Why? Why? Why???????

[artsapimp]

I have made a number of pages which work fine in IE. They all used to work in Netscape also...

I had to format the server and reinstalled all files from a backup tape. All of this went fine and it is all working the same as it was when using IE. Using Netscape I get a 404 error.

I know! It's impossible. What would cause this to give me a 404 error?

Thanks for any help

[Xayd]

I've seen this before, and I don't know either. Last time was on a Solaris server running Apache, 1.3.3 (I think), and Netscape simply would not find an image in the root directory of a site. IE would find them fine, but no version of Netscape would.

Who knows, I never found out why.

Xayd

[artsapimp]

Thanks for the reply. At least I know I'm not going crazy!

I am running IIS4 on the server hosting this office and running IIS5 on my laptop. When I copy the files to my laptop and try to view it in netscape it works. I then try to connect to the IIS4 machine and it doesn't work.

I am really at a loss here. Please tell me something to try.

[artsapimp]

With a litte help from a co-worker I figured it out. I feel really stupid for not getting it earlier, but incase you are in my situation someday here's what happened.

I use frames because in our reference pages we need a static menu accross the top of the page for quick access to all information. The top frame would load correctly, but the bottom one wouldn't.

A co-worker suggested I try to pull up the page without using frames (I should have done this already...). Even though it's obviously going to give the same 404 error I decided to try it.

It immediately redirects the URL to the old link for the stylesheet being used. The link was for "/folder1/style.css" instead of "/folder2/style.css". The URL was supposed to be going to "/folder2/page.asp" but was redirecting it to "/folder1/style.css" to give me the error.

I don't know if anyone will understand my explaination, but that was the cause. I simply referenced the correct folder in the stylesheet reference and it worked.

[Xayd]

Makes sense. Netscape apparently assumes different document roots if they're not specified. I guess that's why they told me to put the full path to everything in HTML 101.

If only I weren't so hard headed...

Xayd

[Isadora]

I'm prepping to redesign my site. Full path names- Got it.