FTP vs HTTP

[Guest]

I am working on my first ever website, and am a total and very dumb beginner
- I'm trying to muddle through as best as I can, but I am stumped.

I made my site on FrontPage, and installed the FrontPage extensions that
came with my host package and published. For the first day or two, everything
was great. My address read as "http://www.mydomain.com" and all my pages as
"http://www.mydomain.com/whatever".

But then a couple days later, something changed. The main page is still the
same, but the other pages now read as "ftp://hostnumber/whatever". I very
very vaguely understand the difference between http and ftp, but two
questions:

1. What could have happened to change it?
2. How do I change it back?

 

[David Berry]

Check the links on your pages and make sure they don't have FTP in them. Is
there a URL where we can see what's happening?

 

[Guest]

You're right, I don't get why or how but they do - http://www.statbabies.com
I am more confused than ever now. What do I do next?

Thank you so much for your help!

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

Your links are correct at
http://www.statbabies.com/home.htm
but not at
http://www.statbabies.com/index.htm
The page there was saved from the web w/ the bad links hard coded in it
(<!-- saved from url=(0059)ftp://statbabi[email protected]/public_html/index.htm -->)

Your host uses index.htm as the default home page
- you can't arbitrarily use another file name for the home page

In your FP web/site delete index.htm and rename home.htm as index.htm
Then right click index.htm and select Set as Home page, and republish to
http://www.statbabies.com/


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"Warning - Using the F1 Key will not break anything!" (-;
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| You're right, I don't get why or how but they do - http://www.statbabies.com
| I am more confused than ever now. What do I do next?
|
| Thank you so much for your help!
|
|
| "David Berry" wrote:
|
| > Check the links on your pages and make sure they don't have FTP in them. Is
| > there a URL where we can see what's happening?
| >
| > --
| > David Berry
| > FrontPage Support: http://www.frontpagemvps.com/
| >
| >
| >
| > | > >I am working on my first ever website, and am a total and very dumb
| > >beginner
| > > - I'm trying to muddle through as best as I can, but I am stumped.
| > >
| > > I made my site on FrontPage, and installed the FrontPage extensions that
| > > came with my host package and published. For the first day or two,
| > > everything
| > > was great. My address read as "http://www.mydomain.com" and all my pages
| > > as
| > > "http://www.mydomain.com/whatever".
| > >
| > > But then a couple days later, something changed. The main page is still
| > > the
| > > same, but the other pages now read as "ftp://hostnumber/whatever". I very
| > > very vaguely understand the difference between http and ftp, but two
| > > questions:
| > >
| > > 1. What could have happened to change it?
| > > 2. How do I change it back?
| >
| >

 

[Guest]

Oh for heaven's sake! I am so dumb. I have no idea how I did that. Thank
you so, so much - worked perfectly.