How do you open a site that is setup as a host header?

[Guest]

Ok, I have several sites on an IIS 6.0 box. Our main site is using port 80,
and another site is using port 80 as well, except it has a host header setup
of "cbvoting". DNS has been changed and it works great trying to access
"http://cbvoting", but the problem now is, how do I open up "cbvoting" in
Frontpage to make changes to the site? If I do the normal, File, Open Site,
and type in, "http://cbvoting", I get a message back stating that the site
isn't accessible. Is there any way around this problem of opening host header
sites in Frontpage?

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

FP doesn't work well with host header, best to avoid using them.

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[Mike Mueller]

Now that's a crappy answer, all of my sites are not the
primary site on a server and use host headers perfectly
fine.

As to the OPs problem, FP does have issues with what it
thinks are bad urls. I am doing some playing with
Expressions and could not publish to a host-headered site,
as it was only called 'testingsite''. I changed the header
to give a valid TLD (testingsite.net) and can publish to the
site fine

: FP doesn't work well with host header, best to avoid using
them.
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: Thomas A. Rowe
: Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
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: Agents Real Estate Listing Network
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:
: : > Ok, I have several sites on an IIS 6.0 box. Our main
site is using port 80,
: > and another site is using port 80 as well, except it has
a host header setup
: > of "cbvoting". DNS has been changed and it works great
trying to access
: > "http://cbvoting", but the problem now is, how do I open
up "cbvoting" in
: > Frontpage to make changes to the site? If I do the
normal, File, Open Site,
: > and type in, "http://cbvoting", I get a message back
stating that the site
: > isn't accessible. Is there any way around this problem
of opening host header
: > sites in Frontpage?
: >
:
:

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

Whenever I have tried working with host header their where problems. All site I current work with
either have individual IPs or share an IP. The shared IP redirection is controlled via server-side
scripting, and all publishing is to the root or subweb.

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Thomas A. Rowe
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
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Agents Real Estate Listing Network
http://www.NReal.com
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