I had a flag popup telling me that I had two index files and recommending I remove one. Unfortunately I removed index.php before I read the excellent guidance advising what caused my initial problem, i.e., I added a Form for Contact. Too late, I removed the index.php, when I should have removed the index.html. Soooo, how do I correct my error? i.e., get the proper index.php in place and remove the index.html?
The good news is that I found and read your guidance independently. The bad news is that I didnāt find it until AFTER I had already deleted the .php file, when I should have deleted the .html file. So, now I have the wrong index. Iām not seeing where your guidance explains how I replace the .html file with a proper .php file? Thanks.
Re-read this post fully.
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- Go and delete the index.HTML file.
- Republish your page.
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Hi Adam. Thanks for sticking with me on this. I have done all of your suggestions to now, however, last thing I did was delete the index.html file and then republish after I had replaced my Contact page with a total new one, hoping that might help get things organized. Still no go. Now my hosting site has no index file. I had avoided deleting it, until you specifically said I should bc I interpreted your guidance to say I shouldnāt do that. I stand corrected, but now my site is more messed up than before. While my site wasnāt working properly, when I started this current effort, my immediate objective was to add a Contact page, which Iāve now done (2x), but now site totally incapacitated.
One thing Iāve found that may be causing me grief is on my Publishing Page, where Iām showing my website <DeltaChase.com>, but I may be missing the fact that it is a subdomain to my main domain: TBI-Innovations.com.
I recall in the past that I could attach something here, but I no longer see that. I have a screenshot of that Publishing Page that I thought I would send, but I no longer see that capability. Thanks, again, of sticking with me.
Did you delete the index.php file from the root of your site, or the contact folder? (Whatever youāve called it). It sounds like youāve deleted from the root, rather than the folder for the page with the form.
Assuming your publishing settings are OK (and Iām guessing thatās how the index.php got there in the first place), try to Republish All Files
Iād then check each and every folder for that site, and where you have BOTH .html AND .php index files, delete just the .html.
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Additionallyā¦
Obviously, I have no idea how your RW site is structured, but you should also check you havenāt fallen foul of the āgotchasā in points 3 and 4 in my pinned post, referenced aboveā¦
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Iām happy to report that with a bit of help from the support team at Chillidog, Iāve corrected my structural problems, which now allows my site to show up properly. I have two problems Iām hoping you can provide necessary guidanceā¦
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I added a new page for Contact. It works from Home but not from the other pages in the NavBar. Seems like Iām missing something simple. Your thoughts?
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When I upload the site to my Chilldog server and then click on Visit, I go to NeilKosterman.com instead of DeltaChase.com. For background I prototyped this site in my neilkosterman.com URL, before uploading to its proper URL.
Thanks for any insight or guidance you may have for me.
- Is your NavBar in a Partial? (That way one update changes it on each page that it appears). Could be your link is ārelativeā rather than āabsoluteā, although you should be using RWās page navigation dropdown in the Link dialog. TBH, it could be any number of things, and without someone looking at your project file, itās impossible to be 100% certain what it is.
(I should add at this point that I donāt load up other peopleās project files, so someone else would need to take a look).
- You need to make sure your site is correctly set up both in your Publishing Settings AND in Settings, General in the left-hand pane:
The first one tells RW how to publish your project, the second one tells it where to Visit, once published - I suspect thatās where youāve still got neilkosterman.com referenced.
I remember reading about āPartials,ā when I started, but Iāve not used it. Iāll re-review to see if applicable. Thanks for this guidance.
I had not changing the Settings, General. I have now, and you were spot on. Thanks, again, for great guidance.
Youāre definitely going to want a Partial for the NavBar, otherwise youāll need to configure it for each page of your site.
Partials are also a great way to make sure your site style is consistent across pages, too.
Itāll save you a ton of time.
So, as indicated, I was finally able to dedicate myself to re-reviewed the videos and docs in an effort learn about how to make a āPartial.ā Iāve watched the first five again from start to finish, but Iāve not yet found any instructions for Partials. Iāve also done a search, and the attached comes up, suggesting that I should find Partials in the Control Center docs, but no luck there either.
I wonder if you could point me in the direction enabling my learning about how to create and manage partials.
Thanks.
Partials are a part of Stacks, not Foundry. Visit the Stacks site for documentation and videos on using Partials.
Noted. Thanks for this guidance.