Thanks, Tomas. Last time I tried, the site did SAVE to my desktop, but I still couldn’t publish it by dragging it into Filezilla. Or, maybe I just tried to drag in one page at a time. Not quite sure how to do that.
I had houseguests for several days and thought I might improve my publishing options by clicking the “health check” window on my site and following the directions there – so I did that, only to discover that they really didn’t have anything to do with publishing. The lady who is in charge of checking to see if the site is published (properly) went out of the country for 7 days, so that gave me more time. But I’m back at it today and trying to get it online again. I also plan to reconnect with “thang” to see if he has any more helpful hints. I had actually viewed many of those intro videos, but will watch the publishing one once again to see if there are any things in it that I might have missed. Then I’m going to reconnect with ‘thang’ or ‘you’ if it doesn’t work. I MUST must must find a reliable way to make updates on this site that doesn’t drive me crazy each time. Thank you very much for your help.
OK, when you say “save to desktop” are you saving the RapidWeaver file?
To use an FTP program to export you will need to “publish” your website to a local folder.
HI, “thang,”
I watched the video. Thanks so much. Also did the whole “health check” thing, which I seriously doubt has anything to do with publishing, but did it anyway. I am still getting the same error message, “Failure when receiving data from the peer.” I also got this message using RW’s own server. And since the video said that publishing speed No. 6 (lightening speed) was really publishing six separate versions at once instead of one, I also tried that, since doing it the slow way was the way I had gotten it to work when I had contacted my own server. If I had failed when receiving from MY “peer” (a.k.a. Network Solutions) I also had the same problem with the Rapid Weaver “peer.”
I very much appreciate the help you’ve given me so far . . . I will try Network Solutions again now to see if they have another solution. I am about at my wit’s end… I sure hope there are some other things to try. What bothers me tremendously is that I publishes once, and only once, each time I try to get it going . . . . but after that I have to go through all kinds of hell to get it published AGAIN to fix a little thing or revise. The other thing that bothers me is that I do NOT seem to be able to drag the site over to the publishing engine and publish it that way, either. Maybe Network Solutions will help me with that. They did give me two different server numbers to use when I was trying to publish to Filezilla, so maybe the last one I used didn’t work on the RW publishing engine but did work at Network Solutions.
Thanks, Doug.
I did both. I will try again right now. I am not even sure that I can publish it to a local folder. I will try that right now. Thank you so much for that tip!
so far no issues at all and preview appears quite a bit snappier.
Just did publish it to a local folder. That’s progress. So, now I need to publish THAT either to the RW site or to Filezilla. Is there a video on that?
I have never used Filezilla, but you will need to use that to get your files from the local folder you published into, to your host.
Most FTP clients (like Filezilla) have two windows, one for your local computer and the other for your host. If Filezilla works that way then set the local computer side to the folder you just published to.
There appears to be a lot of over complicating going on here not to mention confusion. Let’s start from the beginning with RW’s built in publishing engine.
- I asume you have a hosting account with Network Solutions
- They can give you a Server Name or IP address something like 123.234.567.789
- They can also give you a Username and Password
- Finally they can give you a ‘Publishing Path’ something like ‘public_html’ but it does vary from host to host
- Enter these details in RW Publishing Settings (bottom of black menu on left)
- While you are in there, set your ‘Publishing Method’ to ‘ftp’ and your ‘Mode’ to ‘Extended Passive’
- Click the ‘Test’ button
- If all appears to be correct, go to the ‘File’ menu and select ‘mark all pages and resources as changed’
- Then, in the same menu, click ‘republish ALL files’
- Report back on what happens
Thank you Dogman – (ha, ha)… Yes, I do have a hosting account with NS.
Yes I have the IP for the hosting account. (Although, in calling their tech support system when trying to publish last week, they also gave me an alternative one thinking it might work better. And it did work ONCE, the first time when I was online with them, but never again – I should have been able to use those settings and just click “publish” or “republish all files” in the Publishing section of the theme I was using.
And yes, I do have the username and password. And when publishing (or, TRYING to publish to Filezilla) of course I use those. They also are filled out in on the auto publish page of the RW software theme.
