Thanx for the help. Here is an update. I've changed all the slashes to face the correct way. I have also put the web site onto my personal webspace provided by my isp. Here the problem. When I look at the site on my home page. http://www.llyssande.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ The title changes as I was expecting. However when I put the same page on the web server that is running apache the title dosen't show up and I just get the web address. Clive Dowler -----Original Message----- From: Nick Jones [mailto:nickj6282@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: 02 November 2005 11:26 To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [users@httpd] Help needed. --- Clive Dowler <llyssande@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello all, > > I have just taken on the job of > attempting to house my mothers > website for her. She orignally payed someone to > make the site for her but > she wasn't happy with the results, and fell back on > the fail safe of > emotionally blackmailing her youngest son into > attempting it. > > > > I have now, I think, got the web site to > her satisfaction (I > hope, although I'm always expecting that phone call > of, 'can you just do > this'). > > > > It has been a struggle for me as I'm dyslexic and > find most books in this > area very hard to read. :-( > > > > The site has been running, and tested , but now she > wants me to put it on to > some search engines. > > > > After several nights with my web pages for dummies > book, I think I know what > I need to do to get the search engines to pick the > website up. The first > being to give it a more meaningful title. This is > where I get stuck. I've > followed what the books told me to do and if I test > locally the Title > changes as I wanted. However once I try to look at > it via the web (using > apache as the server) the title dosen't show up and > I just get > www.finca-auroum.co.uk > <http://www.finca-auroum.co.uk/> instead, and not > the title 'Finca Auroum a Spanish house to rent for > the summer'. > > > > I am at the moment using a machine running win 98 > (yes I know its not ideal > but for the moment, it free, and I didn't have to do > to much to it to get it > to work, Eventually I'll swap it to Linux but that > will take some time to > read the relevant documents) > > > > Is there something in the config file I need to > change, or am I missing some > thing else.? > > > > Thank You. > > > > Clive Dowler > > > > P.S. Please post replyies in as plainer English as > possible as I find it > easier to read. The problem you are having is with your HTML, not with Apache. First, to change the title of the page, you need to edit what is inside the <title></title> tags inside your HTML header. Whatever you put in there becomes the title in the title bar of the browser and for the search engines. Next, none of the links off of your front page work. You're using a backslash "\" in your relative links rather than a forward slash "/". Backslashes are used internally by Windows to identify directories, so this probably works internally, but you need to use forward slashes in order for it to work on the web. HTH -Nick __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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