 27 Mom Reveals Free Wrinkle Trick That Has Angered Doctors! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4ed834eef1569b2b19m02vuc

Hi, Oops, I forgot the URL. Sorry. Here it is. www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohcdrt/ogsvol.html and www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohcdrt/ogsvol.tmp Cynthia > Hi, Pat, > > Thank you for your kind assistance. It feels like we are a > step > closer, but I still did not get an e-mail. Did this e-mail list > change > teh To: into a bracketed mailto along with the regular address? > The > page after the captcha now reads: > > On Tue Nov 29 15:54:15 2011, the following message was submitted via > the > mailmerge server running on nobody@www.rootsweb.ancestry.com > (Nobody): > > NAME: Cyn's Name [This is what I answered.] > ADDRESS: @99.13.42.76 [I answered 123 I forget, like Anystreet.] > > MESSAGE TEXT: > > None of the other questions are answered. I'm sure we did > something > wrong. Thanks again. > Cynthia > > > > At 11:50 PM 11/27/2011, you wrote: > > >The form looks ok. It does elicit a captcha test and says > > >that the following message has been sent. I think it sends the > > name, but > > >the address has an @ with 4 two digit numbers separated with > dots. > > The > > >other questions are not answered at all. No e-mail arrives, > either. > > I > > >think there is something wrong with the template file. > > > > Your template file does not say where to send the email. Change > the > > > > MAIL_HEADER= > > section to include an email address, e.g. > > > > MAIL_HEADER= > > To: <mailto:cdrt1@juno.com>cdrt1@juno.com > > From: @EMAIL@ > > Reply-to: @EMAIL@ > > Subject: @SUBJECT@ > > X-mail-agent: mailmerge v1.0 > > > > Also, the "use with MailMerge" action in File Manager should be > used > > > > for the template, not the form. Since File Manager uploads only > in > > > > binary mode, the use with MM command changes the template to a > plain > > > > ASCII text file. Delete the file containing your form, then > > reupload > > so it is a normal binary file. Then upload your revised template > > > and > > tell File Manager to use that file (the template) with MM. > > > > > > Pat Asher ____________________________________________________________ 53 Year Old Mom Looks 33 The Stunning Results of Her Wrinkle Trick Has Botox Doctors Worried http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4ed6914765bfdb0514m02vuc

At 09:06 PM 11/29/2011, you wrote: > Thank you for your kind assistance. It feels like we are a step >closer, but I still did not get an e-mail. Did this e-mail list change >teh To: into a bracketed mailto along with the regular address? Yep. The template should have the email address only -- No mailto:, no brackets. I also spotted a couple of other things. In your form, the path for the form action= directive is incorrect. The paths were changed a couple of years ago, but not everyone updated their instruction sheets. You may have been following an old one. On the WWW server, your FORM ACTION= tag should read <.form action="/cgi-bin/local/mailmerge.cgi/~ohcdrt/ogsvol.tmp" method="post"> I have inserted a leading dot following the opening bracket above to keep your email reader from trying to execute what it identifies as HTML. Remove that dot when copying the path to the actual form page. The other thing I spotted was in your template. The last two dot/period section delimiters appear to have a white space following the dot/period. Each section delimiter must be on a line by itself with NO white space. Since I am downloading/viewing the template with a browser, that is a binary transfer, so I can't be positive. Extra white space can happen if you do a copy and paste; or it can happen if you use a word processor to create your template. The template MUST be created in a plain text editor such as Windows Notepad, and saved and uploaded as a plain ASCII text file, regardless of what file extension you use to identify it on the server. If you used a word processor, create a new template using your text editor and upload that one. If using File Manager to upload, check the "use with Mailmerge" box for that file only. Pat Asher

