Publishing to c:\localhost

[Grady]

I am self-hosting a small website. My setup is:

Hardware: Pentium 4 2.53 Ghz with 512 RAM
Windows XP Pro w/Service Pack 1
IIS V5.1 is installed and operating

I am Using FrontPage2003- and I am currently publishing
the web site c:\localhost.

I would like to get the webpage published to another drive
on my computer - Drive H.

FP2003 will not let me publish to H:\localhost - or
H:\Website. I can copy (FTP) files to H: of course-but
since I am using FrontPage extensions, I believe that I
really need to Publish (the first, top, option in FP).

I also have tried changed the IIS Home Directory before
publishing, but this does not seem to affect the publish
process.

Any ideas will be greatly appreciated

 

[MD WebsUnlimited.com]

Hi Grady,

C:\localhost would be a Disk Base Web with a folder called localhost under
the root of the drive.

Is H: a physical drive or logical?

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[Thomas A. Rowe]

To publish to IIS, you must enter http://localhost not c:\localhost.

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[grady]

Whoops--- I typed too fast.

I am indeed publishing to remote website located at:
http://localhost. And in IIS, the default website's Home
directory is: C:\Inetpub\wwwroot

How do I change the remote website fropm http://localhost
to somewhere on drive H??

Thank you

PS: What exactly does "localhost" mean?

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

You have to create the folder on H, then under IIS, All Tasks, create New FP
web site and point the location to the folder on your H drive.

Then you would access it via http://localhost/webname

You can not delete c:\inetpub and have the server work correctly.
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[Guest]

Thanks for replying, Tom--

I am doing something wrong? I have created a folder in H:
called NewWeb. I went to IIS, but could not get All Tasks
to appear except in my current Default Web page's
directory. I really do not want a sub web here.And even
then one of the choices was not create new FP website.

You suggest entering: http://localhost/newweb - How does
FP2003 know to go to directory H:/Newweb to publish it?
Unless FP goes first to IIS to find a home directory in
any web that has newweb in it??
Thanks

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

Sorry,

Open IIS, then select the default web, then right click, New | New Web Site.

Under Windows XP IIS you can only have a single root web.

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[Grady]

Hmmm.
Selected Default web, right clicked, NEW - only option was
virtual diretory. So I went through the steps of Creating
a Virtual Directory (GradyWeb). It shows up as a
subdirectiry of Default.

Then went to FP to publish. Set Remeote site to:
http://localhost/GradyWeb. I get a nessaage saying that a
website does not exist at http://localhost/gradyweb and do
I want to create one. I say YES.

The then get an error message: You can not convert a
virtual directory into a subweb remotely.

What should I do now??

Thanks...

 

[Guest]

Drive H is a partition on my master hardrive.

Thanks...

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

Ok, then it sound like under Windows XP IIS, you can only create subwebs
under the rootweb, c:\InetPub\wwwroot.

I don't have access to my Windows XP Pro system to check this.

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[Thomas A. Rowe]

You might want to post this to the appropriate Windows newsgroup.

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[Grady]

It does seem to lok like this is a IIS issue, not a FP
problem. So I will wander over to the IIS group and ask
for their help.

Thanks, Tom, for the gift of your time.