Problem publishing Web locally

[KenM]

I have been learning Frontpage 2000 at home recently on my small local
network. I am hoping to set up a site for a charity shortly. To help with
my learning I set up IIS 5 with Frontpage Extentions on a Windows 2000
Professional machine. My aim is to publish any Webs I produce for
experiments/learning to a subweb on this machine from my main machine, where
I do the development.

The problem is that when I Publish the a Frontpage web to the site Frontpage
goes through the publishing process and I can see the copying progress bars
etc. It then tells me that it has published sucessfully and gives me the
correct address. In fact nothing has gone over at all and when I access the
site - which I can browse to OK - there are none of the pages or files
there. Looking at the server direct the subweb contains only the files and
folders put there by configuring extensions.

I can get pages on to the site by copying them direct - but I want to know
what is wrong with publishing from Frontpage as I shall probably have to do
this when I produce the 'real' site.

KenM

 

[Kevin Spencer]

Unfortunately, you skipped over all the important details with the phrase
"when I Publish the a Frontpage web to the site" - can you detail the steps
you took to do this?

--
HTH,
Kevin Spencer
..Net Developer
Microsoft MVP
Big things are made up
of lots of little things.

 

[KenM]

1) I first load the TestWeb I want to publish into Frontpage from the local
file system, and check that it all looks OK.

2) I then select 'Publish Web' from the File Menu

3) At the location I put in 'http://Bigred/KMTestWeb1' where Bigred is the
name of the computer on my network where I have installed IIS which is
running and KMTestWeb1 is the name of the Subweb I created to have put a
test web on.

4) I make sure that 'Publish all pages' is selected

5) I click on 'Publish'

6) I see the progress bar growing and brief messages about the processeing
done and then the message 'Web site published sucessfully' comes up with
'click here to veiw your published web site'.

7) I click on the link and I can see the name of the directory 'bigred -
/KMTestWeb1/' and the folders '_private' and 'images'. No files are visible
and the folder images is empty (the folder images on my Frontpage web has
the graphics as you would expect)

8) Checking the folder on the IIS server machine (BigRed) just shows the
server extention files but no web content.

 

[Kevin Spencer]

Hard to say, but here are a few Microsoft Knowledge Base articles that may
help:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;194401&Product=fp2000
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;266430&Product=fp2000
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;324843&Product=fp2000

Finally, check the version of FrontPage server extensions on the web site.
Make sure you're not running a newer (2002) version.

--
HTH,
Kevin Spencer
..Net Developer
Microsoft MVP
Big things are made up
of lots of little things.

 

[KenM]

Thanks for the information. I have not mangaged to solve the problem yet,
but I have discovered some more about what is hapening. When looking
through 'My Network Places' on the client machine I found a Web Folder with
the correct address and containing the subweb also with the correct address.
This did hold all the information I had published - As said previously
browsing to this address shows none of the published info.

I searched the machine running IIS (Bigred) for some of the data to find out
where it was. It was in the 'C:\FrontPage Webs\Content' folder on the
BigRed machine. This is not within the default web site and so cannot be
seen. Do you know what is hapenning?