Problem publishing my pages (please help)

[Yeshuati]

I am creating webpages with Netscape 7.0 Composer and I save the index.htm in a seperate folder on my machine before transferring it to Abyss Server.

I have my main webpage in the "htdocs" folder and any other web pages I create I create a sub folder to put them in to be viewed at http://"mydomain"/"subdirectory"

But I think I am missing something because when I go to view the site from another machine my images are not showing up.

I have tried to use the publisher in Netscape to publish to the server and I even emphasize the correct ftp://"htdoc"/subdirectory and it fails everytime saying "could not access the server" . I only tried this as a last resort because it works well with my remote hosting account (I guess it don't work if the server is your own machine!)

If anyone has any tips as to why this is, Im all ears

But the main question still stands: why dont my images show-up on remote locations other than my home machine?

Can anyone help?
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[vbgunz]

There are four link styles

1. Absolute
1a. http://www.absolute.com
1b. http://www.absolute.com/candy.html

2. Relative
2a. ../ Goes into the parent directory
2b. /Starts at the root of your site
2c. no slash but a link name like sweeter.htm means the document is currently located within the same directory...

Lets start with "../"
1. http://www.absolute.com/levelone/leveltwo/sweet.html

If you're already in level three working on the document sweet.html and you wish to link to a document located in levelone you will need two "../" to back up two directories...

i.e. "../../" and you will need the document name otherwise you would probably see the index page by default...

So lets say you have two documents in levelone... 1. candy and 2. sweeter and you wish to link to them from within levelthree... your links should like this...

1. ../../candy.html
2. ../../sweeter.html

"../" goes back one directory, just remember that and you call use as many as you need to go where you got to go

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Now using the forward slash is simple... It simply tells the link you click on to start within your sites root drectory.

You can call your site root from any directory and or any page using the absloute link "http://www.absolute.com" or you can use the slash "/".

The benefit in using the slash is "mobility" you can if you use all relative links pass your site out on floppies or on CDs but imagine if you didn't use relative links for a second...

When someone uses your site they would have to remain connected to the internet in order to browse it but what if they had no internet connection and then wanted to go back to your homepage from any other page on your site while they were offline?

"http://www.absolute.com" wouldn't work for them the way "/index.html" would...

Relative links are your friends big time when it comes to designing your site

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Now you will also see links like "sweeter.html" and "candy.html" and "sweet.html" but niether of them have a "/" or a "../" so what does that mean?

It means the document is within the same directory so theirs no need to go back one directory "../" or any need to start at the root "/" to go looking for it.

So if you were linking from "candy.html" to "sweeter.html", since their both located in the same directory you can simply make the link "sweeter.html"

I hope that helps

[vbgunz]

This helps some what, but could you be a little more specific as to why my images don't Show up when I have created the Html doc in my composer and having saved it and then putting it into it's own folder in the "htdocs" I have not been able to get the built-in publisher to publish the file to my domain hosted on my pc using the Abyss server. IT works fine when I publish to my remote hosting account.

Thank you for the tips but since I am so new to this stuff I get lost very easy! I did'nt even know that "../" was something that I could use.

I just thought that "/" was the way to reach a certain directory within the "htdocs" folder

I will read over this info till it comes clear in my mind
and anymore info will be helpful

Thx again

[Guest]

did u save ur images in the same directory as ur webpage, and if so , th html file u created which contains those images, are they linked properly?

[Guest]

*linked properly back to the source

ex; u put pic 1 in ur webpage, now is pic 1 in the htdocs folder? and when u inserted pic1 , was it inserted from the htdocs folder?

[Guest2]

*linked properly back to the source

ex; u put pic 1 in ur webpage, now is pic 1 in the htdocs folder? and when u inserted pic1 , was it inserted from the htdocs folder?

[vbgunz]

I don't know who made the second post in my name but it wasn't me... BTW, Yeshuati did you find out the answer? We would sure like to know if this case is closed :)

If it isn't do us a favor and right click the broken image and copy its URL (link) to the clip board, then paste it in a reply along with everything you tried and your current OS setup if possible ;)
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