Cannot simulate Web Site??

[Dinosaur]

Although I am not good at such activities, I created and now maintain a Web Site for a local Bridge club.

I have a copy of the Folders, sub folders, & files from that site on my hard disk. In the past, I could invoke Windows Explorer and Double Left click on an HTML File resulting in my AOL Browser displaying the site from my hard disk.

Recently, when I try to simulate the site, I view a Web Page simulation, but when I click on links to subsiduary pages, nothing happens. This used to work.

Does anyone here have some thots on what is wrong?

Perhaps I should figure out how to get the Internet Explorer Browser to do the simulating instead of the AOL Browser.

[Paul Komski]

Perhaps I should figure out how to get the Internet Explorer Browser to do the simulating instead of the AOL Browser.
Assuming you have a file called index.htm or index.html in the root of your "web" (the collection of copied folders and sub-folders) and that none of the pages are scripts such as .php or .asp pages then you should be able to right click on the index.htm file (or any htm/html file) and choose which program or browser to open it with.

AOL of course may do things oddly but I suspect that it will be the same when you try any browser.

Are you getting a blank page or any response or do the links just do nothing at all when you click on them.

Are you using relative links so that none of the href part of the url contains http://domainname/ ??

You can of course also setup a web server on your PC (IIS is already available on WinXP for example) and then access it by entering //localhost/ into the address bar or //computername/ into the address bar of any of the computers on a LAN.

[Dinosaur]

Paul Komisky: Thanks for your reply.

For some reason, the problem has gone away. As far as I know, I did nothing to fix it. Perhaps some automatic Windows or AOL update fixed the problem.

[Paul Komski]

AO(HEL)L are uniquely unpredictable and proprietary. Possibly you cache got emptied manually or automatically - that's all I can think of for now. Always try the refresh button with such problems but even then actual cache-emptying may be necessary.