LinkSky FAQ

Web site - Uploading.

I have uploaded my web site. My pages do not display when going to mydomain.com. Is there a delay period before they will display?

As soon as your pages are uploaded they will be available on the world wide web.

Here are the most common reasons why an uploaded web site does not display:

1 -- The pages were not uploaded to the proper directory.

Solution - Make sure you have uploaded your pages to your /public_html directory (or to your /www directory (both go to the same directory).

2 -- You have uploaded your pages to the proper directory, but your main/default home page is not named properly.

Solution - Make sure your home page is named index.html, index.htm, index.php (if it is a php based page), default.html or default.htm. This naming convention allows browser to "find" this page automatically when pointed to your main URL/web address, or to a directory in which a default/index page resides.

NOTE: Page names are "case-sensitive." The name of your home page must be all lower case (no CAPS). In other words, index.html is correct. Index.html or INDEX.HTML will NOT display automatically.

3 -- You have named your home page correctly, and uploaded your pages to the proper directory, but your browser's page cache is displaying the old (placeholder) page that has been stored to your local hard drive instead of the server.

Solution - (Note from a LinkSky web admin): A browser cache is there to help speed page displays, but it is the bane of the web developer who is trying to upload and test new web data. In short, when the placeholder page seemed to re-appear, it was being called from a temporary page cache that resides on your hard drive.

We do a lot of web development here. The first thing I always do before working with a new browser is to turn off the page caching. If I don't do this, things get highly confusing real fast. In the particular brand of browser I work with, I turn off the page caching by going to the EDIT menu, then PREFERENCES, then ADVANCED (in the prefs window) Then in the middle "Cache" box, for the option "Update pages" I select ALWAYS. Then click OK.

This will not guarantee a fresh load all the time when it comes to the graphics, but it will get me the newest pages from the server as opposed from my local hard drive cache. In order to get fresh graphics in Internet Explorer you have to do an undocumented "Super Re-Load" which is to hold down the CTRL key, then select REFRESH in the VIEW menu.

Last update: 2010-05-15 11:48
Author: LinkSky Support
Revision: 1.1

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