HTML - Windows Vs. Linux Servers
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This is in the wrong place... but I didn't know where to put it!!! I wanted to put it in the server administration, but that was divided by Unix, Linux, and Windows anyways and I didn't know if I should just choose one or what. I think this can be moved if someone knows where the best place is. Right? Getting to the point... I have no idea what the difference is as far as Windows and Linux web hosting servers? I am using one of Brinkster.com's shared server plans (because they are cheap!). They give an option between Windows and Linux. Which one is better? Which one should I use? Any suggestions? Thanks!!! Similar TutorialsHi, Not sure if this is the correct forum for this question but I was wondering if someone could point me in the right direction for building websites not with .NET technology (ie .aspx etc) that allow you to do something similar like master pages and content pages. For example in .NET you can create a master page and then have content pages which automatically "link" to the master page so a header or template that you have in the master page is automatically kept and the content pages are just "loaded" into the contentDiv. I hope I'm making myself clear enough. One way I thought is maybe you create index.html and then all your links etc and header and footer and in the middle put a div. Then you can use javascript to set the contentDiv to whatever page you want with an iframe? Is that the correct approach? Thanks, SS Hi, Wonder if you can help please. I have a long established ASP page called carkeys.asp - which does not work on my new Linux hosting (whoops should have know that). Before I change back to a windows platform is there anyway this page can be bounced to the replacement page at carkeys.html? The .asp page is well ranked with google and I would like its statistics to be directed to the new html page. I have code for the re-direction, but the page cannot be viewed to get this far. http://www.lockcity.co.uk/carkeys.asp > http://www.lockcity.co.uk/carkeys.html Many thanks for any help you can give Abi As I said in my introduction I have been dragged out of to produce 2 websites which is not my usual area of IT business. I have used MS Visual Web Developer 2008/IIS because that is what I have and I am having trouble with a small piece of code: <table> <tr> <td> <img src="Images/RSAshed.jpg" alt="Image not found" /> <img src="images/RSAstore.jpg" alt="Image not found" /> <img src="images/RSAwarehouse.jpg" alt="Image not found" /> </td> </tr> </table> With IIS Firefox displays 3 images horizontally across the page, but when this is uploaded to the Namesco host I get: http://www.mohairmarketing.org.uk/page4.html i.e. one image and two of 'image not found'. We have a Mandriva Linux file server so I have loaded the pages into Apache and get the same problem. Can anyone tell me what is the problem please. It seems that it may be wise to transfer production to Linux. I have tried Amaya but my eyesight is pretty poor and a cannot read the very faint coloured text. It would be preferable if the code was changed so that it works on all platforms. Thank you in advance. Malcolm Hi, This is a strange problem. I have a small personal website written in UTF-8, which I have indicated with the Content-Type tag in the head, as you may verify. Nontheless, Firefox (at least, haven't tried any other browser) misinterprets and renders the page in ISO-8859-1, leading to the misrendered characters under item 5 under "Documents". As Firefox's "page info" dialog tells me, the Content-Type tag is recognized but the encoding is still ISO-8859-1. Viewing the page locally works fine, same with every other server I have tried. Why? Can this sort of setting be overridden by the server? Hey all! We seem to be having an issue with something. We changed the nameservers for a domain to a different hosting company and made up a new site for that host. Everything went fine. When I view the site on my computer the new site is there as it should be. However on my friend's computer it's still pulling up the old site with the old host, even though we've cleared out all the cookies, cache, etc. Sometimes the new site will pop up for a bit, then the old site shows up again, only on his computer. We're both going through the same internet service provider and I can't think of a single reason why his computer would be doing that. Any ideas? I have no clue what to title this. Forgive me. Here is my situation. I have a .zip file full of data that I am trying to sell online. I want customers to go to my site, read about the product, and then click BUY NOW. It will take you to AlertPay's page, where you can submit your payment information. After that, I have set it up to return you to a confirmation page which is on my sever. http://myservice.com/thank-you-for-your-order.html On this page, I'll have a link to download the file. The problem is, I don't want people passing out my link "http://myservice.com/thank-you-for-your-order.html" and going directly to the page and download the data without paying for it first. Is there a way that I can restrict people from viewing any one page on my site, if they did not come from a particular inbound server like alertpay.com first? Didn't know if the page could detect what link the viewer came from and push them