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If the information showing on your web pages is out of date, then it must have been working before, so you have made a change somewhere.
If the information showing on your web pages is out of date, then it must have been working before, so you have made a change somewhere.
*Most browsers will display 'page information' that tells you when the page was last modified (by querying the web server).
*Most browsers will display 'page information' that tells you when the page was last modified (by querying the web server).
**if the page was recently modified,  
**if the page on your web server was recently modified,  
***then the next item to investigate is the template file; a template file contains Cumulus web tags and the [[Customised_templates#What_is_meant_by_.27Cumulus_processes_templates.27|'process']] that Cumulus does to create a web page involves reading text from a template and when it finds a web tag it inserts the latest value in as it creates the page. Therefore if there is no template file, Cumulus can not generate a new web page and will just upload the old local copy of the web page.
***then the next item to investigate is the template file; a template file contains Cumulus web tags and the [[Customised_templates#What_is_meant_by_.27Cumulus_processes_templates.27|'process']] that Cumulus does to create a web page involves reading text from a template and when it finds a web tag it inserts the latest value in as it creates the page. A [[FAQ#What_file-names_does_Cumulus_use_when_processing_and_uploading_files_to_my_web_site.3F|local file]] is then created and Cumulus will FTP (or copy) this to the web server according to the settings. If the template file cannot be processed, Cumulus may still upload an existing old local file.
**if the page was not recently modified,  
**if the page was not recently modified,  
***maybe you are not running Cumulus, so it is not updating.   
***maybe you are not running Cumulus, so it is not updating.   
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