Hi, Pat, Thank you for your kind assistance. It feels like we are a step closer, but I still did not get an e-mail. Did this e-mail list change teh To: into a bracketed mailto along with the regular address? The page after the captcha now reads: On Tue Nov 29 15:54:15 2011, the following message was submitted via the mailmerge server running on nobody@www.rootsweb.ancestry.com (Nobody): NAME: Cyn's Name [This is what I answered.] ADDRESS: @99.13.42.76 [I answered 123 I forget, like Anystreet.] MESSAGE TEXT: None of the other questions are answered. I'm sure we did something wrong. Thanks again. Cynthia > At 11:50 PM 11/27/2011, you wrote: > >The form looks ok. It does elicit a captcha test and says > >that the following message has been sent. I think it sends the > name, but > >the address has an @ with 4 two digit numbers separated with dots. > The > >other questions are not answered at all. No e-mail arrives, either. > I > >think there is something wrong with the template file. > > Your template file does not say where to send the email. Change the > > MAIL_HEADER= > section to include an email address, e.g. > > MAIL_HEADER= > To: <mailto:cdrt1@juno.com>cdrt1@juno.com > From: @EMAIL@ > Reply-to: @EMAIL@ > Subject: @SUBJECT@ > X-mail-agent: mailmerge v1.0 > > Also, the "use with MailMerge" action in File Manager should be used > > for the template, not the form. Since File Manager uploads only in > > binary mode, the use with MM command changes the template to a plain > > ASCII text file. Delete the file containing your form, then > reupload > so it is a normal binary file. Then upload your revised template > and > tell File Manager to use that file (the template) with MM. > > > Pat Asher > ____________________________________________________________ Refinance for 2.125%/3.053% APR Loans under 729K usually qualify for US GOV backed refinance programs http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4ed58fee4ad9caf2c9m02vuc

At 11:50 PM 11/27/2011, you wrote: >The form looks ok. It does elicit a captcha test and says >that the following message has been sent. I think it sends the name, but >the address has an @ with 4 two digit numbers separated with dots. The >other questions are not answered at all. No e-mail arrives, either. I >think there is something wrong with the template file. Your template file does not say where to send the email. Change the MAIL_HEADER= section to include an email address, e.g. MAIL_HEADER= To: <mailto:cdrt1@juno.com>cdrt1@juno.com From: @EMAIL@ Reply-to: @EMAIL@ Subject: @SUBJECT@ X-mail-agent: mailmerge v1.0 Also, the "use with MailMerge" action in File Manager should be used for the template, not the form. Since File Manager uploads only in binary mode, the use with MM command changes the template to a plain ASCII text file. Delete the file containing your form, then reupload so it is a normal binary file. Then upload your revised template and tell File Manager to use that file (the template) with MM. Pat Asher

Hello, Folks, Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. I thank you all for comments to help with my photos on my Lake County site. Hopefully now if you are not doing graphics you will have a substitute message. Your help is much appreciated. My new problem - Ohio Genealogical Society needs volunteers for the Conference next year. I am the co-volunteer recruitment chairman. I put a page up requesting that folks send us an e-mail but we are not getting much response. We have gotten several people let us know that our "form" does not work. There was no form, but folks did not get it. So I am requested to put up a fillble form. I have a set of instructions, and I thought we followed them pretty closely, but it does not work. The form looks ok. It does elicit a captcha test and says that the following message has been sent. I think it sends the name, but the address has an @ with 4 two digit numbers separated with dots. The other questions are not answered at all. No e-mail arrives, either. I think there is something wrong with the template file. I did upload both the form and the template to Rootsweb. I went to FileManager, refreshed, clicked on the form file, and said Use with MailMerge. I don't see anything else I can do. Can anyone help? It is at www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohcdrt/ogsvol.html The template is called ogsvol.tmp Thanks in advance for any assistance. Genially, Cynthia Turk Cleveland District Round Table webmaster www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohcdrt ____________________________________________________________ 53 Year Old Mom Looks 33 The Stunning Results of Her Wrinkle Trick Has Botox Doctors Worried http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4ed314d8d79fabc6am02vuc

