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Pat Fleming
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May 12, 2020
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Dw Templates Linking not working

  • May 12, 2020
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Hi all,

 

I hope ye can help, I help run a website and I have built a dreamweaver template to create pages from. All these pages work 100% localy when I test them (open in brwoser) but when I Put them to the remote server these links break e.g.

xyz.com/page/contact.html = correct address

But when I visit the page online it give me a 404 & the address is:

xyz.com/pages/pages/contact.html

 

Other pages not created from the template work 100%

Hope ye can help,

Pat

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    Correct answer Nancy OShea

    Hi Nancy,

    Thanks again. It's late here so I'll post the dwt  tomorrow. 
    If you visit this page (created from a template):

    http://www.athlonetrainingcentre.ie/pages/apprenticeship.html

     and from it visit the for example the Wellbeing or Links page (also  both from template you should  see the issue. If you visit either Wellbeing or Links pages from Home or About the links works perfect (neither from a template).

    I've tried re-created the links many times in Design (3 ways) & Code View (2 way). In live view I struggle to re-do the responsive hamburger menu but redid the normal navigation 3 ways as well. 
    Honestly can't figure the google map thing & too busy to spend time figuring out what's wrong  

    Again thank you sooo much. 
    Stay safe. 
    Pat

     


    OK.  Looks to me like you've added pages to the path but the parent page is already inside the pages folder which throws a 404 error when you click on FAQ.

     

    <div class="responsive_menu">
<ul class="main_menu">
<li><a href="../index.html">Home</a></li>
 <li><a href="about.html">About</a>
<ul class="sub-menu">
    <li><a href="about.html">About Us</a></li>
<li><a href="apprenticeship.html">Apprenticeship</a></li>
<li><a href="facilities.html">Facilities</a></li>
 <li><a href="testimonialss.html">Testimonials </a></li>
 <li><a href="http://ec.europa.eu/avservices/video/player.cfm?ref=I071595&videolang=en&sitelang=en" target="_blank">Funding</a></li>
 <li><a href="pages/faq1.html">FAQ</a></li></ul>
    <li><a href="faq1.html">FAQ</a></li></ul>

     

    Your site structure is rather complicated.  Some files are at root level while others are inside folders.  The link path will change depending on where you saved the child page -- site root level or inside  pages/.  You will need to be on the watch for that. 

     

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    Pat FlemingAuthor
    New Participant
    May 14, 2020

    Hi Nancy,

    Just to be clear the file structure was not the issue and the local site work 100% & all relative paths were correctly created & work locally. As you pointed some links on the live site had an extra "pages/" in its relative path. My issue was I had no idea where this was coming from as it was not there (correctly) on the local site. Dreamweaver (or possibly the server) added the extra "pages/" to the relative when that page was  FTP'd.

    I dont think that having your pages in a "pages" subfolder over complicates the site, but even of it does, DW Templates should easily be able to handling that relative path addressing as per having an images folder.

    What fixed this problem for me was not relying on DW built in Site Syncornisation feature but to manually "Put" each page to the live site. When I did it this way the Live Site to correctly mirror the local site whose linking alway was perfect.

    I just want to clarify this to ensure that if the very rare & unusal problem occurs to someone else, what worked for me here might help them.

    Again you have been fantastic in your help.

    Thank you,

    Pat

     

    Pat

     

    Nancy OShea
    Nancy OShea
    Community Expert
    May 12, 2020

    By the sound of things, you have put child pages spawned from the Template into a duplicate pages folder.  Until you resolve that problem, nothing will work right.

     

    Please expand your Files Panel (F8) to show Remote Server and Local Files side-by-side.  They should be nearly identical in structure except that your Remote server has a Root Directory (public_html, www, htdocs, etc...) which varies by hosting plan and your Local Site does not.  Can you post a screenshot of your expanded Files Panel?  See my screenshot below as an example.

     

     

    Nancy O'Shea— Product User, Community Expert &amp; Moderator
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      Pat FlemingAuthor
      New Participant
      May 13, 2020

      Hi Nacy,

       

      Thank you so much for your reply, below is a screen shot of my Expanded view. I'm probably blind but every ting looks a 100%.

       

      The site in questions is: http://www.athlonetrainingcentre.ie/

       

      Thanks a mill,

      Pat

       

       

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      Pat FlemingAuthor
      New Participant
      May 13, 2020

      We need to see your Template.dwt and a child page spawned from that Template.

      From the link you posted, I can't find a problem except that Google Maps is not working on your contact page.

       


      Hi Nancy,

      Thanks again. It's late here so I'll post the dwt  tomorrow. 
      If you visit this page (created from a template):

      http://www.athlonetrainingcentre.ie/pages/apprenticeship.html

       and from it visit the for example the Wellbeing or Links page (also  both from template you should  see the issue. If you visit either Wellbeing or Links pages from Home or About the links works perfect (neither from a template).

      I've tried re-created the links many times in Design (3 ways) & Code View (2 way). In live view I struggle to re-do the responsive hamburger menu but redid the normal navigation 3 ways as well. 
      Honestly can't figure the google map thing & too busy to spend time figuring out what's wrong  

      Again thank you sooo much. 
      Stay safe. 
      Pat

       

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