away... at least with standard HTML code. Just curious... I know how to put code into the site so that it doesn't appear in search engines, but I need to prevent people from bookmarking the page and sending it to friends who refuse to pay. Thanks. There are download managers (such as DAP, etc.) which can download parts of files from different mirrors and assemble them on the same pc. Your users will need one of these installed to download the file, or you could send them your own download manager. If using a ready made download manager they'll need to enter the urls of the two mirrors of the file. Hey guys, I'm managing this website that my boss created. I'm a devoted Dreamweaver user and she created it HTML style. I need help because I can't figure out why it's not showing up in Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Netscape. It shows up in Safari, but that's not going to satisfy our client. Here's the url: http://www.kwph.com it's the logo under the About Us section. Thank you for any help Jordan Can anyone suggest a good html editor for linux? i am looking for something that has code/element shortcuts, is not a WYSIWYG editor and has a preview function. Thanks. First Post! Yeah now thats out of the way... I've just designed a Linux Tutorial site for a friend who is a Linux fanatic. However, I've used Arial as the font. When the site is viewed in Linux (I think its the Mozilla browser) it appears in this odd font. I was wondering if anyone knows which fonts Linux broswers display best - so I can assign it to the 2nd choice in the CSS. Arial being number1 for Windows browsers, then going to the 2nd choice if its Linux and it cant find the Windows font. Any help whatsoever would be appreciated. Thanks! hello, can anyone here tell me why there is so little html software for linux users? I bought a linux pc and discovered that Adobe do not offer dreamweaver in linux. There is also no other html editors I can find of any worth in linux. does anyone know any? Hey there, I'm trying to code my site for not only IE8 but also IE6/7 versions. I can't seem to figure out how to download the earlier versions without either getting rid of IE8 or just not being able to download them. Is it possible for me to have IE6, 7, and 8 on one computer? Thanks, ~C-Style~ Hi all, newbie here. I'm trying to make an "interactive" music video where a user clicks images which trigger pop up windows playing youtuve videos to appear. My problem is keeping the pop up youtube videos "on top" while retaining the user's ability to click on the interface of the original webpage (to trigger more videos). any ideas? Any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks in advance I have to write a html code where i have to jump to 2 urls on click a object. presently i have written a code to jump to one url only "<a href=\"http://bodev:8080/OpenDocument/opendoc/openDocument.jsp?iDocID=AdknCqrhpYZKkFBzpe1wbsU&sIDType=CUID&sType=wid&sRefresh=N&sWindow=New\" title=\"\" target=\"_self\" nav=\"doc\">"+"Click State"+"</a>" When I click the object with text Click State, a new window pops ups with url. So, the requirement is now to pop open 2 windows when i click Click state The first url is as above and the second code is "<a href=\"http://bodev:8080/OpenDocument/opendoc/openDocument.jsp?iDocID=AYhtqwsujalMpBHSjfT0hF0&sIDType=CUID&sType=wid&sRefresh=N&sWindow=New\" title=\"\" target=\"_self\" nav=\"doc\">"+[State]+"</a>" Note: My program embeds these codes, so i need to use <a href> and </a> Popup Windows: The Basics We'll begin the tutorial by creating a basic popup window. The technique described here addresses all the major issues in popups. The popup always comes to the front. Different links can target the same popup. The code is simple and easily modified. Everything for the rest of the turorial is a variation on the theme described here. The code in this page creates a popup that is opened from a link. In this section we'll show the code with just the minimal description you need to get it going. First, copy this script into the <HEAD> section of your page: HTML Code: <SCRIPT TYPE="text/javascript"> <!-- function popup(mylink, windowname) { if (! window.focus)return true; var href; if (typeof(mylink) == 'string') href=mylink; else href=mylink.href; window.open(href, windowname, 'width=400,height=200,scrollbars=yes'); return false; } //--> </SCRIPT> For now we'll skip the details of how the script works, and move to the next step. The script above opens the popup, but something needs to run the script. The most common situation is that the script is run when the user clicks on a link. A link like the following would run the script: HTML Code: <A HREF="popupbasic.html" onClick="return popup(this, 'notes')">my popup</A> Most of the link is as usual. The URL of the page being linked to is in the HREF attribute. We've added an additional attribute called onClick. Copy the code as it is into your link, with only a small modification. The second argument of the popup() -- 'notes' -- indicates name of the popup window. Every popup window should have its own unique name. Be sure to put the name in single quotes (''). So if you want to name the popup 'stevie' then this would be the code: HTML Code: <A HREF="popupbasic.html" onClick="return popup(this, 'stevie')">my popup</A> Read This Next Part Or You'll Go Insane Trying to Figure Out Why Your Popup Doesn't Work A small but crucial point is often overlooked. The command in onClick must begin with return or the script won't work. Be sure to start the command with return like this: HTML Code: onClick="return popup(this, 'notes')" And don't put a space in the page name between the single quotes. If you do, the link will act just like a regular link. Popup Windows: From an Image Map In our first variation we'll open the popup from an image map instead of from a regular anchor. We'll use the same script as from our first example. With that script, an <AREA ...