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Trouble Saving and Uploading in HTML (5 posts)


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  1. hklass
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago

    I'm a very long time user and have been having trouble for at least six months in saving my files in html. Perhaps I'm ignorant and a bin file is the same thing but in any event when I upload them to my web site they won't open. When I type the url in I just get the code so the pages are being transferred. I have tried everything I can think of to make them save in html but no luck. I can add to earlier html files because they are already html.

    My domain and web site are currently just a repository for my old pages. Need to be able to use it because I've had to resort to Google Documents to present my lessons in a tutorial writing course I'm taking.

  2. Mark
    Administrator
    Posted 2 years ago

    I don't think you're doing anything wrong; this actually sounds like a web server misconfiguration. If the web server is sending HTML files as text documents instead of HTML pages, then you'll see code instead of a properly formatted website.

    Try contacting your web host and alert them to the issue. If you're configuring your own web server, then you'll have to adjust the "MIME types" to serve HTML as "text/html," but chances are that someone else that manages your web server can do this for you.

    I hope this helps; best of luck!

  3. hklass
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago

    No, that isn't it. When I go to WS-FTP to transfer the file it shows as a bin file in both windows. In other words the file I'm sending is in bin and it's what I get from Aranea when I save as a html file. Wish I could show you a screenshot so you could see what I mean.

    I've gone back and checked pages I've made in Aranea before this problem and they are htm or html files. I always scroll down and select htm and don't know what else I can do. They end up as, I guess it's bin. I just went back again and tried it but the same result. Do you think I should reinstall Aranea? I recently had my motherboard die and installed it after that but this problem has been going on for a long time before that so I don't think that would help.

    Do you have any other ideas?

    Holly

  4. Mark
    Administrator
    Posted 2 years ago

    With HTML files, it doesn't matter how they're transferred via ftp (bin versus text transfer modes, for example). This really, really sounds like a server problem, and I think it's worth looking into it as such.

    Could you provide the website address where the pages aren't displaying as expected? This would make it easier for me to investigate.

  5. hklass
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago

    My address is http://www.hollyscloset.com and the page(s) I'm trying to access are at http://www.hollyscloset.com/winnistutoriallessons/index.bin or at least that's the file that is going there. If you could send me an email address (to hklass@gmail.com) where I could send you some screen shots I will show you how Araneae is saving the html files in .bin. That's why I don't think it's my server. I've already checked WSFTP and they site the server too. The files appear at the server but not as html. I was thinking of trying to upload the file in html to another folder that's working. I tried just now and it saves as a .bin file.

    I just tried to access the bin file in winnis by typing in the url and it isn't working today.

    Holly


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