Contents of this Page
Installation/Removal of Microsoft®
FrontPage® Extensions
Microsoft® FrontPage® 98 vs. Microsoft®
FrontPage® 97
Microsoft® FrontPage® 97: FTP & Telnet
Issues
Creating a New Web & Restarting of Web Daemon
Microsoft® FrontPage® Transfer Protocol & Internet Traffic
Web Publishing Wizard
Making ".exe" Files Downloadable
Publishing with Microsoft® FrontPage® - General
Publishing with Microsoft® FrontPage® 98
Microsoft® FrontPage® 98 Software Patch
Microsoft® FrontPage® 2000
Important Things To Know
(summary):
If you signed up for a Microsoft® FrontPage® account, we initially installed Microsoft®
FrontPage® extensions for your site. If you decide that you no longer wish to use
Microsoft® FrontPage®, and you make this decision after the first 30 days from when you
setup your account, you will be charged a $30 fee to have them removed. Likewise, if you
initially signed up for an account without Microsoft® FrontPage®, and you later decide
that you want to use Microsoft® FrontPage®, you will be charged a $30 fee for the
installation of the extensions (unless you make the decision within the aforementioned
30-day grace period).
We have the Microsoft®
FrontPage®'97 extensions and Microsoft® FrontPage®'98 extensions installed on our
servers. Please tell us which version you want on your site. Microsoft® FrontPage®'98
extensions are backwards compatible to Microsoft® FrontPage®'97 designed sites.
If you choose to use Microsoft®
FrontPage®'97, the only way to upload your web site(s) is with Microsoft®
FrontPage®; you CANNOT FTP
into your "/Microsoft® FrontPage®/" Directory. You can use FTP & TELNET to
enter other areas of your site outside the Microsoft® FrontPage® Directory Structure.
Sites with Microsoft® FrontPage®'98 extensions can use FTP
& TELNET to upload files to the Microsoft® FrontPage® Directory Structure but pages
using Microsoft® FrontPage® Web Bots must be loaded with Microsoft® FrontPage®.
Directories outside of the "Microsoft® FrontPage®" directories must be
uploaded to with FTP. These include /cgibin and /docs.
The DocumentRoot (the directory visible to web browsers) on older Microsoft® FrontPage®
installations is named,
"/mnt/web/guide/yourdomain/Microsoft® FrontPage®" . On newer
installations it is named, "/mnt/web/guide/yourdomain/wwwfp". This is
where your web content goes, this is where Microsoft® FrontPage® will publish to.
Every time you create a
"New Web" on our server, we will have to restart your web daemon. We have
now updated our Web Configuration to automatically reboot every 15 minutes if you have "Created
A New Web". This means that you publish the web and the server creates the directory
for it. Shut down your Microsoft® FrontPage® Explorer for at least 15 minutes while you
go get a cup of coffee. Come back and restart the Microsoft® FrontPage® Explorer,
republish your web and you are all set. This is for new sub-webs only; changes to your
root web should be apparent immediately after publishing.
Microsoft® FrontPage® is a
good product, however its transfer protocol is temperamental and does not react well
to heavy traffic. Therefore it is a good idea to have each of your directories created as
their own sub-web, and then "publish" it to your site. Try to keep each
individual web down to 1 or 2 megabytes. Larger webs will tend to "timeout" when
publishing.
If you
have the "Web Publishing Wizard" on your computer, you will need to
uninstall it using your control panel's Add/Remove Programs feature. This
Wizard is for sites that do not have the Microsoft® FrontPage® Server Extensions
installed.
If you want your
visitors to download ".exe" files from your site, there is a small amount of
work involved. First, you must place the .exe files in a subdirectory of your root
or sub-web. They cannot be in the root directory of a web or the Microsoft®
FrontPage® web bots will not work. Second, you need to create a file named
.htaccess in the subdirectory containing the .exe's . The only contents of the file will
be:
AddType application/octet-stream exe EXE
This can also be done in your /docs directory if you wish to keep the files out of your
Microsoft® FrontPage® directories.
Last thing to
remember is "You Must Be Online To
Publish Your Web".
Many of our servers
already have the Microsoft® FrontPage® 2000 server extensions installed. Most
of the tips, above, will also apply here.
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