Q: I have uploaded my flash site to a web server and now it’s getting stuck on loading! Please, help!
R: There may be several reasons for blocking the flash content from loading on your server.
First of all, please check the name of the “.SWF” file. – It must be the lowercase letters. If you are using a Windows server, you can create file names with no regard to upper or lower case. People can still view pages on their PC. If you are on a UNIX or another server that is case sensitive, then links that worked on your local PC will no longer work on the server. Thus, ” Header.htm” and ” header.htm” are two different files on a server.
Also, please check html code in the HTML file related to this flash media. The code should be as following:
width=”669″ height=”293″>
<param name=”movie” value=”flash/header.swf?button=0″>
<param name=”quality” value=”high”>
<param name=”menu” value=”false”>
<param name=”wmode” value=”transparent”>
<!–[if !IE]> <–>
<object data=”flash/header.swf?button=0″
width=”669″ height=”293″ type=”application/x-shockwave-flash”>
<param name=”quality” value=”high”>
<param name=”menu” value=”false”>
<param name=”wmode” value=”transparent”>
<param name=”pluginurl” value=”http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer”>
FAIL (the browser should render some flash content, not this).
</object>
<!–> <![endif]–>
</object>
Also, please check links assigned to buttons in the “.FLA” source file. These links should be lowercase as well. It’s better to follow this rule: always and without fail use lowercase for file names and links.