chadf Posted June 20, 2003 Posted June 20, 2003 My site was working just fine yesterday. I had everything just how I wanted it, and I made a backup. Since I had the backup, today I went in to uninstall Frontpage Extensions since FP has been nothing but a problem ever since I started using it. After I uninstalled the FP extensions, everything worked except my Gallery photo albums. I can get to the Gallery main page, but when I click on a photo album I get the dreaded "The Page Cannot Be Found" error. So then I calmly restored my backup and it still does the same thing! I am a little freaked out here because I've put a lot of time into the gallery and I was careful to get a backup before I did anything like that. As far as I can tell, all the files are there. I'm wondering if my HTACCESS file could be the problem, because the hyperlink for each album points to a subdirectory under the Gallery directory that does not exist. If anyone has any insight on this problem that could help I would greatly appreciate it. I'm dreading having to go back and do it all over again. - Chad Quote
chadf Posted June 20, 2003 Author Posted June 20, 2003 I currently don't even have an .htaccess file in my Gallery directory. All I have is .htaccess.1056111626. Is that the same thing? I don't understand that because my backup shows a .htaccess file for the gallery directory. Why would it not have installed with the backup restore? Quote
TCH-JimE Posted June 20, 2003 Posted June 20, 2003 Hi, An .htaccess file should only be in the root directory, no where else. If you want, PM me your details and I will take a quick look Jim Quote
chadf Posted June 20, 2003 Author Posted June 20, 2003 OK, crisis averted! I figured it out. What I didn't know was that when you extract a backup it puts it in a separate folder in the home directory. All I had to do was copy the htaccess file from the backup gallery folder to the 'live" gallery folder and PRESTO! all is well again. Boy am I glad to be done with Frontpage! I have been slowly migrating away from it for the last month or so because it was just so limiting and strange behaving. It wanted to control every little aspect of my site! So if anyone is going to uninstall their Frontpage extensions, learn from my lesson. Make sure you have a backup first, and watch out for htaccess problems. I think there is even a warning before you do it. Just be careful. - Chad Quote
TCH-JimE Posted June 20, 2003 Posted June 20, 2003 Hi, When doing any changes on anyweb site, or database or script, have a backup and if you can a seperate backup just in case of corruption! Jim Quote
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