> tag in an image map can be made to open a popup in exactly the same way as an <A ...> tag: HTML Code: <MAP NAME="index"> <AREA HREF="mypopup.html" ALT="My Popup" COORDS="10,10,120,120" SHAPE=RECT onClick="return popup(this, 'gloss')"> <AREA SHAPE=RECT ALT="Your Popup" COORDS="140,10,180,50" HREF="yourpopup.html" onClick="return popup(this, 'gloss')"> <AREA SHAPE=DEFAULT NOHREF> </MAP> <IMG SRC="mymap.gif" HEIGHT=130 WIDTH=190 ALT="Image Map Example" BORDER="0" USEMAP="#index"> Popup Windows: Opening Automatically In the first two examples (Popup Windows: The Basics and Popup Windows: From an Image Map) the popup is opened when the user clicks on something. In this example the popup opens automatically. We'll use the same script as in the first example. Copy this script in the <HEAD> section of your page: HTML Code: <SCRIPT TYPE="text/javascript"> <!-- function popup(mylink, windowname) { if (! window.focus)return true; var href; if (typeof(mylink) == 'string') href=mylink; else href=mylink.href; window.open(href, windowname, 'width=400,height=200,scrollbars=yes'); return false; } //--> </SCRIPT> This time, instead of running the script from a link we'll run it from the onLoad attribute of the <BODY ...> tag. HTML Code: <BODY onLoad="popup('autopopup.html', 'ad')"> The command in onLoad is run when the document is finished loading. Like in our previous example, the command runs popup(), but this time the first argument for popup() is a little different. In the previous example we put this, meaning the link itself, and the script got the URL from the link. In this case there is no link so we pass the actual URL to open. So in our example we put 'autopopup.html'. Popup Windows: From a Form For our next variation on the popup theme we're going to open the popup from a form. In this example we're going to change the script around. The following script is custom designed for opening a popup from a form. It works with forms that use both POST and GET. Copy the following script exactly as-is into the <HEAD> section of your document: HTML Code: <SCRIPT TYPE="text/javascript"> <!-- function popupform(myform, windowname) { if (! window.focus)return true; window.open('', windowname, 'height=200,width=400,scrollbars=yes'); myform.target=windowname; return true; } //--> </SCRIPT> Now we'll add some code so that the popup opens when the user submits the form. Add an onSubmit attribute to <FORM ...> tag: HTML Code: <FORM METHOD=POST ACTION="../cgi-bin/mypopupcgi.pl" onSubmit="popupform(this, 'join')"> The first argument for popupform() is always this, meaning the form itself. The second argument, 'join' in this case, is a unique name for the popup. Popup Windows: Targeting the Opener Once a popup window has been created, linking from the popup back to the main window (i.e. the window which opened the popup) is a little trickier than might be expected. The problem is that the main window doesn't have a "name" the way the popup window does. Fortunately, JavaScript provides an answer in the form of opener. To create links in the popup window that target back to the main window, first put this JavaScript in the <HEAD> of the popup page: HTML Code: <SCRIPT TYPE="text/javascript"> <!-- function targetopener(mylink, closeme, closeonly) { if (! (window.focus && window.opener))return true; window.opener.focus(); if (! closeonly)window.opener.location.href=mylink.href; if (closeme)window.close(); return false; } //--> </SCRIPT> A link that uses this script looks like this: HTML Code: <A HREF="rbex.html" onClick="return targetopener(this)">my page</A> Popup Windows: Closing When They Go to the Opener In the previous example the link in the popup targets the main page, but the popup stays open in the background after the user clicks on the link. In this page we'll set the link so that it closes the popup after the click. targetopener takes three parameters. The first is always this, meaning the link itself. The second and third parameters are optional and default to false. (Notice we don't use them in the example above, we'll get to them shortly.) The second parameter indicates if the popup should close. The third is if the link should actually send the opener to the linked resource, or if the opener should just get the focus regardless of what its current page is. The third parameter provides a safe way to close the popup after closing, but still having a link to an existing page if the window isn't actually a popup (such as if the user found the page through a search engine). When the user clicks on the link, targetopener checks if the browser has the focus command (a few older browsers don't) and if the current window was opened by another window. If these conditions are true, then the opener window gets the focus, the opener is directed to the referenced URL, and the