Catalog Links

[Stunty]

Happy New Year everybody!

I have a curious problem which I could use some advice on.
I built a separate catalog page for my site, with links from every row to the product in the catalog.
the site is www.newtrecords.co.uk - and the catalog page is www.newtrecords.co.uk/cataweb/webcat.HTML

now, on my PC all the links work fine every time. however, on my colleague's PC not 6 feet away from me, all the links get a 'NO PAGE EXISTS' reply.
but then, I went down the road to a friends house house, to see if the links worked from there, and they only work half the time!!!!
this as you can imagine has caused me a great deal of confusion..

the sites being hosted by netbenefit on a Linux server. any help with why this is happening will be greatly appreciated.

thanks for your time.

[pinbrook]

Well I get 404 errors too.

where does your catalog reside, as the page it is trying to find is

http://www.newtrecords.co.uk/cataweb....html#aca003cd

are your pages in a folder called cataweb or are they at acatalog

[Stunty]

they reside in acatalog..

[Stunty]

I just tried setting up a link with Actinic from the home brochure page to a product using the [LINK] command, and exactly the same problem exists.

[pinbrook]

What have you done to make catalog think there is a folder called cataweb?

[Stunty]

nothing - cataweb is just where the webcat.html page resides.
are you saying the webcat.html page should reside in the same folder as main catalog?

[pinbrook]

you need to ensure your links point to the acatalog folder, at present you are generating links to the wrong folder hence the 404 error.

[Stunty]

I hate to question the voice of superior knowledge (lol) but - are you sure?

this is the first link on the page:
http://newtrecords.co.uk/cgi/ss00000...60lp&NOLOGIN=1
see, if I copy that url into my browser it takes me straight to the product!

now, if you go see the home brochure page -(www.newtrecords.co.uk) - and scroll down, you'll see a link named broch-link which I did with the actinic interface using the [LINK] command. now for me, this also goes straight to the product - but alas, not for anybody else!

any idea why?

[pinbrook]

When someone clicks on the link which you have created http://newtrecords.co.uk/cgi/ss0000...260lp&NOLOGIN=1

it is translated into
http://www.newtrecords.co.uk/cataweb....html#atg260lp

if you were to move the file called webcat.HTML into a catalog folder it will probably work.

[george]

The link does not work for me either. Would a site refresh be required?

[Stunty]

thanks guys.. I've moved everything around and changed all the links. will let you know how it goes...

[Stunty]

thanks again

I moved the catweb.html into the acatalog folder and refreshed the web site and now everybody's link works!

fantastic!