Frusterated with trying to publish htm vs html??

[Guest]

So when I go to publish my web, a dialog box comes up and says: The file
index.html exists on the destination server but does not exist in the current
web. Would you like FP to remove it from <rootweb>
I checked on my folder view in my program files and the files show a HTML
extension. When I go to my server it reads as htm. I have activated my FP
extension. I'm going crazy trying to figure this darn thing out. Who would of
"thunk" when I got to publishing, it would be such a pain in the ...
Thanks for any info you savvy computer folks can give me! Pam

 

[Andrew Murray]

Your server *may* rename the file to *.htm rather than leave it as *.html.
The reason for it renaming the file is that your host may have set the
server to use a particular file name for the homepage e.g. "index.htm", not
"index.html".

All the message means is the file exists on the destination but not on the
local machine. Therefore you may need to rename the file on the local
machine to *.htm. As far as the functionality of the files there's no
difference between htm and html (htm only existed for the days before
Windows allowed long filenames, and was limited to the 8.3 filename format,
and where Unix only supported such filenames as well).

If you rename the file on the local machine then the problem should
disappear. There's a utility on www.jimcosoftware.com to rename many files
in one hit. If you wish, you can rename all the files as htm (FP does this
anyway if you don't manually save a file as *.html). but I believe the
'renaming' problem only occurs with the default home page filename as set by
the server/host.


Hope this helps.