PUBLISHING - Seems to publish but it doesn't - FTP

[WilliamBisset]

Hello,

I have upgraded from XsitePro to Xara Web 11

I enter the same details for publishing as I did in Xsitepro in to Xara (attached image) - It goes through the process of publishing, and you would think it has done it - no errors.

Anyone know whats wrong?

Thank you for your help
William

[Boy]

Have you removed the old XsitePro site from the server before publishing the new XWD site?

[gwpriester]

By default, Xara adds .htm to your site pages. So your index page is index.htm.

If the browser sees in index.htm and an index.html file, the browser will load the index.html file. .html takes precedence over .htm.

When you publish your site, add html to the file name index and all your pages will publish as .html

But, as Boy points out, best to back up your current site and then delete it.

[Cloud]

I am always curious as to why xara creates sites with the .htm extension as opposed to the .html, there is no technical reason other than the very old one that in DOS and Windows 3.x filename extentions were limited to 3 letters but this has not applied for a very long time so why still do it, as gary points out above the .html extension takes precedence so why still do it.

[gwpriester]

Your guess is as good as mine.

[Acorn]

Try the same to a sub-folder and check that publishes properly.
If it does then purge the old site and republish to there.

You might also have server caching so check with your ISP.

Acorn

[gwpriester]

First thing to try also is press F5 and/or Ctrl F5 (function key).

[Egg Bramhill]

I would suspect the sub folder name is incorrect if the file appears to be uploading but not viewable on your site.

Different web hosts have different sub folders in the root directory which serve up the website. Commonly this might be "public_html" or "www_docs" or similar. Contact your hosting company and ask them the name of the default sub folder (or try my examples above or use filezilla to view the sub folders on your site)

You can also click on the "Explore Web Space" button to check if a sub folder in fact exists, which in your case I think it does, but isn't the default path to the domains root folder.

By the way, welcome

[WilliamBisset]

ITS ALIVE!!!...

I delete old website first

Thank you everyone, much appreciated

the site is only 10% complete but you're welcome to look www.onlynewzealand.com

thanks
William

[Egg Bramhill]

Glad you sorted it William