Is PWS necessary for FP2000 to perform live update on server

[Bob]

I have an account on Earthlink with FP extensions installed. I can open the
web and edit existing files that I uploaded via ftp but I cannot create a
new page and upload it directly from FP2000 to the server. The page is saved
on my hard drive under My Webs\(name of my site) and I have to copy/paste it
to the web.

Do I have to have PWS (or similar) installed to allow this to happen?

Thanks

Bob

 

[Andrew Murray]

Personal web server (PWS) is a utility to let your computer run as a web
server (for testing purposes) and it was necessary for FP97 and FP98 (which
ran server-based webs rather than disk based webs)

PWS doesn't come with FP2000, and is not necessary to have it to run FP2000
(since you can use disk based webs). It isn't necessary to update to a
remote web server. (I don't understand your question about this).

If you want to test on your own computer, you can install IIS (with an O/S
of Windows 2000 Professional or XP Professional) IIS comes with XP and 2000
on the installation disk. Publish to the c:\inetpub\wwwroot\ location or
http://localhost

Don't upload by FTP if you're publishing to the server with the server
extensions! You need to publish correctly by http mode.

 

[Tom Willett]

No, you do not need PWS on your local machine.
If you have extensions installed on the host server, you must not use ftp,
but you must use http publishing. FTP corrupts the extensions, and your
host must fix or reinstall them.

 

[Peter R. Fletcher]

It's a bit over-simplified to say that "FTP corrupts the
extensions....". I frequently use FTP to upload parts of an FP site
(usually, but not always, files or directories containing Javascript
or PHP code or simple single pages within a subsite) without causing
myself problems. The key is to ensure that you don't transfer any of
FP's "special" directories (names starting with _) or the files within
them, and that any source pages that you do transfer do not use FP's
more advanced "bells and whistles".

Transferring the "special" directories or their contents from one
system to another is what is almost guaranteed to corrupt the
extensions on the target system.

No, you do not need PWS on your local machine.
If you have extensions installed on the host server, you must not use ftp,
but you must use http publishing. FTP corrupts the extensions, and your
host must fix or reinstall them.

Please respond to the Newsgroup, so that others may benefit from the exchange.
Peter R. Fletcher