Publishing

[Beth]

I am publishing from FP 2003 to a server with 2002
extensions installed. I would like to publish w/the FP
services option, but so far FTP is the only way I've
managed to make it work. (and it took a lot of playing
with that before I happened on the right combination)

Here's what happens:
When I try to publish with FP services, it seems to
connect, then tells me that the path does not lead to a FP
site, and would I like to create one. (There *is* a site
at that address - I published it from FP with FTP) I say
yes and it gives me a dialog box in which I fill in the
user name and password exactly as I do to get on thru FTP,
and try every combination I can think of for domain. Every
time, it does not accept the entries and gives me the same
box again.

For sake of clarity, let's say I am publishing to
http://www.site.com/folder, with the FTP path being
site/www/folder. Please, what is the *exact* combination I
should be entering in both the url and the dialog box?

BTW, the user name at the FTP site is not the same as the
user name in FP - would this be causing the problem?

TIA,
Beth

ps. Occasionally, when publishing with FTP, FP informs me
that the server does not have extensions installed, and
that certain features on my pages will not work. I have
already had the server folks reinstall the extensions
once, and the features work just fine once they're up
there.

 

[Craig Schiller]

Beth -

It is likely that you are breaking the extensions every time you publish
via FP. Have your ISP reinstall them again. The address you should be
publishing to is www.site.com, unless you are trying to publish a
subweb, which you didn't mention.

HTH,
Craig

 

[Steve Easton]

http://site.com or http://www.site.com

;-)


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[Craig Schiller]

Steve -

Interesting. There are some here who say specifically NOT to use the http:// prefix.

Craig

 

[Steve Easton]

With a server with extensions you need to use the prefix.

But then again, I've always used it and never tried it the other way.
But then again, again, if you drop www you must add http://

;-)

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[Thomas A. Rowe]

FP98 and prior are the only versions of FP where you can't use http:// when opening or publishing.
FP2000 and up require the http://.

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[Andrew Murray]

I think you need to put in your FTP URL ftp://www.site.com/folder
rather than the server path www/files/docs etc in the FTP publish in frontpage.
Remember using ANY ftp is probably going to corrupt the server extensions -
advisable to use http:// to publish. If you can't publish and/or connect via
http:// through frontpage it also probably means the server extensions are not
working/not installed.