Why can't I view my published project?

Question

I am working in RH8, Windows 7
I am generating Air and that works fine.
When I also publish it looks like I am publishing but when I acess the html file all I get is a gray screen.
I have multiple projects that are arranged in a child parent relationship. When I publish I publish to a folder on my C drive. I publish all the child files to their separate mergedProjects folders. The parent file is published to the main folder. My file system looks like this
C
  91Publish
      parent.html files
      mergedProjects
         Child1folder
         Child2folder
When I publish I click Adobe AIR, select the Server option, select my folder in the server window, and click Republish all.
Is there something else I have forgotten?
I tried putting the parent files in the mergedProjects folder but that didn't work either.
Help is appreciated.
Pat

Answer 1

If you're publishing to a server rather than a folder on your PC, the server has a means of delivering those pages, probably IIS or Apache. Depending on which web server application you use as well as the name of any virtual directory you've created for your output, you'll construct the URL that your clients will use to access the content. You'll also need to know if your server is exposed to the internet or is just internal. You may have to add to the DNS as well.
For example, in my previous job, I used a server that was exposed to the internet. Even though the server's name was, as an example, SERVER16, my IT team had to create a DNS entry called SERVER16.COMPANY.COM so I could use this in my URL instead of the way I accessed it internally (
SERVER16\DIRECTORY\DEFAULT.HTM). My URL for clients was HTTP:
SERVER16.COMPANY.COM\DIRECTORY\DEFAULT.HTM. Note that the word DIRECTORY represents the name of the virtual directory I created for my content. There were actually a series of folders into which I navigated to locate my content, but the virtual directory creates a shortcut to the parent folder for my project's output.
Hope this helps. (And people think all we do is write...)
Becky
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On Jul 8, 2010 12:35 PM, lovejoyp <[email protected]> wrote:
I don't think I know what you mean by the URL. Right now it's an html file in a folder. Am I missing something here?
Pat