When I click on a link, Claris Home Page displays the message "Sorry, Claris Home Page 3.0 can only follow links to local files."
All links in an HTML file contain a URL (Uniform Resource Locator), that identifies the file or other object that the link points to. There are two types of URLs: local URLs, which point to a file on the local machine (or to a file on the same machine as the document containing the link), and external URLs, which point to a file on a machine somewhere on the Internet. Claris Home Page can only process local URLs. To test a link to an external URL, open your document in a browser.
Tip You can view the URL for a link by opening your document in Edit Page mode and double-clicking the link to open the Link Editor. The URL appears in the URL text box in the Link Editor. External links begin with a sequence of letters followed by a colon, such as http:, ftp:, or mailto:. Local links do not have this prefix.
When I click on a link, Claris Home Page displays some other error message, such as "Sorry, unable to follow the URL "...", due to a disk error: no such file (error -43)."
This message appears when a link refers to a file that does not exist or that Claris Home Page can't find. The target file may have been accidentally moved or renamed, or may have been deleted. You should update the link's URL. This can be done as follows:
- Open the document containing the link.
If necessary, switch to Edit Page mode by choosing Edit Page from the View menu (Windows) or Window menu (Macintosh).
- Select the link.
- Choose Link to File from the Insert menu, or click the Browse Files button in the Link Editor.
- Select the target file for the link.
Note A common cause for this error is incorrect use of the "Use absolute pathnames" setting in the HTML Source tab of the Applications Options dialog box (Windows) or Preferences dialog box (Macintosh). This setting should normally not be enabled.
When I click on a link that points to an anchor in the same file, nothing happens. Or, when I click on a link that points to an anchor in another file, Claris Home Page takes me to the beginning of the other file, instead of taking me to the location of the anchor.
The anchor has been accidentally renamed or deleted, or the link's URL has been entered incorrectly. To correct this problem:
- Verify that the target anchor still exists (open the target document in Edit Page mode, and look for the anchor symbol).
If the anchor does not exist, choose Anchor from the Insert menu to re- create it.
- Select the target anchor, and choose Object Editor from the View menu (Windows) or Show Object Editor from the Window menu (Macintosh).
The Name text box in the Object Editor shows you the name of the anchor. If the name is incorrect, type the correct name in this box or select the name from the pop-up menu.
- Open the document containing the link in Edit Page mode.
- Select the link and open the Link Editor.
- If the anchor is local to this document, inspect the value in the URL text box. (It should begin with a pound sign followed by the name of the anchor.) Enter the correct anchor name in this box.
If the anchor is located on another Web page or site, the value in the URL text box should include the filename of the page or URL of the site followed by the pound sign (#) and the correct anchor name.