Updated indextemplate not showing up.

Silverblue · Post by **Silverblue** » Wed Mar 27, 2002 5:36 pm

Good afternoon.

I'm helping a friend work on a site (http://pornography.keenspace.com), and both of us have been experiencing the same irritating error when we log in.

I've updated his indextemplate.html with a new look and feel. After uploading the new file to the server, I hit the Site Maintenance area and update all the files. However, this change is not reflected on the website itself!

Now, curiously, when I FTP the updated, new indextemplate.html _back_ from the server it contains the updated information. So it is getting up there successfully. It's just not being processed from indextemplate.html into the index.html file at the base directory, by the looks of things.

My friend has also, seperately, tried to upload an updated indextemplate.html and has found that Keenspace will not update it to index.html either.

We _are_ using the Site Maintenance button to make the changes, and since they aren't going through after waiting several days, I'm assuming something is drastically wrong. Any ideas? What you should see when you hit http://pornography.keenspace.com is a site with an orange border and a series of buttons across the top - not to mention the advert!

Seven3 · Post by **Seven3** » Wed Mar 27, 2002 11:54 pm

Chances are you've got a rogue index(template).html in /webpages/ - delete it.

Post by **Kisai** » Thu Mar 28, 2002 3:18 pm

I don't see a problem now, n/m

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Georgia · Post by **Georgia** » Sat Apr 06, 2002 4:53 pm

I'm having this same problem with mine (http://girlstreet.keenspace.com), but I looked in /webpages/ and didn't find any files at all...so I have no idea what the problem is.

Seven3 · Post by **Seven3** » Sun Apr 07, 2002 3:38 am

Take a look at yout /public_html/index.html file, if it's as it sohuld be try clearing your browser's cache (history and temporary files).

Halkeye · Post by **Halkeye** » Tue Apr 09, 2002 8:48 pm

That is not the problem. Keenspace is not able to determine the username when an update is run.

(DEBUG) User=, Site=[girlstreet.keenspace.com]
You are already in the queue for this kind of update. There is no need to submit again. You are number 1 in the queue. Thanks.

I figured out i could get it working by tacking on a &user=girlstreet on to the url provided.

Could possibly help other people

Atrus · Post by **Atrus** » Wed Apr 10, 2002 8:48 am

That will always work as long as they don't change the name of the variable in the script. The stuff after filename in a URL is called a "query string" and is used by the perl/php/whatever script as a piece of information. So if they decide to change the variable name in the script to something else, it will stop working.

This is definately something the wranglers should be aware of, so send an e-mail to help@keenspace.com. I'm surprised there isn't a message that says something like "An error has occured, please notify the webmaster at webmaster@keenspace.com and be sure to include the following debug information:"

Apfhex · Post by **Apfhex** » Thu Apr 11, 2002 4:17 pm

I figured out i could get it working by tacking on a &user=girlstreet on to the url provided.

As, so THAT'S it! Thanks for that tip. I wasn't able to get my site to update untill I realized that the &user thing was missing (stupid error on my part...I bookmarked my member page, which bypasses the login page where you enter your username).

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ZOMBIE USER 7698 · Post by **ZOMBIE USER 7698** » Thu Apr 11, 2002 6:43 pm

Hmm. I tried adding that to the end of the url. Didn't work for me..
Or am I doing it wrong?
How do you add that &user=[username] to the url?

Halkeye · Post by **Halkeye** » Thu Apr 11, 2002 8:39 pm

On 2002-04-11 19:43, Nekomimikun wrote:
Hmm. I tried adding that to the end of the url. Didn't work for me..
Or am I doing it wrong?
How do you add that &user=[username] to the url?

For me, the link was something like:
/cgi-bin/add2....cgi?site=girlstreet.keenspace.com&options=i

i just put on &user=girlstreet afterwards

/cgi-bin/add2....cgi?site=girlstreet.keenspace.com&options=i&user=girlstreet

Note, the /cgi-bin stuff is wrong, i can't remember the full address