FTP DOES NOT SUPPORT FTP SERVERS?

[SPENCER]

I just switched to a ftp server? I have always used
http:// to log on. The hoster tells me to use ftp://www?
Can FP be used with a unix server? Who has to configure to
make it work, Server or Me?

 

[Mark Fitzpatrick]

FP can use FTP to publish to. Your problem in this scenario will be that
your host probably doesn't have support for the FP Server Extensions or else
you would be publishing using http. Don't be confused about the ftp://www.
The www really means nothing. It doesn't guarantee that it's a web server it
just means that there is a www subdomain name and it points somewhere. A lot
of services are bundled now onto one subdomain since it becomes a headache
to manage too many of them and they usually all end up pointing to the same
IP address anyways. Make sure that your filenames in your site don't have
spaces in them, and watch the capitalization. After publishing the
capitalization may end up different and Unix is case sensitive when it comes
to filenames so index.html and Index.html are seen as different files.

Hope this helps,
Mark Fitzpatrick
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

FP can only publish via FTP, it can not open a site via FTP for editing,
etc.

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