Resolve links during development

[George W. Barrowcliff]

FP2K
I build a site using the service providers tools. The site has outgrown the
capabilites of the providers tools, so I downloaded the site to my hard
drive and imported it into Win2K.

I noticed that none of the subdirectories were populated. Yet the site
displayed OK in FP. In looking at the code, I see the images are all coming
from the image directory on the service providers site.

I see that there is a <BASE HREF pointing at the base address on the service
providers site.

I copied all the subdir contents to the myweb development area, but how is
this normally managed?

Doing the development on my hard disk, then publishing the content to the
web. How does the location of the image get resolved depending on where the
page gets loaded from?

Thanks

 

[Rob Giordano \(Crash\)]

If your server has FP extensions installed and working, you should Publish
it to your harddrive that will get you everything intact. Importing only
gets what the browser needs to display that page.

When you are working with your web opened in FP on your local harddrive
locations will be managed by FP when you Publish to the server.


| FP2K
| I build a site using the service providers tools. The site has outgrown
the
| capabilites of the providers tools, so I downloaded the site to my hard
| drive and imported it into Win2K.
|
| I noticed that none of the subdirectories were populated. Yet the site
| displayed OK in FP. In looking at the code, I see the images are all
coming
| from the image directory on the service providers site.
|
| I see that there is a <BASE HREF pointing at the base address on the
service
| providers site.
|
| I copied all the subdir contents to the myweb development area, but how is
| this normally managed?
|
| Doing the development on my hard disk, then publishing the content to the
| web. How does the location of the image get resolved depending on where
the
| page gets loaded from?
|
| Thanks
|
|

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

You would need to remove all BASE HREF tags from your pages, and then re-insert or correct all links
to image, etc. in your page.

Then make sure that you always open a web / site first, and that all content is either created in or
import into prior to using.

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[Ronx]

In addition to other comments, do not use Import. to get the web files. Use
an FTP program to download the files and folders, that way you can be
certain to get everything. Since you used the hosts facilities to build the
site, it is unlikely you have FP extensions running, but if they are
available - install them (ask your host), then use the FrontPAge publish
commands to move files between Local (your hard disc) and the live site.