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Main components of Microsoft FrontPage:
- FrontPage Editor
- FrontPage Explorer
- FrontPage Personal Web Server
You will be using the FrontPage Explorer to upload
your web
site, the Editor to edit and create it (you can edit your
site
online or do it offline and then upload it). The personal Web
Server is used to check your site in the browser locally.
Index of this document:
Getting Started
Uploading your Web
Creating New Webs
Addendum
Troubleshooting
Links to Further Information and
Details
Getting
Started:
Basic
settings:
assume your domain is hello.com
location to publish to: hello.com (note if the
domain is not
active use the IP# we assigned)
FTP server name:
hello.com
Directory path: /www/hello
Username:
hello
Passwd: As-sent-to-you
The first thing you want to do is create your web
site, or "web"
as it's called with FrontPage, on your own computer.
Working
on your own computer is much faster than directly off the
server,
plus it saves you on-line time and phone charges.
To create your web, make sure that the Personal Web
Server is running, and launch Explorer. Select File-->New
Web
from the menu.
Choose Empty Web from the list (you
can experiment with the other choices later), and press
OK
Next it will ask you for the location for the new
web. For Web Server, put localhost, and for Web
Name, give your web a name.
Now if all went well, Explorer will ask you for your
username and password and then create an empty web for you. In the
header at the top it should say
"http://localhost/webname"
Now you can begin creating your web pages. Launch
FrontPage Editor (without closing Explorer). Now when you create a
page and save it, it will automatically be saved in your web. Make
sure to name your home page index.htm.
Once you've finished creating and testing out your
web site, you can upload all the pages of your web site to our
servers. To upload your web:
Open your web in Explorer (the web on your computer)
and
select File --> Copy Web from the menu. In
location,
put www.yourdomain.com, or your
I.P address if your domain
name has not yet been activated. If you
have a non-virtual
account, put www.youthofamerica.org/yourwebname.
For the web name, select <Root Web>
or the name of your
web for non-virtual accounts. Select Add
to an Existing Web,
as your <Root Web> has already
been created. (Non-virtual clients
should just put the name of their
web). Or if you
already created a new web, follow these
instructions.
Then enter your username and password once prompted
to do so.
That's it. Now your entire web will be copied over
to the server.
(Fully Virtual accounts only)
In addition to your <Root Web>, you can also
create other webs in your directory. One web can be password
protected, one web can contain a threaded-discussion board. There
are tons of things you can do with FrontPage, and the best way to
learn them is to experiment.
Resellers who have purchased FrontPage web for
resale can also create webs for their clients, allowing them to
maintain their own web site using FrontPage, at no extra charge to
the reseller.
Here are some important things you need to know to
create new webs:
- Unless you chose the FrontPage-only option upon
set-up of
your site, before creating a new web, you must telnet
into
your account and "chmod 777 www". After you are
finished
created a new web in Explorer, go back into Telnet and
put back the original settings "chmod 755 www)
- The new web can be accessed as
http://www.yourdomain.com/newweb
For example, put the name of
the web in the location
box (www.yourdomain.com/newweb)
and
name the web "newweb". Now users will be able to
access it with
the above address (as long as you named
your home page
index.htm)
- The web server has to be rebooted before you can
actually
use your new web. So when you first create your web on
the
server, it will create it and then give you an error (because
it is trying to open your newly created web, but it cannot be used
until the next morning). Just say OK to the error(s). The web
servers are rebooted every morning. Just go back to Explorer the
following day and see if you can open your web. If it opens then
you know you successfully created it. Close the empty web and open
your web on your computer (localhost). Select copy
web from the file menu and for the
location put www.yourdomain.com, for destination web
server and the name of your web for web
name.
- You can also create a new web and select
add to existing web (for example, to create an
threaded discussion board). You don't have to have a separate web
for everything, but sometimes it is needed (password protection,
for example)
Addendum: Getting Started
With FrontPage 98.
FrontPage98 allows you to easily create and maintain
you web site.
For you to begin working with FrontPage you must
have the FrontPage98
Server Extensions installed. We will do
this for you at no cost.
To add these go to our Once the
extensions are installed
you can open FrontPage98. When you
open the program a
box is opened that has the title "Getting
Started". This is
where you open the various webs on different
servers. This box
can also be accessed by going to, File-Open
FrontPage Web.
Click on "More webs". Type your domain
name in the
"Web Server Box". Then click on list webs.
The you will see,
"<root web>". This is the web that will open
when you type in
your domain name. Double click on "<root
web>". Enter your
login and password. Now that the web is opened
under the
window labeled "View" click on "Navigation". Once
you have
entered the navigation view you can start creating a layout
for
the site. Using the new page button located on the left on
the
top tool bar you can create the pages and name them.
