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mojos -> index.html vs index.htm (10/18/2004 21:17:23)

I recently changed hosting server for our site. When I published the site on the new server I had the following appear at the bottom of the publishing log:

Copied home page from "index.htm" to "index.html".

Then on the next publishing I got:

Copied home page from "index.htm" to "index.html".
Merged navigation structure.


Why is Frontpage creating an index.html on the new server? All manner of problems a caused by it doing so - conflicts etc.



bobby -> RE: index.html vs index.htm (10/18/2004 23:05:27)

I doubt that it's Frontpage... likely a server setting.

Are you able to change it at all with the site open live on the server?

Frontpage uses the .htm file extension by default.




Giomanach -> RE: index.html vs index.htm (10/19/2004 3:17:32)

Or..open the site live and recalculate links..[;)]



mojos -> RE: index.html vs index.htm (10/19/2004 19:49:53)

Thanks for the advice. I actually resolved the problem a different way - I discover that the hosting server is configured to make index.html the default home page. Frontpage detected that at pblishing time and created a copy of the local index.htm which it published as index.html

As a fix, I renamed index.htm on my local machine to index.html - set that as the home page and recalculated the hyperlinks and finally published. It seems to have solved most of the problems I reported, but I am getting a lot of false "unmatched " files on the server, if I try to manually copy those files from the local machine to the remote in FP, they report as being matched, but then if I refresh the remote list - they are unmatched once again.



BobbyDouglas -> RE: index.html vs index.htm (10/19/2004 19:53:42)

That was stored in the .htaccess, correct?



Larry M. -> RE: index.html vs index.htm (10/19/2004 21:53:57)

quote:

I am getting a lot of false "unmatched " files on the server, if I try to manually copy those files from the local machine to the remote in FP, they report as being matched, but then if I refresh the remote list - they are unmatched once again



mojos,

A peculiarity of UNIX servers - same files on a Windows server show unchanged after successful publishing/synchronizing. Learn to disregard.




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