Funny Default Template Error.

[gibbergibb]

Hello All.
Please could someone help me with a strange problem I have with the default templates in V7 of Actinic.
Basically Google is finding the www.topgear.co.uk/acatlog page howver this page is a completely different layout from the rest of the modded site (It looks like an original actinic template).
Every other section works correctly as the home page www.topgear.co.uk.
Its a strange one, and I have been working on the Act_Primary and Act_Primary Alt files - The Act_Primary has the correct template, but the Act_PrimaryAlt page has the incorrect template. Can anyone suggest how I need to modify this page to solve the error.
Thanks in advance.
James
Top Gear

[leehack]

Check the page name you have for the shop top and make sure there is no redirect in place. Also check the template applied to the shop top page.

[gibbergibb]

Hello All.
I have now solved this by changing the Alternate Default Template in Actinic itself to Act_Primary and all is fine.
Thanks everyone.

[pinbrook]

Do you have an index.html file in every folder? this often stops this type of error (as Lee said - what is your pagename for shop top?)

Personally i think there should be a message within actinic that pops up when anyone changes the shop top page name - i am not sure if the googlefeed creates an entry to acatalog without an html file or if it is simply creating alink to a page just using the folder name.

Failsafe method to avoid unnecessay 404s
never create links using folders name only - ie domain/acatalog use domain/acatalog/page.html
always have index.html in every folder - this is also a security measure to as it effectively hides a folders contents from nosey parkers :cool:

[gibbergibb]

Got to upgrade this site to v9. But it will wreck the custom templates, so will do some testing first before I dive in.

thanks again for all your help.

James