Click on the folder, then click Open
Exisiting websites are known to frontPage, and therefore give the detail
"stores your local web site". A folder needs to be converted by opening it
in FrontPage and allowing the conversion.
However, it sounds like you are opening a folder *within* a website -
remember you have to use http:// in the address for the containing site, and
your original error message complained that the "parent site is server
based".
You have to open that server based web site in frontPage using IIS (requires
http:// address, not file sytem like c:\path...) , then convert the subsite.
--
Ron Symonds
Microsoft MVP (Expression Web)
http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/fp
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"chucklez" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:57B14C6D-5D5F-4EFD-B6A8-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Ron,
>
> Thank you for the information, I know what you are saying but I don't know
> how to accomplish that. Opening Front Page, and using file open, if I have
> my
> cursor over the "directory" of all my other web sites that I update, it
> reads
> "stores your local web site" and then lists the folders. When I put the
> cursor over the web site that has the subdirectory, all it reads is "size
> 297MB" and then lists the folders. I don't know how to make that main
> folder
> appear as a web site. Sorry if I sound like a complete dunce.......
>
> --
> chucklez
>
>
> "Ronx" wrote:
>
>> The error
>> "Unable to create a disk-based Web because its parent web would not be a
>> disk-based web" indicates that the main website should be opened as a
>> server
>> based site, using an address similar to http://domain/websitename - the
>> http:// is important, the rest depends on how things are set up.
>>
>> When the main site is opened correctly, you should be able to convert the
>> new folder to a subsite without any problems.
>>
>> When publishing to the subsite on the remote server, publish to
>> http://example.com/subsitename/
>> It sounds as though you are publishing to
>> http://example.com/subsitename/subsitename
>>
>> --
>> Ron Symonds
>> Microsoft MVP (Expression Web)
>> http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/fp
>>
>> Reply only to group - emails will be deleted unread.
>>
>>
>>
>> "chucklez" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:3C6125CD-195A-4784-900F-(E-Mail Removed)...
>> > I am using FrontPage 2003 and am trying to convert a sub-directory to a
>> > web
>> > page. I update web pages for the Homer Chamber of Commerce. The pages
>> > themselves were created by another company. Recently they created a
>> > subset
>> > of
>> > pages, but they were created as a web site within a web site. I have
>> > downloaded to pages, but they downloaded as a sub-directory rather than
>> > a
>> > site. When I follow the instructions for changing the sub-directory to
>> > a
>> > web
>> > site I receive an error message as follows: Server error: Unable to
>> > create
>> > a
>> > disk-based Web because its parent web would not be a disk-based web.
>> >
>> > When I look at the files on my computer using "explore", all the other
>> > web
>> > sites that I update have a file type that indicates they are a web
>> > site,
>> > but
>> > the one that I receive the error message on does not - don't know if
>> > this
>> > is
>> > important or not.
>> >
>> > At this point I am unable to upload revised files to the sub-site. When
>> > I
>> > upload to the remote site, a new subdirectory is created in the subsite
>> > rather than overwriting the existing files in the subsite. Can anyone
>> > help
>> > me?
>> > --
>> > chucklez
>>
>> .
>>
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