MICROSOFT FRONTPAGE
NOTE: If your account is a
Virtual IP Plan, please remember that your domain name will need to
be activated on our nameservers before FrontPage will be available
to your account.
Basic FrontPage
Instructions
Login: Choose
"Open FrontPage Web" from the File Menu in FrontPage Explorer. It
will ask you for a Web Server of File Location. Enter yourdomain.com
and then "list
webs". Next, you will need to select
(double-click) the root web. The requested login and password will
be the same as your FTP account.
Usage:
FrontPage supplies you with two separate interfaces.
The FrontPage explorer is used to manage the files within your web
site. If you open a file in your web site another program
called FrontPage Editor will open. When you are connected to
your web then all changes made to any file you edit will be saved to
your web. *Note: Although the software documentation states that
you can create the site on your computer and then "publish" it to
the web server, we do not recommend this. Many times
publishing to the server from your computer will loose the
Interactive web bots features that you may have setup when designing
your site on your local computer. We recommend that you
create your entire site by being connected to your web and saving
directly to the server. To move files already created on your
web site use the Import command found under the File menu within
FrontPage Explorer to select the files to import to the
server. This is by far the best method for moving files from
your hard drive to the server.
Additional support
documents and complete usage instructions can be found at
Microsoft's official FrontPage Home
Page.
(Please note that
the Our Technical Staff can not assist in client side FrontPage
configuration, please check with Microsoft's Technical Support
documents)
MICROSOFT
FRONTPAGE 98 Publishing
a Web Opening
an Existing Web Troubleshooting
problems in FrontPage 98 Further
Microsoft FrontPage Support
Publishing a Web
After you have
built your html documents and are ready to upload them to our
server:
1. Open the web you've created on your PC using FP
Explorer.
2. Choose File > Publish
3. If your
"Destination Web Server" doesn't appear in the Publish window (it
won't the first time you publish to our server) CHOOSE "More Webs"
and type the location of the web to publish to. Hit return.
IMPORTANT: Use www.yourdomain.com as the Destination Web Server to
publish to our server. Leave the "Destination Web Name" BLANK.
4. You will be asked for your USERNAME and PASSWORD. This is
your domain's USERNAME and your FrontPage PASSWORD (which may be
different than your regular telnet/ftp/POP password). If you're not
sure what it is or if you aren't allowed past this point, you'll
need to contact us for a new FP password.
5. You can watch
the progression of the upload by looking at the bottom left corner
of FP Explorer.
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Opening an Existing Web
1. Open FP Explorer and choose File > Open Front
Page Web.
2. You can now choose to open a previously created
web on your PC or your web on our server.
3. Highlight the
appropriate web or type in the web address (www.yourdomain.com) and
click OK.
4. Enter your USERNAME and FP PASSWORD if
required.
5. Make modifications and recalculate links if
needed. (See FP help docs for info on when it's necessary to
recalculate links.
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Troubleshooting Common
Problems with FP98
Getting error - "Root Web
Busy"
FTP or telnet to your site and remove the
"service.lck" file in /www/_vti_pvt. This usually happens when an FP
session is interrupted before completion.
Server
timing out when publishing large sites.
This
difficulty arises when the uploading link times out in the process
of copying the web to our server. The only suggestion Microsoft has
offered so far is to break the main web into a group of sub webs on
your PC, then upload these individually. If this problem persists
for you, please contact support.
Getting Error -
"Front Page Extensions not Installed"
We often see
this error being reported even when the extensions have been
installed. If you get this error, please contact support and we'll
make sure the extensions are installed and repair them if necessary.
NOTE: The extensions are easily corrupted. Please use only FP
Explorer to update your web site on the server, not FTP.
I published but my web's not there!
This will happen when the "Destination Web Name" is filled
in when publishing to our server.
This box should be left
blank. If you put any other name in this box it will create a
subdirectory off of your root web and copy all of your files into
it. Your site will exist under a subdirectory instead of at the top
level /www where it should be.
My counter, bbs,
guestbook, etc isn't working.
These problems are
generally due to incorrect permissions on either the directory,
file(s) or cgi script(s) that are associated with them. Please don't
change the permissions of your files or directories unless you have
a specific reason for doing so and you know what effect it will have
on your site.
My forms won't work through the Secure
Server.
The call to a cgi script using the Secure
Server must not be within a webbot. Use a normal cgi call in your
html script for Secure Server calls.
My search bot
doesn't return any results.
The /www directory must
be world readable AND you need to recalculate links BEFORE
publishing (or after editing directly on the server). If it still
doesn't work: FTP to the server and go to the
/www/_vti_txt/default.wti directory.Delete any files that begin with
"ALL.". Don't delete any other files. Then using Windows Explorer,
do the same thing on your PC. Recalculate links, test locally with
your browser and publish.
FP starts the Web Publishing
Wizard when I try to publish.
Cancel the operation
and email support to have the FP extensions
installed/repaired.
Why is my page renamed on the
server when I publish?
The "Default Document" of
your web is automatically renamed by the server to what is required
by the configuration of the server. For example, if you've named the
main page "index.html", it may be renamed "default.html". Just check
the links to your main page to make sure they refer to it the same
way.
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Microsoft
FrontPage 2000
This tutorial will guide
you step-by-step through configuring Microsoft FrontPage to exchange
files between your computer and your web site.
In order to follow along
with us, you'll need to have Microsoft FrontPage installed, and
you'll need to be connected to the internet via your Internet
service provider
Create a Simple Page
Before you can publish an
html file to your web site with FrontPage, you must either have a
page already created, or create a page. To create a page with
FrontPage, follow these simple steps:
1. With FrontPage open,
choose File --> New.
2. Type in "This is a
simple test"
3. From the menu bar,
choose File --> Save As.
4. Name the html
file. (If this file is to be your homepage, be sure to name it
index.html)
Once you have the file
saved to your hard drive, you are ready to publish the
file.
Publish Your Web
Page.
1. From the menu bar,
choose File --> Publish Web .
You'll get a dialog box
like this:
2. Click on the Options
button
You will see a dialog box
like this:
3. In box below Specify the
location to publish your site to: enter the full URL for your
site.
4. If this is the first
time you are publishing your site, select Publish all pages...
5. Select Include
subwebs.
You should now have a
dialog box that looks like this:
Obviously, you will have
put your real domain name instead of
'mydomain.com'
6. Click the Publish
button.
You should now see a dialog
box like this one:
7. Enter your username and
password.
If you have entered all the
details correctly, FrontPage 2000 will then publish your site. You
will see a dialog box like this one when it has
finished:
8. Click
Done.
Further Microsoft FrontPage
Support
If you need further assistance using
FrontPage, go to the FrontPage Home
Page.
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