Microsoft Publisher - hyperlinks and ftp problem

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hyperlinks and ftp problem

Dave Ant

2004-10-10, 11:16 pm

When I publish my website to the host using "publish to the web" ftp option,
the links are incorrectly reference within the page. For example:

a link that should be pointing to:

http://www.blah.org/events.html

actually points to:

ftp://www.blah.org/events.html

This doesn't work. I can correct this by editing all of the links with each
of my pages; however, this is very tedious. I would like to pass the upkeep
of the site to a less experienced user. Is there a way to solve this problem?

Also, the same thing happens when I "publish to the web" to my local drive
first and then ftp (using a different ftp program). The links within each
page point to my the path on my local drive. Again, I can go edit each link
with wordpad, but I'm sure that there is a much easier approach within
Publisher, but I can't find anything under help.

I have a feeling that this is the same problem that msweeks is having.

thanks in advance!

Dave

David Bartosik

2004-10-10, 11:16 pm

Always post your version of Publisher.

When you create your hyperlink do you type the URL yourself or do you use
the "link to page..." option?

When using the link to page yada yada yada procedure Publisher should (you
didn't state a version) code a relative URL, which to use your example would
mean - events.html - versus a "absolute" URL like your example shows.

It's been my experience to date that Publisher (2002, 2003) will only code a
absolute link to the local drive when the web publication has a Master Page
in use.

Please indicate if you are using a Master Page.

I strongly discourage the use of Master Page in a web publication.

In such a case removing the Master Page and placing the linked text on the
web page will resolve the incorrect coding of hyperlink URL's.

David Bartosik - [MSFT MVP]
www.publishermvps.com
www.davidbartosik.com

"Dave Ant" wrote:

> When I publish my website to the host using "publish to the web" ftp option,
> the links are incorrectly reference within the page. For example:
>
> a link that should be pointing to:
>
> http://www.blah.org/events.html
>
> actually points to:
>
> ftp://www.blah.org/events.html
>
> This doesn't work. I can correct this by editing all of the links with each
> of my pages; however, this is very tedious. I would like to pass the upkeep
> of the site to a less experienced user. Is there a way to solve this problem?
>
> Also, the same thing happens when I "publish to the web" to my local drive
> first and then ftp (using a different ftp program). The links within each
> page point to my the path on my local drive. Again, I can go edit each link
> with wordpad, but I'm sure that there is a much easier approach within
> Publisher, but I can't find anything under help.
>
> I have a feeling that this is the same problem that msweeks is having.
>
> thanks in advance!
>
> Dave

Dave Ant

2004-10-12, 7:15 pm

Thanks David,

To answer your questions:

1. I'm using Publisher 2003.

2. Yes, I type the URLs myself.

3. Yes, I'm using a Master page.

The problem is actually only with images (not text links to other existing
pages... these work fine) inserted into the webpage. Essentially, I need a
method in which to reference the future JPG file location at the host within
publisher so that I don't have to go edit each html file that contains JPG on
that page in order to point to the correct file location. Currently,
publisher points to the JPG on my hard disk (C:/blah/yadayada.jpg) or if I
use publisher's FTP option it points to ftp://www.blah.org/yadayada.jpg while
it should point to http://www.blah.org/yadayada.jpg

I'm sure that there is a simple solution, but I still haven't found it.

thanks,

Dave

"David Bartosik" wrote:
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> Always post your version of Publisher.
>
> When you create your hyperlink do you type the URL yourself or do you use
> the "link to page..." option?
>
> When using the link to page yada yada yada procedure Publisher should (you
> didn't state a version) code a relative URL, which to use your example would
> mean - events.html - versus a "absolute" URL like your example shows.
>
> It's been my experience to date that Publisher (2002, 2003) will only code a
> absolute link to the local drive when the web publication has a Master Page
> in use.
>
> Please indicate if you are using a Master Page.
>
> I strongly discourage the use of Master Page in a web publication.
>
> In such a case removing the Master Page and placing the linked text on the
> web page will resolve the incorrect coding of hyperlink URL's.
>
> David Bartosik - [MSFT MVP]
> www.publishermvps.com
> www.davidbartosik.com
>
>
> "Dave Ant" wrote:
>

David Bartosik [MSFT MVP]

2004-10-12, 7:15 pm

It is a simple solution.
Stop using Master Page.
That is not supported in a web publication.
Your very issue was confirmed during product beta tests.

--
David Bartosik - [MSFT MVP]
www.publishermvps.com
www.davidbartosik.com

"Dave Ant" <DaveAnt@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:323BE910-74E8-4506-86E2-88753943C919@microsoft.com...[color=darkred]
> Thanks David,
>
> To answer your questions:
>
> 1. I'm using Publisher 2003.
>
> 2. Yes, I type the URLs myself.
>
> 3. Yes, I'm using a Master page.
>
> The problem is actually only with images (not text links to other existing
> pages... these work fine) inserted into the webpage. Essentially, I need
> a
> method in which to reference the future JPG file location at the host
> within
> publisher so that I don't have to go edit each html file that contains JPG
> on
> that page in order to point to the correct file location. Currently,
> publisher points to the JPG on my hard disk (C:/blah/yadayada.jpg) or if I
> use publisher's FTP option it points to ftp://www.blah.org/yadayada.jpg
> while
> it should point to http://www.blah.org/yadayada.jpg
>
> I'm sure that there is a simple solution, but I still haven't found it.
>
> thanks,
>
> Dave
>
>
> "David Bartosik" wrote:
>