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Dr. Gary - 29 Apr 2004 06:18 GMT

Hi. I just resubscribed to this forum.
I just upgraded from Pub 2K to 2003. I was having no problems publishing my
website to the web using CuteFTP prior to the upgrade. Now, it's a
disaster. There seems to be a lot of changes in the manner of saving as a
webpage.
Is there information on your website, David, about website publishing with
2003. If so, a URL please. Otherwise, anyone have any words of wisdom?
Here's what happens:
The website has 118 pages (I know, way too big). I set under "web page
options"|"options"| and tick "organize supporting files in a folder" and
"enable incremental publish to the web"|"OK". I name page one "index" per
my hosts instructions.

I click on File|Publish to the Web| which publishes the website to two files
"Kirsten_files" and "Kirsten.html". There is no "index" page anywhere,
despite my naming page one "index." The file name is Kirsten, saved as web
page, filtered.
I then go to CuteFTP and access the site, removing the old files and then
uploading the two files into the www folder on the site. However, now I
can't find the "index" file. And, the pages and graphics are all numbered
strangely rather than how they were in 2000. They are numbered with four an
five digit numbers. When I go to the website after uploading, all the
graphics are missing and I can only access the first page. None of the
directory links work.
OK, so what am I doing wrong???
Gary

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David Bartosik - MS MVP - 30 Apr 2004 03:27 GMT

> Hi. I just resubscribed to this forum.
> I just upgraded from Pub 2K to 2003. I was having no problems publishing my
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> "enable incremental publish to the web"|"OK". I name page one "index" per
> my hosts instructions.

refer to my response to Brandi's post today.

> I click on File|Publish to the Web| which publishes the website to two files
> "Kirsten_files" and "Kirsten.html". There is no "index" page anywhere,
> despite my naming page one "index." The file name is Kirsten, saved as web
> page, filtered.

you answered your issue in your last sentence.
you name the file kirsten then that's what you get.

the publish to web file name defaults to index.htm for a reason.
if you over-ride that it will over-ride the page name option.

you can save the pub file as kirsten.pub but the publish save has to be
index.

> I then go to CuteFTP and access the site, removing the old files and then
> uploading the two files into the www folder on the site. However, now I
> can't find the "index" file.

kirsten_files is not a file, it's a folder and that folder contains
everything except the home page. which in your case is the file kirsten.htm
If you upload with Publisher and not a 3rd party tool you'll be sure to have
a files needed.
refer to http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=324

And, the pages and graphics are all numbered

> strangely rather than how they were in 2000. They are numbered with four an
> five digit numbers. When I go to the website after uploading, all the
> graphics are missing and I can only access the first page. None of the
> directory links work.

you failed to upload the files in the sub-folder, refer to everything I said
above.

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