I have deleted a page from my site pages and I can still visit it if I type it's url in... Why is this?

I had this same thing last week.

I had deleted a test page called 'a' but it got listed by google - the page could still be reached live but it had been offically deleted and was no where to be found in my site account.

Weird.

Maybe its a bug.

Lee.

Yeah I republish it almost daily...

I've even published it since I asked this question.

If content on the page caused it not to delete, then that means I have some content like that on at least 2 pages... I can currently see 2 pages, I've deleted, and if I can remember some more of my old urls, I bet I'll find those too.

I just checked one of them on a browser I do not normally use, and that browser brought the page up too...

Well you might want to e-mail Yola about that. You can email them at support@yola.com Hope this helps!

Also, I had that happen and eventually (couple weeks-month) It could not be found :) may just take some patience :)

are you sure you're viewing your live site and not a cache? When google indexes pages, they also create a cache of the page so that as long as it's still indexed in google, the user can generally view how that page looked a week ago even if it's been deleted.

He's right.

http://rtb2walks.co.uk/test2.php

Is a page I deleted days ago, and yes I have republished (several times). Also I know it's not a cashe thing as I can access it from my wife's laptop which would never have accessed this page.

Rob.

maybe yola sites aren't publishing to the internet world properly and should be looked into. Since it does seem more than one person is having this issue.

Yola_User_A

I read this issue and knew I had deleted a test page, since http://www.rtb2walks.co.uk/test.php still exists, and given the way that I name my test pages it didn't take much to give it a go.

Perhaps the deletd page functionality is a logical delete rather than a physical one.

Rob.b

I've been thinking about this.

If the live sites are hosted on a different server to the dev (editor) and test (preview) environments. (As seems to be indicated by the fact that the live environment is case sensitive, and the other two are not.) Then it comes down to what is delivered into live.

This suggests the following:
1. Pages that exist in test (preview) but not in live.
2. Pages that exist in both test and live but are not the same (i.e.changes).

This is easily implemented if the delivery is controlled from the dev/test server (fair enough that's where the make live buttton is) by delivering everything from test into live every time. If it is a simple deliver everything every time it also means that once delivered it's in the live environment for good.

Some kind of scheduled job (perhaps daily) on the live server to check what is on the dev/test server should be able to sort this out. I have several korn shell scripts on my production servers that maintain local files based on the contents of other Unix and Wintel servers (via ftp and sftp as required). So it is possible.

Rob

Sorry can't let this fade into obscurity, it's too imprtant (in my view).

Hi any news, this is rally quite a serious issue, can you provide a work around until such time as your developers/engineers get around to loking at this issue.

Thanks in advance.

Tried that does not fix it, nearly a month now since I deleted test2.php and i can still acc on a HP-UX system from work, it's stil there.ess it;

Clear cache and log off won't fix everything unfortunately.

Tried it on a HP-UX system from work, it's stil there.

OK new issue if I try and edit my reply, I do not have permission! Any ideas why?

Sorry but of late nearly everything I try on Yola either packs up or does not work consistantly.this is geting silly!!!!

I have just found out that this > "bug" < also affects my search engine, even though many of my pages were deleted my search engine is still able to find the old supposedly deleted pages and therefore posts them as current search results in my search engine.

Monique.

I think some one is misleading you. I have just republished, and the page I used to test this 8 days ago (it had been deleted a couple of days before that) is still available if I type in the correct URL!

See for your self:

http://rtb2walks.co.uk/test2.php

Rob.

*Waives* Hey guys, does anyone see me, I feel like I'm being overlooked, ignored... IDK...

But anyway, can I just ask 3 more questions, I do see my site now in IE so disregard that, but I do still see my old pages, am I doing something wrong? Or do I just stop updating and go ahead and totally unpublish my whole site, clear some kind of cache, and then republish it again to get rid of the pages, and if I do unpublish and republish, will this affect anything else?

Can you delete them from this thread after I post them???

Great! Thanks : )

Ok, I know you guys are still working on this, but I just want to say that I probably will be creating new pages with my old links, so that I can at least control the way they look, instead of having the old deleted ones still on my site... If the old urls have to be there, I at least need to them to look like I choose for them to look, and not how they looked upon deletion... I will wait a little while before I do this so that I can see if yola has fixed the old url problem, but I will not be able to wait too long... Thanks!

YAYYY!!! Woohooo!!!!!! Those two are gone, hope I don't have anymore I can't remember! Will you have to do this each time???

Thanks Yola : )

Hey you guys... : (
I just got finished reimplementing an old html script I made for my website a little while back... I decided to use it again, so I changed the old link names to the new ones I've renamed them as, but one got pass me I didn't catch it at first, so when I went to check my link flow... Guess what, I clicked a link and it was old and I could still see one of my old deleted pages... Despite the two you've deleted for me, our old urls are still out there in internet land. What's with this?

Am I the only one who cares?

Ok, I just checked the search engines and i'm seeing most of my old links, I've got like 4 different site designs going around. OH MY GOODNESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is so incredibly bad!

I will compile a list and send them to you... May take a while.

Thanks

And... I don't think that will be all even of them when I do send it, but I will try.

Ok, I changed my mind, I will send you 13 links, but I can't sit here and compile all my old links, it's not going to be to good if I'm asked to do that right now. I'm seeing all my old links as I sit here and think about what they were and type them in, and it's soooooooooo frustrating.

Yola please fix this on your end by getting rid of pages we delete, am I crazy or when I delete a page, shouldn't it no longer exist, shouldn't if you type it in the browser should not be able to find it? Is it crazy to think that, or even just tell me what I am doing that makes this happen or can do to end it if it is somehow my fault! PLEASE

Should I unpublish my site and republish it, will that help me? I need this to end.

No, I deleted them a long time ago 3-4 weeks probably... I never use IE so I looked at them in that browser to see if they are still there and they are. Would doing that be something that would let you know they are still there? Because they would have never been pulled up in IE, therefore they wouldn't be in any "cache" correct?...
... I found a couple of the links through a search engine and it was not google and the others I just typed in to see if they were there.

I understand but If I keep seeing them I will be back...

Yola can't just delete mine as I remember them and send them the links and leave everyone else's out there and even mine that I do not remember.

I was just wondering if any of the people that had this problem made links to these pages on other non-deleted pages of their website. If so maybe the link still exists if it wasn't deleted properly. I noticed that when you delete the picture or text that you made into a link, it doesn't always delete the link.