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I keep getting this error message when I try to get to FTP. It says it can't find the folder, and I have to have permission. This has happened everytime I've tried to log in for a couple weeks now.

I haven't done anything to change anything since the day I bookmarked it. How do I fix this?

thank you thank you thank you for taking the time to check my comic out and reporting back!!

I would like for the good community of Xepher to critique my webcomic. I've been getting some feedback from various people, but no one that really runs a webcomic.

So, you guys, I ask for your help! Please say anything you will about paneling, speech bubbles, art, plot (or lack thereof) colors, anything! This is to help improve what I can on my comic and to help  me take critique like a man! I'm trying not to make this a pitch as I am a 'Look and tell me what's wrong!' or, you know, if I'm doing anything right? ^^; Thank you so much, really, I appreciate it.

The basic idea of my comic 'Golden Crystals' is a fantasy epic sort of comic. There's no intentional punchline at the end of each page. The plot-arch as of now is in the middle of the first, so things are a bit confusing, but that's kinda where I want it, but you tell me what you think of that.

please please Please give me whatever feedback you can! I really appreciate it!

http://golden-crystals.xepher.net

Yeah, down with Geocites! I like your site, though the ads are nothing you can help. I would like to say that for future sites of yours to have a larger imbeded window (It's a pain to have to scroll down with a little bar >< )It would be nice to display your pictures larger, 'specially with the talented art you have! Love the green btw, lol

I see them, my firefox's pop-up blocker sucks XD Anyway they're most likely from the TAGBOARD, not xepher. I've been to many many sites wherein the tagboard is wired to give the site pop-up ads...much to the dismay of the webmaster...

You've really got to read the fine print when it comes to stuff like "free" tagboards.

Ah ha, thank you! I doubted it was Xepher. I bet it is my tagboard. I was just confused about where they were coming from. I will get to searching on an ad-less tagboard then. Thanks!

First: YEEAAAAHHH! I finally got everything working and connected!!

Moving on- I have ads on my site. I don't know how, because I know that Xepher is ad-free. I was just wondering if someone could look at my index file and see what I have done wrong.

I basically copied and pasted my HTML from my other site (On a host that was supported by ads) and I thought I had cleared out all the scripts for ads, but I guess not. I read, and reread my file carefully, even used the original layout file and redid everything and the weasel is still there!

I just want to say thank you in advance, the Xepher forum is the fastest help I've ever recieved and very patient. I'm very impressed with the help I get from the people who volunteer their time to answer questions I'm sure are trivial and have been answered for the 13,098,870 time. Thanks!

Don't worry, I get the same message sometimes. But it usually works ^^

I don't mind having to go in and push something. It's kind of gratifying, lol 'There, I'm done!'

Yeah, that's how I thought was the only way to see what had been done (beside loading files into FTP)

Yup. and it says something about being in 5 minutes. The error I recieve is on my actual webpage, a 500

Is that all it is? Just being finicky? Because it did it again, and if it is just finicky, then I'm glad it's not me, lol

You have to RESET THE FILE PERMISSIONS.

You do that by going to the main site (xepher.net) and singing in under the member's section, then once you're logged in you'll see a list of links to the left hand side, one of those will say like "Fix Permissions." When you click on that you'll see a button you'll need to push, and in about 5 minutes your site will be broadcasted.

I did do that. By 'privileges' I meant 'permissions'. I waited 5 minutes and came up with the error, then proceeded to write my previous post. But, I did it again, and hey, now it works. ^^ I guess the second times a charm, and it's my lucky day!

Make sure that if you're reading any php documentation, it's for PHP4 and/or PHP5.

The document I was reading from was an installation guide that unzipped with the PHP thing I downloaded. It included directions for 4 and 5 versions of it. But hopefully I won't have to worry anymore about that. ...please oh please oh please don't let me have to worry about that again! lol

No... just, as the directions at on the Help & Info page point out, you just have to save your page as a php file. So, instead of "index.html" save it as "index.php" PHP ignores everything outside of it's own tags, so the rest just gets treated like a normal web page. You add the snippet of code for the newsbox (note that it includes php tags) and that's the only bit that will be treated as PHP (unless you add more code on your own.)

Wow, I'm glad it was so simple. If you couldn't tell already, I tend to make mountains out of molehills. I changed my index to 'index.php', inserted the newsbox, ran it into FTP, fixed privileges and stuff. But when I bring up my page, it gives me a 500 error. Is there another obvious thing I'm missing?

....so.....all that reading, and rereading of slender font on the bright computer screen giving me headaches...fruitless?! Ugh, I'm beginning to think that I'm a waste of life, lol

How, then, do I make it so my index page is PHP compatable without installing stuff? I found PHPMyAdmin, I assume that's how? Is there something I can read on that or do I have to fiddle with it myself? Or is that it at all. Oh boy, now I'm just so confused, lol, my weekend was a lie, ha ha

Does this topic belong here?

Anyway, I'm sure this is a common question, and probably very trivial, but so far (to my knowledge) I've loaded PHP and unzipped, sorted, changed, folded, and pressed everything in the right places and everything is pretty much where it should be to work. But I'm hung up on one little detail.

To test if ActiveScript is working, create a new file, named test.wsf
   (the extension is very important) and type:


 



   Save and double-click on the file. If you receive a little window
   saying "Hello World!" you're done.
~ 'Install.txt' for PHP

So my question is this: 'New file' what? And how?

I tried notebook, and after that obvious failiar I had to go to bed because it was 4 in the morning and I was going crazy. Would someone please help me with this? I have no friends that understand computer speak.