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If you are planning on using Microsoft’s FrontPage as the
web-development tool for your site, you will first need to enable
FrontPage Extensions.
NOTE: Installing
FrontPage extensions for your site does not install Microsoft
FrontPage on your computer. FrontPage is a separate software application
which you will need to purchase and install on your computer.
(Some computers come equipped with Microsoft FrontPage pre-installed.)
WARNING: Enabling
FrontPage extensions on your account disables some utilities in
the control panel. By enabling FrontPage extensions, you are telling
the server that you will be using FrontPage to handle these functions.
The following Control Panel options will no longer be available
to you:
Site Creation Tool
Redirect URL
Mime Types
Protect Directories
Installing,
Verifying, and Removing FrontPage Extensions
To Install FrontPage Extensions, select the "MS FrontPage"
option of your control panel. This will open the Microsoft FrontPage
Extension Manager page:
To install the FrontPage Extensions, click the
"Install FrontPage" button. A message will then appear
indicating that FrontPage extensions will be installed within
approximately ten minutes.
To Verify that FrontPage Extensions are installed,
again go to the "MS FrontPage" option of your control
panel. If you are able to perform this verification, a "Verify"
button will appear on the Microsoft Front Page Extension Manager
page.
When you click this "Verify" button, a
message will appear indicating whether the extensions have been
installed or not:
To remove FrontPage extensions, go to the "MS
FrontPage" option of your control panel and click the "Remove
Front Page Extensions" button found at the bottom of the
"Microsoft Front Page Extension Manager" page. A message
will appear stating that FrontPage extensions will be removed
in approximately ten minutes.
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Publishing
a Web Using FrontPage
Once you have finished creating your web pages in
FrontPage, and you are ready to upload them to our server:
- Open the Web that you have created using the FrontPage explorer
- Choose File > Publish
- 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 and be sure to leave the "Destination Web Name"
BLANK.
- 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 current telnet/ftp/POP password). This
password will be the current control panel/ FTP password at
the time you installed FrontPage Extensions in your control
Panel.
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Troubleshooting
FrontPage
The default home page ("under
construction") still shows up even after I have uploaded
my index page.
You MUST DELETE the default page before your index page will
show up.
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 a FrontPage
session is interrupted before completion.
Server times 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.
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 that extensions are installed properly and
repair them if necessary. NOTE: FrontPage extensions are easily
corrupted. Please use only the FrontPage Explorer to update
your web site on the server, do not use
FTP.
I have published, but my web's not
there!
This often occurs because 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.
FrontPage starts the Web Publishing
Wizard when I try to publish.
Cancel the operation and have the FrontPage extensions reinstalled
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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Further Microsoft
FrontPage Support
For FrontPage 2000 extra features and manual visit Microsoft
website. http://support.microsoft.com
There also exist some newsgroups that are dedicated to Microsoft
FrontPage.
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