Posting HTML from External Source With Contribute

[DrQuinn]

Hi,

Can anybody recommend how I can use Contribute to post preformed HTML
(prepared from an external source - eg, another editor) to a live website? I
can open the HTML file, but cannot then publish it. I found that it was
possible to drop the HTML into the folder C:\Program
Files\Macromedia\Contribute 3\Configuration\Content\StarterPages and then do
"New Page" - "Starter Web Pages" and this would successfully push the file up -
but with issues (it changes all relative links in the HTML into links pointing
at the C: drive locations).

It seems fairly mad that I can't use this application to post a pre-existing
HTML page to a site, given I have access rights and the ability to make HTML
pages from scratch. I guess its a security feature, but it would be very handy
if I could sidestep this.

Anybody any good ideas?

Thanks a lot,

Anthony.

[DrQuinn]

Hi,

Can anybody recommend how I can use Contribute to post preformed HTML
(prepared from an external source - eg, another editor) to a live website? I
can open the HTML file, but cannot then publish it. I found that it was
possible to drop the HTML into the folder C:\Program
Files\Macromedia\Contribute 3\Configuration\Content\StarterPages and then do
"New Page" - "Starter Web Pages" and this would successfully push the file up -
but with issues (it changes all relative links in the HTML into links pointing
at the C: drive locations).

It seems fairly mad that I can't use this application to post a pre-existing
HTML page to a site, given I have access rights and the ability to make HTML
pages from scratch. I guess its a security feature, but it would be very handy
if I could sidestep this.

Anybody any good ideas?

Thanks a lot,

Anthony.

[DrQuinn]

Hi,

Can anybody recommend how I can use Contribute to post preformed HTML
(prepared from an external source - eg, another editor) to a live website? I
can open the HTML file, but cannot then publish it. I found that it was
possible to drop the HTML into the folder C:\Program
Files\Macromedia\Contribute 3\Configuration\Content\StarterPages and then do
"New Page" - "Starter Web Pages" and this would successfully push the file up -
but with issues (it changes all relative links in the HTML into links pointing
at the C: drive locations).

It seems fairly mad that I can't use this application to post a pre-existing
HTML page to a site, given I have access rights and the ability to make HTML
pages from scratch. I guess its a security feature, but it would be very handy
if I could sidestep this.

Anybody any good ideas?

Thanks a lot,

Anthony.

[Avinash]

On Thu, 07 Sep 2006 16:02:02 +0000, DrQuinn wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Can anybody recommend how I can use Contribute to post preformed HTML
> (prepared from an external source - eg, another editor) to a live website? >
> Anybody any good ideas?
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Anthony.

Hi,

Contribute does not allow publishing of local drafts.
As you said enabling this would allow users from Contribute to publish
HTML pages and can be a serious security issue !!

Workaround would be to push the HTML page to server
and later on edit the page using Contribute.

Hope this helps !

-Avinash