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    Hi

    I have a drop down list menu on the brochure page which is the website's home page. However, selecting items from the menu takes you to a Page Not Found page as the /acatalog/ part of the url seems to be missing.

    I have searched the forum and thought I had found the answer in this thread and have done as Chris Dicken suggested, namely delete everything from /acatalog/ directory in the server, remove '&ACTINIC_REFERRER=' + escape(location.href) + from the script in the <head> section of the template and refreshed the site....twice! But the problem persists.

    Any ideas?

    Cheers
    Jon

    #2
    It may be you still have a dodgy session file on the server which has stored the wrong URL for the acatalog folder within it.

    Try going to 'Help | Troubleshooting' and then click 'Purge Session Files' in order to clear those.

    Could you also give me a URL that I can look at the check the store for myself?

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      #3
      Hi Chris

      I tried your suggestion but it still didn't work. (On previous attempts I had deleted all the files off the web directory anyway.) However, I thought...I'll just have one more go deleting everything and refeshing the site, and now miraculously it works again!

      If you could have a look anyway and see whether you think the problem might re-iccur, I'd appreciate it.

      Globaholic.com

      Cheers

      Jon

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        #4
        That's "occur" - my spill chooker isn't wyking!

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          #5
          Oh God it's doing it again!!

          I have made a couple of small changes to templates in other areas and some catalog changes but that's all

          What's going on....help!

          Jon

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            #6
            I have not yet found a water-tight way of sorting these out when they go wrong.

            As a suggestion, I would recommend you re-instate the

            '&ACTINIC_REFERRER=' + escape(location.href) +

            command in the JavaScript in the <HEAD> area.

            Then upload and then purge all your session files before testing the site again.

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              #7
              OK I have done as you suggest and it seems to be OK. But for how long? Any further thoughts on resolving the problem permanently would be appreciated...

              BTW another problem I had with the simple search bar not working in the catalog pages still persists. Tried pinbrook's suggestion of starting with a clean Act_SimpleSearch.html but a search just takes you to the same page you started on.

              Any ideas please?

              Cheers
              Jon

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                #8
                I think it will be fine now.

                I went on your site yesterday and saw the problem when I selected a section from the drop-down. Then this morning I cleared my cookies and did exactly the same thing and it worked fine.

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                  #9
                  Thanks

                  Any views on the search bar problem, i.e. not working on catalog pages?

                  Cheers
                  Jon

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                    #10
                    It looks as if you do not have a </form> af the end of your drop-down box code, which is corrupting all the other forms in the page.

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                      #11
                      I took that out because it was generating a line break and distorting the table, but I put it back in the next table cell (blank except for an image backgroung) in Act_Primary.html. So that should work shouldn't it?

                      Cheers
                      Jon

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                        #12
                        Should do.

                        You can also add the following lines into actinic.css:

                        form{
                        margin-top:0px;
                        margin-right:0px;
                        margin-bottom:0px;
                        margin-left:0px;
                        }

                        to elimiate any gaps created by <form> tags

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                          #13
                          OK thanks. Good tip for an irritating problem with </form> tags.


                          But that still leaves me with a non-functioning search bar. Any more ideas?

                          Cheers
                          Jon

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                            #14
                            When I search with your search bar, I get the following parameters coming into the search:

                            http://www.globaholic.com/acatalog/Tibetan_Amulet_Boxes.html?ACT_droplstbox=&SS=wood&PR=-1&TB=A&SHOP=&RANDOM=NETQUOTEVAR%3ARANDOM&USER=&PASS=&HASH=&SSLBOUNCE=&challenge=5fc7f2425c9afcef1571b5ca4e196c22&challengeou

                            These are all the input parameters on the page, which is why I suggested the fix with adding the </form> tag to the drop-list.

                            Having just looked at http://www.globaholic.com/acatalog/T...let_Boxes.html I can see that the </form> is still missing from the drop-down code.

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                              #15
                              Chris

                              It is working OK now thanks although I will have to move the search bar as the </form> tag still creates a line break.

                              However, I still don't get why it didn't pick up the </form> tag before. OK it wasn't in Act_Simplesearch.html, but it was in Act_Primary.html in the next table cell to the right of where NETQUOTEVAR:SIMPLESEARCH was.

                              Also, I am getting quite a lot of seemingly random CGI error/incorrect http headers messages when navigating the site. This isn't connected is it - some wierd server problem or something?

                              Have a good weekend

                              Jon

                              PS Thanks for helping me up the learning curve!

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