script returns false. Because the function returns false, the link does not go on to the URL (the script has already done that). Note that the link which targets the opener is a little different than the link that opened the popup window to begin with. In this link, onClick says "return goOpener(this)"... the links on the previous pages did not use return. By default, the popup window stays open but is in the background. If you want the popup to close after going back to the opener, add a second parameter of true to the targetopener function call: HTML Code: <A HREF="rbex.html" onClick="return targetopener(this,true)">main page</A> Hi. I'm trying to replicate an old app that used to be in the App Store. It let you log into xbox.com, and take your friends list and various other info, and put a nice interface over it. Right now I'm having real trouble even logging into xbox.com, or live.login.com. You can see my webapp here. For some reason it doesn't work. I even tried using all the HTML which doesn't seem to work either. Does anybody know how to fix this, OR another way to login to xbox.com to get the info. Thanks. hi guys, I am new here and my friend says he always gets help when he comes on this forum so I will follow in his foot steps. My problem is this; I am building my website and I have come up to a wall. I have 4 different playlist that I want to come out on a pop up window which I already configured and all but I can't seem to get my links to open in the same pop up window. I want to be able to click on a link and it opens it in the same pop up that is already there. Is that possible. This is the code that I am using: <p>These are our current playlists:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href='media/gospel playlist/gospel player.html' target="_blank" onClick="window.open('media/gospel playlist/gospel player.html', '', 'scrollbars=auto, menubar=no, height=500, width=400, resizable=no, toolbar=no, location=no, status=no'); return false;">GOSPEL</a></p> <p><a href='media/hiphop playlist/hiphop player.html' target="_blank" onClick="window.open('media/hiphop playlist/hiphop player.html', '', 'scrollbars=auto, menubar=no, height=500, width=400, resizable=no, toolbar=no, location=no, status=no'); return false;">HIPHOP - R&B - REGGAE</a></p> <p><a href='media/zouk playlist/zouk player.html' target="_blank" onClick="window.open('media/zouk playlist/zouk player.html', '', 'scrollbars=auto, menubar=no, height=500, width=400, resizable=no, toolbar=no, location=no, status=no'); return false;">ZOUK - KONPA - LATIN</a></p> <p><a href='media/jazz playlist/jazz player.html' target="_self" onClick="window.open('media/jazz playlist/jazz player.html', '', 'scrollbars=auto, menubar=no, height=500, width=400, resizable=no, toolbar=no, location=no, status=no'); return false;">LOVE SONGS - JAZZ - BLUES</a></p> <p> </p> </blockquote> Pleas help out if possible.. Thanks a bunch Hey guys. One of my pages is full of hundreads of pictures. When you click them in makes them bigger, but it makes them bigger on the same page. Does anyone have anything that can make any link that is clicked on that page open in a new window. Heres the site. www.jimandanne.net/pictures.htm help would be great, Thanks I have been working on this thing forever!! I am in desperate need of help!! I currently am running an HTA file called h1.hta and I want to be able to open another HTA called h2.hta that will take in parameters and close the current HTA. I am using this snippet of code to open the new h2.hta(parameters) within my current h1.hta : nextpage = h2.hta?trial=2&condition=1 //vbscript set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") WshShell.Run(nextpage) When I run this, I get a "File not Found" error. I believe it's because the file in the system is entitled h2.hta and when i send it with the parameters, it does not recognize. My question is how do I go to another hta file with parameters??? Hello! I am in need of some assistance with pop-up windows... Thisis an example of the code I am currently using for pop-up windows (below), it opens a new window that displays an image and it works great!... Only now I require the same format (including the text underneath), only instead of having the pop-up windows display images, I need them to display a body of text in html format.... Can anyone please assist me with this? Thank you!!! <center><html> <head> <style type="text/css"> div.img { margin:2px; border:0px solid #0000ff; height:auto; width:auto; float:left; text-align:center; } div.img img { display:inline; margin:3px; border:1px solid #ffffff; } div.img a:hover img { border:1px solid #0000ff; } div.desc { text-align:center; font-weight:normal; width:120px; margin:2px; } </style> </head> <body> <div class="img"> <a target="_blank" href="klematis_big.htm"> <img src="klematis_small.jpg" alt="Klematis" width="200" height="150" /> </a> <div class="desc">Add a description of the image here</div> </div> <div class="img"> <a target="_blank" href="klematis_big.htm"> <img src="klematis_small.jpg" alt="Klematis" width="200" height="150" /> </a> <div class="desc">Add a description of the image here</div> </div> <div class="img"> <a target="_blank" href="klematis_big.htm"> <img src="klematis_small.jpg" alt="Klematis" width="200" height="150" /> </a> <div class="desc">Add a description of the image here</div> </div> </body> </html> |