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Wordsmith2007
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March 23, 2017
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Help! I have two Dreamweaver websites on Google!

  • March 23, 2017
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Hello:

I am a long time user of Dreamweaver.  Recently, a problem occurred, which might have been my error.   Help! I don't know what's happening.  I appear to have two separate websites: One (the first one that appears when you enter geraldgibson.com and a second one, geraldgibson.com/html (after punching the first rectangle below and then selecting return to Writer's Den). If you study this situation, you would see my problem. There are two websites on Google (geraldgibson.com/ and geraldgibson.com/index.html). I haven't lost my website.  It's just buried beneath some corrupted html code.  I must have done something wrong, but I don't know what.  What has happened here? Please help me get back my opening web page!

Gerald Lee Gibson  (http://www.geraldgibson.com/)

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    Correct answer Jon Fritz

    I think I know what might be the problem.  When my Windows 10 crashed because of an upgrade, I had to recreate my file structure. Somehow I managed to have two separate local sites.  https://www.Users/Gerald Gibson/Documents/The Writings of Gerald Lee Gibson/images/html  and https://www.Users/Gerald Gibaon/Documents/The Writings of Gerald Lee Gibson/images/html.  I mispelled my last name in my haste to fix the problem.  The remote site's source code clearly shows the Gibson version, not the Gibaon version, which I have been working on.  Do I overwrite one, do I delete the current one, and use the outdated Gibson files?  Or can I simply make the change my DW site definition.  This latter solution sounds feasible.  What do you suggest?


    It sounds like you have a mess.

    Personally, I'd get my correct files into a correctly located folder, then update the Site Definition to point to the right place and delete the duplicate completely.

    But, unless you've been working in, and uploading from both locations, that's not likely to be the cause of your index.htm file continuing to show after you've deleted it.

    Like I mentioned above, if there is no index.htm file on your remote server, you're going to need to talk to your hosting company. It would mean the server is caching your files and then displaying them from the server cache even after they're deleted.

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    Wordsmith2007Author
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    March 27, 2017

    Hello:

    Me again.  I posted this message generically to the Support Group. I need a new Web Host.  Can you suggest a Web Host that can fix problems I'm having and one that won't cost me more than 8 or 9 dollars a month?

    Thank You, Gerald Lee Gibson

    Nancy OShea
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    Nancy OSheaCommunity Expert
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    March 27, 2017

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    Wordsmith2007Author
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    March 27, 2017

    Nancy:

    I'm glad you gave me this list.  I almost hooked up with Godaddy, but they wouldn't answer any questions until I signed up.  I guess there no good, if they're not on your list

    Gerald Gibson

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    Wordsmith2007Author
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    March 27, 2017

    Support Group:

    I need a new Web Host.  Can any of you suggest a Web Host that can fix problems I'm having and one that won't cost me more than 8 or 9 dollars a month?

    Thank you, Gerald Lee Gibson

    Nancy OShea
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    Nancy OSheaCommunity Expert
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    March 23, 2017

    You have a lot of junk MS Word code and errors in your documents, too.  You might want to clean this up.

    [Invalid] Markup Validation of http://geraldgibson.com/ - W3C Markup Validator

    I need to also mention that Linux/Apache servers are cAsE sEnSiTiVe.  Uppercase Index.html is not the same as lower case index.html.  You should stick with lower case file names to avoid more confusion.

    Nancy

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    Jon Fritz
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    Jon FritzCommunity Expert
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    March 23, 2017

    It looks to me that when you created your new site, rather than overwriting existing .htm pages, you created new .html pages.

    Links from some pages are going to the .html and others are going to .htm versions so you get the weird back and forth effect.

    There are a few ways to fix it.

    First, you could delete all of the pages from your server, then re-upload your current site. That's generally not going to be the best plan from a search engine optimization point of view, but if that's not an issue, it's the easiest fix.

    You could change the local file's names in DW to match your original file names. If you change the names from the Files window, DW will update the links. You can then upload them, overwriting the originals and delete the duplicates from the server.

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    Wordsmith2007Author
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    March 23, 2017

    Nancy:

    I will try to implement your suggestions, but you didn't address the main issue.  This is a google crawl situation.  I know this because I requested indexing.  Afterwards: One moment I had my current sight and then, after reloading it onto google with new changes from Dreamweaver, I got a corrupt page (the top part essentially the current version but the bottom version several years old from my first version).  How do I get rid of that page showing when I open my site on google. Did you enter the first rectangle (noted Kingdom of the Cats [a title I haven't used in ten years] and select Return to Writer's Den?  I know I have to follow your suggestions, but this is the heart of the issue.  In plain language, please explain to me how this happened and how I might remedy it.

    ---- Gerald Lee Gibson

    Nancy OShea
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    Nancy OSheaCommunity Expert
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    March 23, 2017

    Do you have more than one index page on your server?

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