HELP!
I uploaded my files, and my page still doesn't show up. What did I do wrong?
Actually, you probably didn't do anything wrong. If you can see your files are in your 'public_html' folder, then all you have to do to access them is type in your website address followed by the name of one of your files. If you do not have one of the files on the list below you will get an error when you type in http://studentweb.tulane.ede/~my_email_ID because the server looks for one of the files on the list. Its starts with 'index.html' and works its way down. If is does not find a file by any of these names the error screen comes up in your web browser. It may say 'file not found' or 'access denied' , either way you just need one of the files on the list in your 'public_html' folder or the exact name of a file in the http://studentweb.tulane.edu/~your_email_id/ address after the '/' that follows your email id.
Lets say your name is John Jacob Jingelhimer-Smith, so your username is 'JJingel'.
Anyways, so you go to your website: http://studentweb.tulane.edu/~jjingle and you get the error page, 'file not found' or 'access denied'. You know that your files are in the 'public_html' directory. The problem is that the Studentweb server looks for a certain type of file to display from within your 'public_html' directory. If it finds that file, it shows it, otherwise, it throws an error page. The server right after setup is showing the file 'index.html' which was put there automatically when you created your account for the first time. So here is a list of files the server tries to show, in this order:
- index.html
- Index.html
- index.htm
- index.php
- index.php3
- index.php4
- index.shtml
- index.shtm
Notice how one of your files is listed there, 'index.html'. This is the file the server is showing when you go to your homepage, http://studentweb.tulane.edu/~jjingle. If you don't have an index.html file, then the server will show the error page.
Ok, Great. I know what's wrong: So how do I fix it?
Easy, you can type in the name of any file in your 'public_html' folder after your account name.
For example, the file 'page1.html' will be at: http://studentweb.tulane.edu/~jjingle/page1.html.
Got it? Good.
Now to have your own file show up, just create your own file named 'index.html', and upload it onto the server, overwriting the existing 'index.html' file.
WAIT! I tried that, but it still doesn't show up!
There are some other intricacies of the server you will need to know about. On a linux server, such as Studentweb, the two words 'Smurf' and 'smurf' are as different as 'cat' and 'dog'. Notice the capitalized S in the first 'Smurf'. So here's what you might be doing:
You might be going to http://studentweb.tulane.edu/~jjingle/smurf.gif attempting to access the file 'Smuf.gif'. The server is looking for a file named 'smurf.gif', and in our list of files above, there is none, so it tells you the file is not found. There is a different in the capitalized letter S, so you must go to: http://studentweb.tulane.edu/~jjingle/Smurf.gif.
Capitalization isn't my issue, what else should I know?
If you code your sites by hand, you will need to watch out for spaces in your file names. We reccomment you use Dreamweaver or Adobe Contribute.
So your code snip is as follows: img src=picture 1.gif width=100 height=100
The picture on your page is showing up as a broken link, and you want to know why. Your english professor may have told you that you need to quote people in your papers, now I'm going to tell you to quote in all your pages. (Yeah, that was lamer than the first bad joke. Sorry.)
So the correct code would be: img src="picture 1.gif" width="100" height="100"
Of course you need your left and right carrot's added in.
It's not spacing nor Capitalization, and it still doesn't work.
Make sure that your files are in your 'public_html' folder, and not in a subfolder. If they are in a subfolder called 'webpage', then you can access them at: http://studentweb.tulane.edu/~jjingle/webpage/. But beware, capitalization and spacing applies to folders as well.
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