Problem viewing changes made on web site

[MikeM]

I am web hosting on a home computer running w2k. I have been using
FP2000 and Apache2. I can view my website from a remote computer (my
local city council library) but whenever I access my site from the
remote site I get the pages in the original setup and a couple of
changes made since then but all changes I make now are not showing up.
I tried removing the index.htm file from my computer but the remote
site still shows up the index page. I have switched off FP extensions
since I read that Apache can't handle them but still can't view
updated pages over the net. The changes show up ok in the preview with
IE.

How can I access the changes pages?

Thanks
Mike

 

[Nimrod K Funk]

i'm no expert...(far from it in fact!) but have you tried clearing your
cache before checking your site? deleting temporary internet files +
history in Tools>internet Options in IE. Works for me!

chj

 

[Terry Stockdale]

I am web hosting on a home computer running w2k. I have been using
FP2000 and Apache2. I can view my website from a remote computer (my
local city council library) but whenever I access my site from the
remote site I get the pages in the original setup and a couple of
changes made since then but all changes I make now are not showing up.
I tried removing the index.htm file from my computer but the remote
site still shows up the index page. I have switched off FP extensions
since I read that Apache can't handle them

What do you think is the number 1 server running FP Extensions?
Apache.

but still can't view
updated pages over the net. The changes show up ok in the preview with
IE.

How can I access the changes pages?

The library is probably using a caching proxy server (probably is for
filtering purposes) and isn't properly expiring your pages. Or, the
cache might be at their ISP.

You didn't indicate how long the "old" pages have been changed. If
you are talking hours, that's one thing. Weeks is an entirely
different issue. I would expect their proxy servers to be set to
something between 12 hours and 128 hours.

Try adding a meta tag to your web page to tell proxy servers not to
cache the pages.
<meta http-equiv="pragma" content="nocache">

By the way, I have a similar problem with Cox.net's servers when I'm
working on projects for a local non-profit. My "fix" is to delete the
pages that are changing (delete from the server) and then upload the
changed pages. I use FileZilla (http://filezilla.sourceforge.net) to
do FTP uploads. I don't like FrontPage's "publish" function.

 

[MikeM]

The old page was changed 1-2 days before my first try at accessing it
from the library. I have been trying to access the new pages every 1-3
days after making changes.

Because the library was closed yesterday it will be about 3 days since
my last attemps. I have now added the "dont cache" meta tag.

Thanks
Mike

 

[MikeM]

Problem solved. The file >Apache2>htdocs>index.html was not updating.
I copied the changed index file to the htdocs directory and it is
working ok now.

Thanks again
Mike