My website still won't show up

[Flamzeron]

All the images had been uploaded once I had uploaded the zipped folder. They should be linked correctly, but the broken ones are still broken.

[Guest Geoff]

Do you have the image m_c1.gif?

[Flamzeron]

Yes I do.

[Guest Geoff]

Upload it to the images folder.

[Flamzeron]

It's there.

[Guest Geoff]

It doesn't appear to be there for me:

 

root@johnny [/home/mizuho/public_html/images]# ls
./        botbg.gif*     colette4.gif*  genis1.gif*  genis5.gif*   kratos3.gif*  title.gif*
../       colette1.gif*  colette5.gif*  genis2.gif*  home.gif*     kratos4.gif*
bg1.gif*  colette2.gif*  corrine.gif*   genis3.gif*  kratos1.gif*  kratos5.gif*
bg.gif*   colette3.gif*  cress1.png*    genis4.gif*  kratos2.gif*  lefbg.gif*
root@johnny [/home/mizuho/public_html/images]#

[Flamzeron]

It should be fine now. The image folder that was being linked in the code was an old one. The images should be working now. The only one that isn't working is the home one.

 

Also, how do I remove the weird language that shows up sometimes?

[Guest Geoff]

Change this:

 

 

$home_img = "http://mizuho.heliohost.org/cgi-bin/images/home.gif";              # Homepage image.

 

To this:

 

 

$home_img = "home.gif";              # Homepage image.

[Flamzeron]

It's working now.

 

How do I get rid of the weird number language that shows up?

[Guest Geoff]

The problem is your script was written in mandarin, and probably when you saved it on your windows computer, it got saved in ASCII, causing a loss of character information. You should have saved it in UTF-8 instead, which would have prevented those weird numbers. However, since you can't go back and change the future, you'll need to manually change all the characters that got messed up on your windows machine.

 

Be sure that while you are editing your file, you keep a backup of the previous version of your script, and before deleting the backup, test your script in your browser.

[Flamzeron]

How do I know what to look for in the code?

[Guest Geoff]

Pretty much, you need to look for characters like this:

 

\&\#\2\3\9\;

 

I can't post the character, take out the backslashes.

 

And change them to letters.

 

Really, you don't need to do this for every occurance, you only really need to do this to the ones that show on the web page.

[jje]

Don't edit your files in Notepad, it adds extras to it that can confuse the server. Use metapad instead.

[Guest Geoff]

 

It's not so funny when notepad messes up 1000 lines of code... That's why I don't use it.

[jje]

I thought that was a grin, not a laugh.

 

Yeah, Notepad is very bad for editing code. Just use metapad; much better.