Bulk Assets

I’m using Cyberduck for ftp. It gave me this list of URLs:

http://ftp.wanamassa.us/davesofnjassets/LTDU_gallery/LTDU_IMGP1413_1202_TakingFlight .jpg
http://ftp.wanamassa.us/davesofnjassets/LTDU_gallery/LTDU_IMKP7299_2227_OnWater .jpg
http://ftp.wanamassa.us/davesofnjassets/LTDU_gallery/LTDU_K1FB2660_2227_FlockFlyBy .jpg
http://ftp.wanamassa.us/davesofnjassets/LTDU_gallery/LTDU_K1FD4348_2203_OnWater_600Square .jpg
http://ftp.wanamassa.us/davesofnjassets/LTDU_gallery/LTDU_K1FD4356_2203_OnWater_600 .jpg

Note: I’ve inserted a spurious space before the .jpg because the photos showed in the message instead of the urls.

When I tried just one of these as a hosted asset, it worked, but when I tried to add all these at once, I had the following experience:

  1. Blocs guessed that the separator was \n, but clicking the Add button did nothing.

  2. It occurred to me that perhaps I should try \r, and then clicking the Add button gave me an alert to the effect that No valid URLs were found.

  3. When the alert was dismissed, the Assets Manager showed circling arrows and has stayed in that state ever since.

Any advice? This is with Blocs 4.1.1 on the latest Big Sur OS on a MacBook Pro.

Thanks,

Dave

I think you will need to change those links and remove the ftp

http://my domain.com

Ideally you should be using a secure https anyway.

My honest advice would be to use Forklift 3 FTP if you do more than occasional web work. Something like this just works with no issues. It’s $29 normally but seems to pop up on sale from time to time.

The old version 2 is actually free, though I cannot be sure if it includes this feature.

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Thanks for your suggestions, but before I jump, there’s something weird happening here that has little or nothing to do with the ftp app I’m using. If I put a link to my site into a Facebook message, Facebook gets a 404 error.

as does this message system.

Perhaps I need to switch to a secure setup. I tried to do that the other day but got caught up in a vicious circle trying to remember the password; the password that Safari has on file doesn’t work. So, it might take me a while.

Dave

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Your input url is different from the canonical url. That’s why you are getting an error.

Redirect Path	
Input URL	arrow-right	http://wanamassa.us/davesofnjbirds/ghow.html
rel="canonical" Meta Tag	arrow-right	http://wanamassa.us/davesofnj/GHOW.html

On the other point you definitely want to be using https:// and make sure you set that correctly in the projects settings for the site url.

Thanks for that. At least I can see what’s happening now. I confess to not before ever hearing of a “canonical url”.

I’m guessing that the bulk asset importer is having the same problem; it seems odd that a url that works for an individual asset doesn’t work when part of a set for the bulk importer.

As for the https:// issue, I started working on that this afternoon only for my two grandkids to have a major row just as I was concentrating on the instructions. I decided to wait for a quieter time! Right now, one of them is doing his trombone practice, so I guess it’ll be tomorrow some time.

Thanks again,

Dave

I have not used Cyberduck in ages, so I cannot be sure here, but I think your problem was likely that Blocs was producing the site with the canonical link correctly for the final domain, however your test site is in a sub folder. That would surely trigger the not found error because it’s looking in the wrong place.

Canonical links are good for Seo. They tell Google to show your preferred version e.g https:// rather than http://www for example. I would also suggest selecting the option for clean urls, which always looks more professional.

For the secure SSL bit most web hosts now allow one click Lets Encrypt installs through the control panel that are free with auto renewal. If your web host wants to charge for these or makes it tricky I would honestly move away.