To add
content to these pages double-click on them and they will
open in FrontPage Editor. Once the page is edited save and
close the editor and your pages has been edited or created on your
account with us. FrontPage98 helps you by doing all the
uploading of images and HTML pages. Also it helps in the
editing of the web site. When working with a FrontPage web
open you are connected to our server. This means that you must
be connected to the Internet.
Building your website locally first
FrontPage allows you to build & test your
website locally at your own computer before uploading it to us. To
take full advantage of FrontPage Extension, you will need to install
Personal Web Server. See FrontPage documentation for details about
Personal Web Server. Below is a quick walk-through on how to create
a web locally. Please refer to 'Getting Started with Microsoft(r)
FrontPage(r)98' for more details.
- Open FrontPage Explorer.
- Choose New in the File Menu of the FrontPage
Explorer.
- Check 'From Wizard or Template' and select an
appropiate
template or wizard.
- Click 'Change'. Enter 'LocalHost/yourweb'
in the text box.
- Enter the title of the web you are
creating.
- Uncheck 'Add to Current Web'.
- In the name and password boxes, type in the
appropriate
user name and password.
- Create the web content.
Publishing your site
After you have developed and tested your website
locally,
you can upload it to our server using the publish web
command
with FrontPage.
- Establish a connection to the Internet.
(Important)
- Open the local web you have developed
- Choose Publish Frontpage Web in the File
Menu
- Enter the IP address (as specified on the
activation notice sent by us) or www.yourdomainname.com in
"Destination Web Server or File Location"
- Leave the field "Name of Destination FrontPage
Web" blank
- Uncheck "Connect using SSL" if it is
checked
- In the Option area, check "Copy changed pages
Only" and "Add to an
Existing Web". Uncheck "Copy Child Web" if
checked
- Click OK.
- When prompted for User Name and password, enter
the user_id and password specified in your activation
notice.
- FrontPage will now publish your web which can
take up to several minutes. It is very important that you do not
abort anytime during the process of publishing; FrontPage will not
function properly if this process is being
aborted.
How do I change or update HTML pages within my web
site?
Once you have published your web to our server, you
can make
changes in 2 ways.
Method 1 (Suggested)
Modify your local web and re-publish it again. Make
sure you
check "Copy changed pages only"
Method 2
Open the web located on our server and modify files
as needed.
- Establish a connection to the Internet.
(Important)
- Choose Open FrontPage Web in the File Menu
- Enter the IP address (as specified on the
activation notice) or www.yourdomainname.com in "Destination Web
Server or File Location"
- Click "List Web"
- Select <Root Web>
- Click OK
- When prompted for User Name and password, enter
the user_id and password in your activation notice
- Edit files as needed
- Close FrontPage Web when done
We strongly suggest you use Method 1 because it
eliminates the need for Internet Connectivity and is faster. You can
also use your local web as a backup copy.
If you are having any problems uploading, copying,
or opening
your webs, or with the non-FrontPage portion of your
site,
please be sure to note the following:
- If you have just created a new web on the server,
remember that you can only open it and use it the
following day
after the web servers have been rebooted.
- Never use FTP or Telnet in those directories
where you
are using FrontPage. FrontPage will not see anything you
manually upload, and any configurations you alter could c
ause big
problems with FrontPage. If you have the need to use FTP or Telnet
for certain configuration files (.htaccess for example), be sure
to create a separate directory for those web pages, and only have
your index.htm in your <Root Web>. You can maintain some
directories using FrontPage and others using FTP, but never mix
the two!
- A "POST: Method not implemented" error appears if
you are trying to use a CGI script that POSTs information to the
server, yet the FrontPage server extensions have blocked this.
Please contact us noting your
domain, login, and the server it is on so that we can correct this
for you.
- For information on how to use FrontPage, see the
on-line help that comes with FrontPage. Microsoft also has some
newsgroups and FAQ's devoted to FrontPage where you might find
answers to your questions.
- FrontPage has a problem with the "copy web"
command. This command uses HTTP instead of FTP to transfer the
files and therefore will time out during an upload. It is
recommended not to use the copy web command for files over 300K on
a 28.8k connection, 150K on a 14.4k connection.
It is instead
suggested to use the Publishing Wizard 1.1 for sending files. At
the moment this is available at:
http://www.microsoft.com/frontpage/softlib/fs_fp_pbwiz.htm
For more information about this bug,
point your browser to:
http://www.lightman.co.uk/windoesnot/edification/bugnet_070197.html
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