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How to work out the URL for your website
« on: May 29, 2007, 04:54:20 PM »
Tina has sent me an email asking how to change the URL of her first web project.
Currently it is:
http://www.ideasforgardens.net/tina-wilson/Tinasgarden/

She would like to change this to:
http://www.ideasforgardens.net/Tinas-Garden/Circle-garden

Simple (Ive called them tasks, so as not to confuse with the Steps in WPG:
Task 1
In the Web Page Generator, in Step 2, change the Web Page Prefix from Tinasgarden to Circle-garden
This will create a new folder:
c:\igdata_sets\web\Circle-garden

Task 2
The original folder created in Tinas first attempt is called:
c:\igdata_sets\web\Tinasgarden
Thats because the Web Page Prefix was called Tinasgarden
Get it?

Thus the original folder is now redundant. However, it contains the photos, so they need to be moved to the new folder

Task 3
Copy the images from
c:\igdata_sets\web\Tinasgarden
to
c:\igdata_sets\web\Circle-garden

Task 4
Click the Generate button (Step ?)

Task 5
Click View button (Step ?)
Make sure the pages are correct, and have photos

Now FTP the new folder, Circle-garden into the
(http://www.ideasforgardens.net/) tina-wilson folder on the server

The URL to this project is now:
http://www.ideasforgardens.net/tina-wilson/Circle-garden

Task 6
Change the name of the folder (on the server) from tina-wilson to Tinas-Garden

The URL will now be
http://www.ideasforgardens.net/Tinas-Garden/Circle-garden

Job done

Its just like working with files and folders on your local computer.
Ive gone about it all as described to let you see how URL's work.
As you see, they are actually PATH names.
Instead of c:\ the folders and file names are simply prefixed with the name of the server, in this case, http://www.ideasforgardens.net
Easy?




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Re: How to work out the URL for your website
« Reply #1 on: May 31, 2007, 07:54:04 PM »
Its now working as planned Tina!