"Redirect Problem"

Created My Own Problem!

I don't know if you have ever created a problem for yourself and not know exactly how you did it. That's what happened to me. Maybe this little bit of information will help you. I will try and make this as clear as I can.

I was setting up a capture page and using Aweber as my autoresponder. I have four list set up there. I created a webform for this one particular list, with the normal stuff for the autoresponder to perform. I got everything done and then I got the code for the webform and returned to my capture page.

I entered the information I wanted on the page and now it's all set and ready to go. On my fan page I have an icon that when clicked takes you to the capture page, so good so far. After I brought up the capture page I wanted to test it so I entered my name and Email address, clicked the submitt button, guess what happened, somewhere I had redirected to another capture page other than the one I wanted.

I'm no expert at this thing believe me. How did this happen? I went to Godaddy where I have my domains registered and started checking, after fooling around there for several hours, checking and rechecking I realized the problem was not there. Next I went back to my capture page and redid it all over, the problem was not there, now what.

I went to Aweber to check and see if I had made a mistake there, I couldn't find anything. Back and forth form my capture page, to Godaddy to Aweber. After a couple days I sent Godaddy a help request and they responded with what they thought would solve my problem but it didn't. Not Goddady's fault. Went to Aweber with the same request for help. Aweber responded with the answer.

The solution was so simple once Aweber pointed out how the problem was created.

If you are familiar with Aweber, when dealing with list names, if you make any changes to your setup you must make sure you are working with the correct list name, this I did. Next when creating your webform, what I did was set up a custom redirect withou realizing what I had done.

Here is Aweber instructions:

When setting up a custom redirect page for web forms, click on the Web Form tab then the name of your form. Now, you can move to step 2 which is settings by clicking the blue button towards the bottom right of the page. On that page, you want to move to the Thank You Page setting and click the down arrow menu. From the menu, choose custom URL and enter the URL you want to send subscribers to.  THIS is where I messed up I entered the wrong URL, so when I entered my name and Email on my capture page it redirected me to the URL I had entered . I entered the correct URL and all is well. For more information Click Here

Hope this will help someone...
Howard