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Duke Will
02-08-2005, 08:57 AM
This is driving me nuts. See this home page (http://www.dukewill.com) and it does not display as it should, it shows the actual text. I am on a Linux computer here, I don't know if something screwball is going on here. Anyway, upload and then try every renaming scheme I can think of to make it do right, nothing works. It should be index.html, simple as that. What the heck?
Fang
02-08-2005, 09:09 AM
It appears to have been uploaded as ascii and not binary
Duke Will
02-08-2005, 09:16 AM
I'm no expert but html pages should be uploaded that way, right? Images are uploaded as binary but not html pages. Anyone?
Fang
02-08-2005, 09:22 AM
All tags have been encoded so it renders as text. OpenOffice?
Duke Will
02-08-2005, 09:42 AM
Originally posted by Fang
All tags have been encoded so it renders as text. OpenOffice?

Ok, I see it has added some kind of odd code before tags. I'm having a helluva time. Converted to Linux months ago, still hit snags. I opened it in Xedit and saved, still screwed up. Man, I've wasted hours on something I've done a thousand times.
Fang
02-08-2005, 09:46 AM
Try copying it from the webpage into Xedit and uploading that document (not the original).
Duke Will
02-08-2005, 10:14 AM
I had already done that but I did it again and now it works. I dunno but it works. Thanks.

NOPE - WEIRD! I had created the new file as index_new.html. I uploaded. Viewed it. Fine. Changed name to index.html. PROBLEM. It went back to displaying the actual code when I visited http://www.dukewill.com not the marked up page.

NOTE: Okay, interesting, when I view the page by adding index.html to the URL, as in http://www.dukewill.com/index.html it WORKS. But if I access it just as http://www.dukewill.com it's screwed. ???
Fang
02-08-2005, 10:38 AM
Both links work correctly for me :confused:
Duke Will
02-08-2005, 10:49 AM
Originally posted by Fang
Both links work correctly for me :confused:

BIZARRE. I was using Opera (7.50) and the one without the index.html on the end does NOT work right. Then I viewed both pages in Firefox and all is well. Isn't that crazy? Crap like this drives me nuts. Sometimes I hate computers.
Fang
02-08-2005, 10:57 AM
On windows all works fine, even in Opera.
See if someone else with Linux has a problem.
Fang
02-08-2005, 01:15 PM
There is a problem with your DTD, replace it with:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">