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maezee · July 12th, 2005, 05:11 PM

I've been through this exercise several times, and when I try to view it in my browser, the error: "The page cannot be found." I'm saving the behaviortest.htm file in the same folder as other .htm files for thecookingplace web site. I have no idea what I'm doing wrong here. It's such a simple little exercise -- Any suggestions?

maezee · July 12th, 2005, 05:13 PM

Whoops -- above topic is for Beginning Dreamweaver MX 2004.:D

Imar · July 12th, 2005, 05:21 PM

Hi there,

Can you post the code for the page? Where did you save it exactly, and how do you try to access it???

Imar
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Everyone is unique, except for me.
While typing this post, I was listening to: 10 - Tension Head by Queens of the Stone Age (Track 10 from the album: Rated R) What's This?

maezee · July 12th, 2005, 08:47 PM

Hello Imar --

Thank you for your quick response.

The file is saved under the site: TheCookingPlace/thecookingplace/behaviortest2.htm.

Following is the code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/JavaScript">

</script>
</head>

<body onload="MM_popupMsg('Can you see this message? Good!')">
This is a test of <a href="#" onclick="MM_popupMsg('And here\'s the pop-up message. It worked!')">JavaScript</a> behaviors - let's see if it works.
</body>
</html>

maezee · July 12th, 2005, 09:02 PM

I don't know why I can't get this all together at the same time. The exact file location is: My Documents\TheCookingPlace\thecookingplace. http://localhost/TheCookingPlace/thecookingplace/
The remote folder is C:/Abyss Web Server/htdocs/TheCookingPlace
Testing Server is the same.
Should the Remote and Testing servers both be: C:/Abyss Web Server/htdocs/TheCookingPlace/thecookingplace?

Imar · July 13th, 2005, 02:35 AM

Often on a local machine, the Testing and Remote locations are the same, although that's not necessary.

What web server are you using? If you use http://localhost/TheCookingPlace, can you see the folder and the files it holds? What happens when you place a simple file in your web root and browse to it?

Looks like a mis configuration of either Dreamweaver (e.g. wrong path specified in the Sites dialog for the http location) or in Apache, where you remote folder doesn't map to http://localhost/TheCookingPlace

Cheers,

Imar
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Imar Spaanjaars
Everyone is unique, except for me.

maezee · July 13th, 2005, 06:35 AM

Hi Imar,

You are right. I messed up my Remote/Testing Sites configuation while trying to gain access to the same files from my laptop -- now I can't view any of that site's .htm files in my browser. I'll be back in touch after untangling the mess (which won't be until later today).

Thanks for your help.

Imar · July 13th, 2005, 01:02 PM

Sure, no problem.

You are aware that section 2 and 3 deal with ASP and access extensively, and that that requires you to have a webserver running IIS?? You can use a local machine with IIS, or a remote host (your ISP), but you need an ASP capable machine.

Are you running IIS or Apache??

Imar
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Imar Spaanjaars
Everyone is unique, except for me.
While typing this post, I was listening to: You Would Know by Queens of the Stone Age (Track 5 from the album: Queens of the Stone Age) What's This?

maezee · July 14th, 2005, 08:32 AM

Hi Imar,
I'm not running IIS or Apache. Am using Abyss Web Server. There is a "work around" for running IIS on Windows XP Home, but it was way to complicated for me. The reason for my problem was: I wanted to use my laptop sometimes to work on web site files, and having the server under C:\Program Files didn't allow sharing; so I moved the server folder to my root C:\. (I don't know what possessed me to just move the files instead of uninstalling and reinstalling the server program.

)
Everything is working fine now - my problem is solved. Thank you, again, for your help.
Mae

M Peterson
To err is human; to really foul things up requires a computer.