Broken links after upgrade

[REX]

Hello

After upgrading from v7 to v8 i have encounterd an error. All my links to .pdf documents are broken.

I use the simple link function. All pdf docs are stored on my local disc in a folder pdfdocs/xxxx.pdf.

On the webserver all docs are placed directly under acatalog/ folder but the links looks like this:

/acatalog/pdfdocs/Easy-Balancer_Datasheet_2.pdf

If i move the docs from my local pdfdocs/ folder and place the in the Site1 folder and redirects the simple link it works just fine. Is this the way to go?

I also get the following error when uploding the site:

"Warning: The HTML templates specify source files (with "SRC=" commands) that reside in directories other than the acatalog directory on the web site. Actinic can not handle these files and they are being omitted from the list of files to upload.

No source files in the templates should have a path. Store them in the site specific directory locally, and they will be uploaded to the Actinic web directory."

I think my problem and the error message are conected but i don't know how fix it

Best regards
Henrik

[mike_howles]

I've made this mistake a couple of time with images.

basically any linked document needs to be living in the 'site1' (or currently worked on site) directory in your Actinic program directory.

e.g.:
C:\Program Files\Actinic v8\Sites\Site1\mydocument.pdf

It means that when the site is uploaded all files end up in the acatalog directory on the webserver. It ain't very tidy but then, who cares, it's no longer a manual exercise. All that matters is that Actinic knows where all the files are!!

The error message you get indicates that somewhere there is a file that is linked to, that does not reside in the site1 directory.

Mike

[brian.mc]

I've made this mistake a couple of time with images.

basically any linked document needs to be living in the 'site1' (or currently worked on site) directory in your Actinic program directory.

e.g.:
C:\Program Files\Actinic v8\Sites\Site1\mydocument.pdf

It means that when the site is uploaded all files end up in the acatalog directory on the webserver. It ain't very tidy but then, who cares, it's no longer a manual exercise. All that matters is that Actinic knows where all the files are!!

The error message you get indicates that somewhere there is a file that is linked to, that does not reside in the site1 directory.

Mike

You can create folders within the Site1 Folder to keep it tidy. eg C:\Program Files\Actinic v8\Sites\Site1\PDF\mydocument.pdf
The files in the subfolder will be uploaded along with the main Site1.
We use this method to store our thumbnail images separately from the main ones.

[REX]

Thanks Mike,

my pdfdocs folder is located within the \site1\ folder like this:

C:\Program Files\Actinic v8\Sites\Site1\pdfdocs\mydocument.pdf

and it worked with v7.

Also all my images are placed in a simular way and they work. C:\Program Files\Actinic v8\Sites\Site1\images\image.jpg

Best regards
Henrik

[mike_howles]

Ok, I've learnt something today then!!

Initially I had a directory within the site1 directory to store our images but I was getting the img src= error message until I put everything in the site1 directory.

We don't have many products so it doesn't matter.

So, I stand corrected.

Thanks

Mike