How to get rid of leading slash?

michu · Aug 8, 2010

I am using the Web Page format to create my mailings. MBM is placing a leading slash in front of all the links on that webpage. For example, they all have "/http://yada.com/yada" for each link. How can I get rid of this leading slash?

Thanks so much!

edit: It works fine without the tracking (except the mailto:link doesn't want to popup in preview mode), but with tracking on, it has the "/" before all the links and sticks "/http://yada.com/" before the "mailto:"

Of course, these links are "not found" by the server.

stanbusk · Aug 9, 2010

What URL do you have for MLM in your preferences? '/'?

michu · Aug 9, 2010

http://server.com/lm/lm.php

Thanks for your reply.

stanbusk · Aug 9, 2010

Is http://server.com/lm/lm.php the real URL or a dummy URL?

michu · Aug 11, 2010

dummy. I didn't think posting my mailserver on here was probably a wise idea. Should I?

stanbusk · Aug 12, 2010

It is not necessary. If you copy and paste that URL to your web browser what do you get?

michu · Aug 13, 2010

Error - You forgot to provide the command parameter: &cmd=command

stanbusk · Aug 13, 2010

That's the correct reply for current version. This is really weird. Have you tried to more MaxBulk Mailer preferences to your desktop?

michu · Aug 13, 2010

I'm sorry. I don't quite know what you mean. Could you give me specific instructions to try?

stanbusk · Aug 16, 2010

The idea is to move the preferences to your desktop so MaxBulk Mailer creates new one. The preferences are stored in a file.

Mac OS X:
~/Library/Preferences/Maxprog/MaxBulk Mailer/Preferences

Windows 7:
C:\Users\<your_account_name>\AppData\Roaming\Maxprog\MaxBulk Mailer\MaxPrefs.ini

Windows XP:
C:\Documents and Settings\<your_account_name>\Application Data\Maxprog\MaxBulk\MaxPrefs.ini

Once you have done that you will have to enter the preferences again.

michu · Aug 16, 2010

Thanks so much for the explanation. I did that and know I get:

The requested URL /http://cellistics.com/http%3A%2F%2Fcellistics.com%2Fcarrier_retail_packs was not found on this server.

when I click a link on the page.

stanbusk · Aug 16, 2010

What is the source of your message?

michu · Aug 16, 2010

The web server, I assume.

The email I'm sending has http://cellistics.com/wholesale in the first line. It displays fine although it says the css link is wrong. It has a broken link message at the top that has "http://cellistics.com/wholesalethemes/cellphone/style.css" (The one that NEEDS a leading slash doesn't have it.)

Then any of the links on the page are broken with a leading slash in front. ie...

/http://cellistics.com/http%3A%2F%2Fcellistics.com%2Fmailto%3Asales%40cellistics.com%3Fsubject%3DA%2520Stock%2520Inquiry

/http://cellistics.com/http%3A%2F%2Fcellistics.com%2Fparts

/http://cellistics.com/http%3A%2F%2Fcellistics.com%2Fcarrier_retail_packs

/http://cellistics.com/http%3A%2F%2Fcellistics.com%2Fcases_holsters

This only happens when I use tracking. If I turn off the tracking, the links work as expected.

stanbusk · Aug 16, 2010

Tracking add the MLM URL to all your URL. What I don't understand is why it hads a '/' only rather than the whole MLM URL. I need to see your message source and try to reproduce here.

michu · Aug 16, 2010

<HTML xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<HEAD>
<BASE HREF="http://cellistics.com/wholesale">
<title>Cellistics - Wholesale</title>
<meta name="description" content="Wholesale"/>
<meta name="keywords" content="Wholesale"/>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<meta name="robots" content="index"/>
<link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" href="themes/cellphone/images/favicon.ico" />
<meta http-equiv="pragma" content="no-cache"/>
<meta http-equiv="cache-control" content="no-cache"/>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="themes/cellphone/style.css" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Cellistics" href="http://cellistics.com/feed/news_headlines_en.xml" />

<script type="text/javascript" src="lib/javascript/prototype.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="lib/javascript/scriptaculous/scriptaculous.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="themes/cellphone/fontsize.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="themes/cellphone/langnavbar.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="core_modules/frontendEditing/js/frontEditing.js"></script>

<style type="text/css">@import url(core_modules/frontendEditing/css/style.css) all;</style>


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<div id="header_links">
<form action="index.php" method="get">
<input value="search" name="section" type="hidden"/>
<ul>
<li><a href="#" onclick="javascript:setFontSize(0.6);return;" title="reduce font size"><img src="themes/cellphone/images/a.gif" alt="reduce font size" border="0" /></a><a href="#" title="regular font size" onclick="javascript:resetFontSize ();return;"><img src="themes/cellphone/images/aa.gif" alt="regular font size" border="0" /></a><a href="#" onclick="javascript:setFontSize(0.9);return;" title="increase font size"><img src="themes/cellphone/images/aaa.gif" alt="increase font size" border="0" /></a></li>
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/* <![CDATA[ */
(function() {//don't pollute global namespace
var referer = (document.referrer) ? escape(document.referrer) : '';
var c = 0;
var v = navigator.appName;
if (v != 'Netscape') { c = screen.colorDepth; }
else { c = screen.pixelDepth; }

var stats_data = {
'mode': 'script',
'referer': referer,
'pageId': '290',
'screen': screen.width + 'x' + screen.height,
'color_depth': c
};
if ('' != '') {
stats_data['searchTerm'] = '';
}

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new Ajax.Request( "/core_modules/stats/counter.php", {
method: 'get',
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jQuery(function(){
jQuery.get("/core_modules/stats/counter.php",
stats_data
);
});
}
else { // no known js framework
var script_opener = '<script type="text/javascript" ';
var script_closer = '\x3c'+'/sc'+'ript>';
document.write(script_opener + ' src="/core_modules/stats/counter.php?mode=script&referer='+referer+'&pageId=290&screen=' + screen.width + 'x' + screen.height + '&color_depth=' + c + '" >' + script_closer);
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stanbusk · Aug 17, 2010

I have pasted your code to a new MaxBUlk Mailer document, sent it to me and everything is fine. I don't have any'/' pasted in front of every URL. I guess there is something wrong with your document. Would it be possible to get that document?

michu · Aug 17, 2010

I've created a new one several times for testing, but the slashes still remain. It's a blank document with http://cellistics.com/wholesale in the first line. Everything else is empty. This was done on Mac OSX Snow Leopard.

michu · Aug 17, 2010

Screenshots attached of the previews. One is the preview of the file itself with the broken css link. The other is a screenie of what I receive after clicking a link.

stanbusk · Aug 17, 2010

Please open a support ticket and attach your MaxBulk Mailer document to it.

michu · Aug 17, 2010

Oh... and one more thing... if I paste the code and send using html, it works... just not in "webpage" mode. I was wanting to do webpage mode to make it easy for my husband that doesn't know how to "fiddle" with things and wants everything "quick and dirty". I intended to setup a basic file with the text stuff in it and let him paste his web pages in the top lines and send. Anything much more than that renders him pretty much helpless.

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