Publishing split up website...

[AutoEvo]

Hi All,

In creating my company's website, it has too many pages for my pc to cope with. So, I've had to effectively split up the website into 3 components
1 - base pages + repairs
2 - ecu remaps A-L
3 - ecu remaps M-Z

My question is: now that parts 2 and 3 are developed, how do I publish them to my host [UKhost4U] and effectively stictch them together with part 1 that's already published?

thank you!
Autoevo

[zaphodeist]

Here is an example of how it can be achieved

[gwpriester]

Or check out Managing Large Websites which addresses your question.

[AutoEvo]

Hi there,

thanks for the above but, I must be doing something wrong as it's not working for me... so if you could help me further I would be grateful!

Background:
1 - my root directory is public_html
2 - I created a new subdirectory within public_html called 'ecu_remaps_a-l'. All files relating to ECU remaps for brands and models that fall within this category have been uploaded to this folder.
3 - what I understand from the links above is that the navigation button link should therefore read my domain/subfolder. So I've set the link for the relevant navigation button as: http://www.auto-evolution.co.uk/ecu_remaps_a-l as you can see here: http://www.auto-evolution.co.uk/www....ecu_remaps_a-l

However, what the above leads to is a HTTP: 404 Not Found error message.

So what is going wrong??

One thing to note is that when I publis from Xara to my host... all files need to be uploaded to the subfolder 'public_html' But I don't know how I would put this into the navigation bar's link as 'public_html' doesn't show in any of the webpages when they're uploaded.

I hope the above makes sense?!

thank you!
AutoEvo

[AutoEvo]

OK... through trial and error I've managed to figure my problem out. So I'll put the answer to my question here in case anyone else has difficulty in this department.
In my particular case, publishing a split up website only worked if I did NOT put my domain name in front of the new pages. It worked when I put the name of the subfolder in followed by the page name.

As an example... instead of putting the destination link for the page as: 'www.auto-evolution.co.uk/ecu_remapping_cambridge/car_brands_a-l.htm'
I simply put: 'ecu_remapping_cambridge/car_brands_a-l.htm'

Whether or not the above worked differently due to my host server being linux or not, I have no idea! But it worked.

I hope this helps others.

regards,
AutoEvo

[ShapeShifter]

Relative and absolute should both work fine. The greater majority of web host servers are Linux based.
What you need to check when you are using an absolute URL (EG: www.auto-evolution.co.uk/ecu_remapping_cambridge/car_brands_a-l.htm ) is that you check 'correct automatically' in the link entry page. If you don't, then the URL address will be wrong in the source because the http:// will be missing and the browser then parse it as:
http://www.auto-evolution.co.uk/www.auto-evolution.co.uk/ecu_remapping_cambridge/car_brands_a-l.htm
Placing a tick in that 'correct automatically' box will ensure that http:// is added and the browser sees:
http://www.auto-evolution.co.uk/ecu_remapping_cambridge/car_brands_a-l.htm