If I upload the index file on my site, a whole group of extra words appear. On the Safari preview it looks fine, but on the actual upload you can see the extra words. I tried emptying the cache, deleting the history, making a new index page. No luck. Can anyone help? Thanks
Please post a url to the page so the folks here can help with your issue.
Www.nortonlandpreservation.org. I changed the index page since I wrote. It is now Signs of spring, but the problem is the same. Thanks. LK
Not following you - what other words are appearing and where? If you mean the browser title - which does appear duplicated - what have you got in the Browser Title field (General settings > Meta Data).
In more general terms, there are a couple of other observations;
- You really should think about putting the site into a modern responsive theme - the site is hard to read and navigate on mobile devices
- Your pages are all generic titles e.g. https://nortonlandpreservation.org/styled-6/. You should replace the last bit with something appropriate to the page content e.g https://nortonlandpreservation.org/lps-meetings/. This is done in the same general settings > meta data area as shown:
- The site is not being indexed by search engines. Is this intentional?
These words appear in the index on the menu. It should say Signs of Spring. Is fine in the Safari preview but does not upload correctly. LK
It’s a block of text with some of the navigation titles that has appeared in the top of the navigation container… but how? I’m playing with the theme at the moment but i cant see how to replicate so far.
OK. I have no idea how it happened. It had been fine for years! L
Have you tried “republishing all files”? Also check in your sidebar to see if that text wasn’t inadvertently copied there.
I have republished all files several times and checked the sidebar with page inspector. L
You have a differnent page for the home page.
https://nortonlandpreservation.org/
gives you the page with the broken navigation.
https://nortonlandpreservation.org/index.html
Gives you the page that has the fixed navigation.
Not sure what is going on, but it’s like the DNS is pointing some place different.
Not knowing who the host is can’t say what might cause the problem.
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Also on the https://nortonlandpreservation.org/index.html page the Home page link goes to https://nortonlandpreservation.org/styled-43/page0.html, whereas the “Signs of Spring” link above the home page is set to https://nortonlandpreservation.org. So the navigation has problems, perhaps of what you did when:
What version of RW are you using and what OS X version?
Although there is a page called home, I set Signs of Spring as the index page. The same thing happens if I make the Home Page the index page. Go Daddy says it is a Rapidweaver issue ??? I can try putting the Home Page back as the index page, but it will still show those words when published. That is how it was originally. I am happy to call Go Daddy again, but don’t know what to say to them. LK
How are you “setting” the index page?
Right now https://nortonlandpreservation.org/index.html is the signs of spring page without problems.
That should be the main page you get when you type in the URL. It is the home directory and the file is index.html.
Go-daddy is full of it!!! There are thousands of RW websites that work fine.
i set it by choosing to make it the index page from a list of choices from a right click it does not come up for me or a friend who also checked it i i have used RW for years and never had this happen until this week. the safari preview is fine. what can i change? LK
if you click on that link and then click on signs of spring it reverts to the word list i am not near the laptop with RW on it, but updated to it fairly recently. will send more info when i can get to the laptop. thanks LK
did you try typing in the URL? LK
I understand that the page without the index.html has the issue.
Don’t know what page GoDaddy is serving when you don’t use a fully qualified URL. The industry standard is to point to an index.html, index.php or index.cgi file.
I checked, you have no idea.php, no index.cgi, but do have an index.html file in the root directory of the server. It displays correctly with the full URL (with the file name).
I never have and never will use GoDaddy. My only experience with them has been to move websites away from them, and even that isn’t without drama.
Ask them why the URL I listed above with the filename works perfectly but without the filename you get junk. Good luck with getting an answer from them.
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Wow! LK
Dear Doug and David, thank you both for your help, although you were not able to resolve the problem. I called Go Daddy and they were more than helpful. It turned out that some malware was in the site causing problems. They were able to resolve the problem and give me some hints about cleaning out malware in the future. With few exceptions I have always found Go Daddy very responsive, very helpful and willing to talk to me in regular English rather than computerese. I am sorry your experiences have been poor with them. Meanwhile I continue to like Rapid Weaver as it meets my needs. I am sorry the company is not big enough to have phone support, but you both did respond to my emails. Thanks again. Linda K
Can you tell us what exactly the malware was that Godaddy found “in the site”, where it was exactly and how you or Godaddy found it?