At 06:55 PM 04/12/2001 -0400, Dick Kraus wrote: >Hope somebody out there can help me. > >About one year ago, I published by web site using Front Page. After several >unsuccessful attempts which took up one week, I found that using the >destination address: ftp://homepages.rootsweb.com worked. The only problem >was that although Front page told me the upload was successful, when I tried >to access it, I got the message that it could not be accessed. Then in >response to my plea, I was told via e-mail by Betsy Mills that "You uploaded >all your files outside the public_html directory. They are not visible on >the internet unless they are INSIDE that directory, so I moved them for you >to help get you started. This is a major problem that occurs when using >FrontPage and I do not know how to tell you to avoid it." > >Then my site worked. But the whole process was so traumatic that I have not >gotten up enough courage to try to update it till now, a year later. > >I reasoned that maybe I should have tried to send my site to >ftp://homepages.rootsweb.com/public_html. After using my user ID and my >Password as given me by RootsWeb, the upload started. Then it stopped with >the following FrontPage message: "This FTP server doessn't support folder >names that contain spaces. Rename the source web's folder corresponding to >"images/New Folder", and any other folders that have spaces in their names, >and try again." > >In the site I was trying to upload there were two folders with spaces: >"_private" and "_themes". The images folder had no spaces: "C:\My >Documents\My Webs\rakroots\images" that were not there when I first >uploaded. So I deleted the two spaces in the two folder names and tried >again. Got the same message. Actually, those two directories didn't have spaces in the names, those were underscores and are often used instead of a space. The directory names beginning with an underscore are internal to FrontPage and it may not work well if you rename the folders. However, FrontPage was telling you *Exactly* what was wrong -- somehow you've created a folder named 'New Folder' inside the /images/ subdirectory -- see the message that FrontPage put out: Rename the source web's folder corresponding to "images/New Folder", > >I had several pages with spaces in their names. So I painstakingly went >through and deleted all of them, thinking maybe the message meant files as >well as folders ... Tried again and got the same message. Well, yes - although unix systems will allow files with spaces in the names, many browsers won't handle them correctly. And, I hope that you renamed the files within FrontPage and not just using the Windows Explorer. FrontPage may have a problem finding your files if you changed their names when he wasn't looking. Regards, Elsi