I did have the publishing method set to ftp and the mode to extended passive. And I do click the ‘test’ button. That often gives me the error message that it cannot publish. And then I click the blue “info” window and get the message I mentioned above, saying, “failure when receiving data from the peer.” I also do select ‘mark all pages . . . etc. as changed’ . . will try yet one more time. (after also answering “teefers” who I see also just sent me a reply. Thanks – you know, I have published many websites, even though I might have sounded a bit daffy in my notes to “thang.” This Theme is a good one (Open) and I had not used it before, but it wasn’t terribly difficult to use. I have made some really nice sites with RW software and used it since version 5. Not that that makes my knowledge bank any deeper. I AM, admittedly, quite an amateur, and RW always makes my sites look so gorgeous and I get sooo many compliments. But I’ve NEVER had this problem. I am totally stumped with this. But I will do this AGAIN, step by step. I’m just checking in as I go – progress report.
Please follow @manofdogz advice and checklist.
There appears to be a lot of over complicating going on here not to mention confusion. Let’s start from the beginning with RW’s built in publishing engine.
Well said! In the interest of trying to lessen your confusion please note:
- The only ‘server’ involved in this is the one on your Network Solutions account (there is no RW server)
- RW has it’s own built in FTP engine which does the same thing as FileZilla, but from within RW. When you publish from RW using it’s built in FTP publishing you don’t need to export locally and then use Filezilla. RW does the whole process itself.
Now that you’ve posted your results using the checklist, try changing your publishing mode to ‘passive’ and reduce the ‘Connections’ to 1-slowest. Then try "Test’. If you are still not able to publish, what is the error message now?
Can you post a screen shot of your publishing settings please?
Right, Doug. Filezilla has four windows, but there are two on the left and two on the right. I think the top windows are the “untouched” ones – and the bottom windows on each side are the “drag from window” (at left, representing the files on your OWN computer) and the “drag to” window on the right, representing the “brain” of Filezilla where the publication files are stored. Once the dragging gets completed, the website should be published. Right now, I am not quite sure WHAT to drag. This whole experience has been quite unnerving, and I get flustered, and I’m not quite sure which of the 11 files in the local publication folder to drag to the
lower right (“drag to”) Filezilla window, or, exactly where to drag it (what folder there).
Thank you, David – I am sorry about my lack of vocabulary when it comes to this. I actually did understand that RW wasn’t a “server,” but that it had its own FTP engine which did the same thing as FileZilla but from within RW. The only reason I tried to export locally was AFTER the FTP autopublishing feature from the software had given me the message that it could not publish. Tech Support at Network Solutions had told me that if the auto publish did not work, then I could try dragging the site over to Filezilla manually and they assured me it would publish that way (it did not.)
I have tried publishing with the slowest mode before but will try again now, and I will change the mode to passive and let you know.
I also have been told to try using the /htdocs path… that worked first, but not anymore. Also, I used the /htdocs/MOSA path. I cannot remember if that worked or not.
On RapidWeaver remove the / in Path and hit the browse button. see what happens.
That’s all good. Correct terminology is really important here - otherwise it’s very hard to tell what you are understanding and doing.
just tried the /htdocs and /htdocs/MOSA paths, which also did not work. And neither did the plain slash. But I find the messages interesting that I’m receiving from Godzilla – that my server is “insecure,” even though I did apparently get a connection for a little while, according to the messages…
On Filezilla the right lower window you have a folder htdocs select that, and what happens?
Two things to clarify here: 1) That the 105.178.145.65:21 host name was a name I tried only for a moment because one of the addresses that the tech at NetSolhost had given me began with 105 or 103… for a minute I thought I might have made a typo and typed 2 instead of 1, but that turned out to be wrong. It DOES connect with the 205. The second thing I wanted to make sure, of, Doug, is that when you said I should “select” the htdocs folder, did you mean I should simply click it, or did you mean I should try moving the files from the left lower quadrant into the right lower quadrant? I will do both the things that have been suggested. I will remove the slash from the path first and then try to publish. Then, I will “select” (click on) the htdocs folder lower right. I have done that before, and when I do, it opens and the contents are shown and my previously published website is there (after several other websites’ folders, when I published previously to this domain name, but later withdrew the contents. I republished OVER those old files. They apparently were erased by that. I will get back to you wonderful people as soon as I do. Thank you again for trying to help. Very grateful!
Okay. First report: With the menu still changed to Mode: Passive, I removed the slash and hit test and immediately got the same message: “Couldn’t sign in to your FTP server. . . Failure when receiving data from the peer.”
However, removing the slash appears to have done it miraculously. Look:
I might have a bottle of champagne with whoever suggested that. . . ha, ha. IF . . . IF . . . IF . . . it works. Anyone near Malibu? Ha! Trying it again right now. I also used “extended Passive” mode when I tried that.