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chevygrl

2004-04-05, 4:33 am

Hi there,
I'm a student taking Dreamweaver fro the first time. I built my site
originally through netsol (before the class) using their premade templates.
Now that I'm learning Dreamweaver, I'm trying to build my own site. Some of my
old pages are appearing high in the search engines and I want to try to
recreate the links. www.mysite.com/pages/2. Everything I've tried in
Dreamweaver won't let me do this. It says it doesn't like the /. My teacher
is drawing a blank. Does anyone have an idea as to what I should do?
Thanks.

chevygrl

2004-04-05, 4:33 am

Hi,
I forgot to say that I spoke to netsol and they said they can't redirect my pages without messing up my new site. It's now being hosted by ipowerweb. :-)
Thanks.
Osgood

2004-04-05, 4:33 am

chevygrl wrote:

> Hi there,
> I'm a student taking Dreamweaver fro the first time. I built my site
> originally through netsol (before the class) using their premade templates.
> Now that I'm learning Dreamweaver, I'm trying to build my own site. Some of my
> old pages are appearing high in the search engines and I want to try to
> recreate the links. www.mysite.com/pages/2. Everything I've tried in
> Dreamweaver won't let me do this. It says it doesn't like the /. My teacher
> is drawing a blank. Does anyone have an idea as to what I should do?
> Thanks.
>

What do you mean when you say 'its says it doesnt like the /."? What
message are you getting, what is happening?

Have you defined a new site and created folders within the site named
pages and 2?

Any more details its a bit vague at the moment.

darrel

2004-04-05, 10:36 pm

> I'm a student taking Dreamweaver fro the first time. I built my site
> originally through netsol


The first thing to learn about the web as a web professional is to STAY FAR
FAR FAR AWAY FROM ANYTHING RELATED TO NETSOL.

Trust me on that one.

;o)

-Darrel


chevygrl

2004-04-06, 4:32 am

Sorry, I'm still trying to figure this out.
When I try to save the file (by going to file, save as) with the name
"pages/3" Dreamweaver responds with:
pages/3.html
The above file name is invalid.
I don't know any other way to get the final link:
Http://www.mysite.com/pages/3
I hope this helps.
Thank you.

Mad Dog

2004-04-06, 4:32 am

You can't put a backslash in a file name. To create that you'd name the
page: 3.html and put it in a directory named "pages."

MD


> The above file name is invalid.
> I don't know any other way to get the final link:
> Http://www.mysite.com/pages/3
> I hope this helps.
> Thank you.



steveo23

2004-04-06, 4:32 am

It has to be .htm or html so it know / your computer knows what kind of file it
is. when it is on the the web it usually is something.com/home.html and so on.
I think I answerd your question if not respond..

Alan

2004-04-06, 4:33 am

the error message is exactly correct
You can't use the / slash in a file or folder name.


If you want the final link to be exactly:
Http://www.mysite.com/pages/3

then do this:
Create a New folder, named :
pages

Inside that, create a new folder, named:
3

inside that, Save your FILE, with the filename of:
index.html (or whatever default filename your hosting uses)

When people go to the url:
Http://www.mysite.com/pages/3

they will be seeing
Http://www.mysite.com/pages/3/index.html

/ the slash character is what is used to denote directories in urls. You
can not use it in the name of a file or a folder.

for instance, a url of
http://mysite.com/fred/ethel/lucy/ricky/page.html

each of those is a subfolder, nested inside of the one above it.
mysite.com
fred <--folder
ethel <--folder
lucy <--folder
ricky <--folder
page.html <-- file

> Sorry, I'm still trying to figure this out.
> When I try to save the file (by going to file, save as) with the name
> "pages/3" Dreamweaver responds with:
> pages/3.html
> The above file name is invalid.
> I don't know any other way to get the final link:
> Http://www.mysite.com/pages/3
> I hope this helps.
> Thank you.
>


Gary White

2004-04-06, 4:33 am

On Mon, 05 Apr 2004 23:05:06 -0400, Alan
<dont_mail_me_period@macromedia.com> wrote:

>If you want the final link to be exactly:
>Http://www.mysite.com/pages/3
>
>then do this:
>Create a New folder, named :
>pages
>
>Inside that, create a new folder, named:
>3
>
>inside that, Save your FILE, with the filename of:
>index.html (or whatever default filename your hosting uses)



That's probably the easiest. Another way to do that would be with
mod_rewrite, if it's on an Apache server.


Gary
chevygrl

2004-04-06, 4:34 am

Thanks so much for the suggestion. I'll give it a shot!
Gary White

2004-04-06, 5:39 pm

On Tue, 6 Apr 2004 06:10:53 +0000 (UTC), "chevygrl"
<webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote:

>Thanks so much for the suggestion. I'll give it a shot!



You're welcome.


Gary
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