I am concerned about correcting a problem regarding publishing my website.

I have 5 websites and I accidently published 23 pages of one of them and forgot to change the FTP settings.

I have since corrected but wonder if I should republish the incorrect pages with a re-direct statement on them?

This URL is incorrect:
http://www.picnicproductsgalor.../LadderGolfGame.html

This is what should have been and has since been corrected:
http://www.sunnydayenterprises.../LadderGolfGame.html

What is the best procedure when this type of thing happens?

Thanks, Doug

I'd just republish the pages that are now incorrect -- this should be enough to correct them.

If your projects share the same project number, you may have also overwritten some images, so you'll need to republish those affected pages too.

Brucee,
I have already republished to correct the initial mistake.

My question at this point is. should I re-publish the wrong URL and html's with a redirect to the actual site, or just let them lie out there.
(23 pages with the wrong URL) Make any sense?

Maybe I shouldn't worry about them?

Thanks, Doug

If the incorrect pages are just spare pages with no links from the good site, then they cannot be accessed unless you know the page name. You should be able to FTP into your site and delete them with no ill effects. An alternate approach would be to log into your account, use your control panel's file manager to delete all your project HTML pages on the site, then republish everything.

I assume your worry is that a search engine will detect the pages and add them to a site, thus leading to confusion. A search engine should only be following links from page to page. Most hosts have security set to prevent direct access to the file structure of your site. So as long as the "extra" pages are not linked into your real site pages, there would be no way for a search engine to find them.

Hi Larry,
I don't think I will worry about it.


Thanks for your help!

Doug

Ho-ho, been there! No T-shirt though, darn!

I hate messy file structures and from your post I guess you do too.

If you have direct ftp access to the site (using Filezilla, free to download) then I'd just go in at a quiet time such as early sunday morning, blow away all the bad stuff or even the whole site and republish.

Control Panel file managers are ok on a file by file basis but FTP is much easier - just like Windows explorer, ctrl-click on all the bad ones and delete them in one go.

I never use SS's FTP tool, I just like the idea of being on control of what passes to my server and in the case of MY total incompetance having the safety net of not publishing live without a test first..

So I publish locally to my PC, test and then manually FTP to the server. This puts enough steps in the way that I should spot a goof up.

Thank you for the suggestions. I have corrected the problem and things are back to normal again....As normal as can be.

Take Care, Doug