Missing story.html file when publishing to the web

Hi Cort and welcome to Heroes!

What do you see in the published output folder when you do publish? You'll want to confirm you're working exclusively within the Windows environment in Parallels and publishing locally as described here. 

I am having the exact same issue, and am also running Parallels on my Mac. I'm running Windows 7, but recently upgraded the Mac to Yosemite. Did you ever figure it out?

By the way, do you have any YouTube video's embedded in your project, perchance? I can publish courses that do not included embedded videos, but the one course that does, will not publish properly. 

Hi Kristi,

This thread is a bit older, so I'm not certain what occurred for Cort. Are you publishing for web or another way? 

You mentioned you're having difficulty publishing in general, and I wanted to share a reminder about the best practices for working on a Mac, in addition to ensuring you're publishing following the general file name, path, location guidelines here. 

I pinpointed the problem. I had a unacceptable character in my course title, apparently. I used a colon, and I guess that's a no no. After I removed it, I was able to publish just fine.

Thanks Kristi for the update and I'm glad you were able to pinpoint it to a specific character. 

Hello all -

I know this is an old thread... but why start a new one? I'm using Storyline (1, not 2) on Windows 8 (a PC, not a Mac) but can't seem to get the story.html file when I try to publish. Never had this problem before... wondering if I missed an update or pressed the wrong button at some point?

Below is what I'm getting in the Output file... seems like everything BUT a story.html file. Any suggestions?

Brian

Hi Brian,

Yes, you should have a story.html file - but I'm curious where you've set the publish location? It looks like those are  not locally stored files, perhaps in Dropbox or Google drive? You'll want to confirm you publish locally and then if you need ot upload the files there be sure to take the entire output folder. 

Also, we're currently on Update 10 of Storyline 1. So you can check which update you're using by going to the Help tab -> About Articulate Storyline. You'll be able to download the latest update here. 

Please let us know if you need anything else. 

Hi Ashley - thanks for your response. I've downloaded the most recent update (1) and I'm still not seeing the Story.html file.

Sorry for the previous screen shot. I published to my local drive (that was a screen shot from Google Drive, where I had uploaded it because I wanted to share the module). Attached is a shot of my local drive.

Any thoughts on what I might be doing wrong? I've taken out all special characters from the title, so it doesn't look like that's the issue. Not sure what else I'm missing.

Oops. I meant "I've downloaded the most recent updated (10)"...

Hi Brian,

Thanks for doing the update - looking at this new image, I think it is there, you're just not seeing the file extensions for any of them. Look at the the 5th item down just listed as "story" - it says it's an HTML document in the type section. Have you tried opening that one? What happens when you try to place your published content on a web server? You could use one of the options mentioned here. 

Like Ashley mentioned, the story file is right there. 

It's the 5th item from the top!

Hmmm. Yep, that looks like it's it.

My ultimate goal for this whole thing is to post it on Google Drive so others can view the project. I'm using Mike Taylor's old instructions (found here: https://community.articulate.com/articles/how-to-share-your-e-learning-course-for-free-with-google-drive) which have always worked for me in the past... but it's not working on this one.

Not sure what I'm doing wrong. I thought it was because I couldn't find a file labelled story.html (in order to change the name to index.html), but maybe that's not the problem.

Hi Brian, 

Could you share what the link looks like? I know sometimes in Google Drive it's just a minor change and that blog has a lot of comments with ideas from folks, but it can be a bit to wade through. 

Per Mike's post, I created a link that begins with: http://googledrive.com/host/ and then I add everything after "folders" from the output file I've uploaded to Google Drive, so this is the link I created: http://googledrive.com/host/0By6nhY12Tfy_eFFEd3VBN3ZoaU0

And then when I put that in and hit enter, this is the URL that pops up in my browser (Chrome): https://4436e8d592f582fcdd3025e10f843c734d30a914.googledrive.com/host/0By6nhY12Tfy_eFFEd3VBN3ZoaU0/

The way Mike described it in the post has always worked for me in the past. I tried replacing the HTML5 file with "index" also (per one of the more recent comments) and that didn't work either. Maybe I did something wrong with the file? Maybe Google changed something?

Beyond Google Drive, have you used/heard of others using something else to put a module up on the web?

Thanks for your help on this, Ashley!

Hi Brian, 

Yup, I see the same thing when accessing your links and it looks to show me a set up of your file structure in Google drive. I know other folks use Dropbox or Amazon S3 as detailed here. Perhaps give one of those a try too?  I do feel like google is always changing something though...

Had a similar issue. When published to the web, the story.html did get created, however, it didn't open and resulted in Page cannot be displayed. 
The same error happened when published to LMS. 

Not sure, if this is a solution - Restarting the system resolved the problem and it published correctly. Hope it helps someone stuck in that cycle - story.html not found. 

Thanks Lal for sharing your experience here - and although not an official "solution" I think a reboot often solves a lot of troubles!