I don't think it is anything we did. I think the issue is on their end. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 22:49:52 -0400 From: Dennis Wolstenholme <dennywj_8@hotmail.com> Subject: [ROOTSWEB-HELP] GuestBook problems To: <rootsweb-help@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <SNT133-W13C56D040B239192A8BBF8CDD40@phx.gbl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Recently when I try to view my guestbook I get the message below. Anyone else getting this when trying to view their guestbook?? Looks like a server problem. I tried loading older versions of my index file in which the view guestbook worked and got the same results. Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. Please contact the server administrator, root@localhost and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error. More information about this error may be available in the server error log. Denny Wolstenholme ------------------------------ To contact the ROOTSWEB-HELP list administrator, send an email to ROOTSWEB-HELP-admin@rootsweb.com. To post a message to the ROOTSWEB-HELP mailing list, send an email to ROOTSWEB-HELP@rootsweb.com. __________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ROOTSWEB-HELP-request@rootsweb.com with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the email with no additional text. End of ROOTSWEB-HELP Digest, Vol 6, Issue 21 ********************************************

Recently when I try to view my guestbook I get the message below. Anyone else getting this when trying to view their guestbook?? Looks like a server problem. I tried loading older versions of my index file in which the view guestbook worked and got the same results. Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. Please contact the server administrator, root@localhost and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error. More information about this error may be available in the server error log. Denny Wolstenholme

Pat, Thanks. I finally tripped upon that information after sending out my query to the webmasters group. Sharon On 10/20/11 3:01 AM, "rootsweb-help-request@rootsweb.com" <rootsweb-help-request@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Stepping down as webmaster (Pat Asher) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 08:17:47 -0400 > From: Pat Asher <pjroots@att.net> > Subject: Re: [ROOTSWEB-HELP] Stepping down as webmaster > To: rootsweb-help@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <463239.54682.qm@smtp101.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed > > At 10:28 PM 10/18/2011, Sharon Aronovitch wrote: >> I am turning over my role as webmaster to someone else. Is there any thing >> that has to be done other than my providing the new webmaster hostname, user >> OD and password? Can someone tell me how to change the webmaster name & >> email address with the accounts people? I did send a email and am waiting >> for a response. > > Notify accounts@rootsweb.com of the name and e-mail address of the > new web master. > > > Pat Asher > > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the ROOTSWEB-HELP list administrator, send an email to > ROOTSWEB-HELP-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the ROOTSWEB-HELP mailing list, send an email to > ROOTSWEB-HELP@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ROOTSWEB-HELP-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of > the > email with no additional text. > > > End of ROOTSWEB-HELP Digest, Vol 6, Issue 18 > ********************************************

At 10:28 PM 10/18/2011, Sharon Aronovitch wrote: >I am turning over my role as webmaster to someone else. Is there any thing >that has to be done other than my providing the new webmaster hostname, user >OD and password? Can someone tell me how to change the webmaster name & >email address with the accounts people? I did send a email and am waiting >for a response. Notify accounts@rootsweb.com of the name and e-mail address of the new web master. Pat Asher

Never mind. It is fixed now. David ---- dmorgan003@hawaii.rr.com wrote: > > Is ftp down? > > I am getting address unknown when I try to upload using Unix ftp. > > David > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ROOTSWEB-HELP-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message -- dmorgan003@hawaii.rr.com David W Morgan Ewa Beach Hawaii http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dmorgan/

Is ftp down? I am getting address unknown when I try to upload using Unix ftp. David

Hi folks, I am turning over my role as webmaster to someone else. Is there any thing that has to be done other than my providing the new webmaster hostname, user OD and password? Can someone tell me how to change the webmaster name & email address with the accounts people? I did send a email and am waiting for a response. As always, I appreciate the help of other webmasters. Sharon Aronovitch

Google Webmaster Tools are free -- it gives an onsite search box and you can see how Google 'sees' your site. Judy

At 09:01 AM 10/7/2011, Ruth Helvy wrote: >My site has been sorely neglected and I need to update things. One thing >I'd like to add is some sort of "Search this site" option. I am horribly >limited in html although I'll be going back through tutorials as I redo my >pages. I used a pretty easy wysiwyg program last time and everything went >well until the guest book came into play. I figured out enough html to fix >the problems there also with the support from this list. I've just wondered >how much has changed. I know that the options for fancy things are pretty >limited, but I would like some sort of search option. ============ See if this helps http://www.genealogy-web-creations.com/adding-search-engine.html pat Pat Geary Working With Rootsweb FreePages Accounts EBook (free) http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gearyfamily/rootsweb-freepages-ebook.html