Starting work on an existing Web

[Sam Carter]

I've inherited two Frontpage Webs that I've been asked to maintain.

I'm running FP 2002, Win XP and have IIS installed (if that is needed).

What's the best way to import the existing web(s) to my PC to begin work
with Frontpage? Do I open the remote web and publish it here?

Sam

 

[Andrew Murray]

1) Do you have the web sites on your local computer? If so, you just start
Frontpage, then File, Open, Web and choose the "web" which you want to work on.
"Web" is the term FP uses - it is really a folder on your HDD which contains your
web pages within that Web.

If you need to you probably have to publish the site to your local disk first,
unless it was provided to you by some other means. So you need to follow the
procedure below, then click File, Publish Web, and publish back to your local
machine from the server. I'm not exactly sure of this procedure
precisely,perhaps others on this NG can give you further advice.


2) If you want to, you can work on the remote site. (that needs Win 2K or higher,
IIS and FP server extensions.
You go to File, Open, Web and then in the "Open" field type the full url e.g.
http://www.yoursite.com
and then enter the password and username for that server/user web space.

If you don't have the server extensions on the web/remote server then you can use
your favourite FTP program or the ftp feature within frontpage and use
ftp://www.yoursite.com rather than http:
it will prompt for the password and username and then list the file(s) in the
local and remote locations.

That is the basic steps.

I suggest you visit www.frontpagewiz.com for further instructions - that is a
good site I've found with basic to advanced tutorials for most of Frontpages
features.

 

[Sam Carter]

1) Do you have the web sites on your local computer? If so, you just

start
Frontpage, then File, Open, Web and choose the "web" which you want to
work on.
"Web" is the term FP uses - it is really a folder on your HDD which
contains your
web pages within that Web.

I need to know the method(s) of getting the remote Web on my computer for
editing....

- Do I open the web and publish locally? To an IIS web or to "My Webs"?

Sam

 

[Sam Carter]

Or should I "Import Web" to a local folder or IIS?

Sam

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

If the remote site has the FP extensions, then DO NOT Import, open the live/remote site directly in
FP and publish back to your PC. If you want to work with disk-based web, then publish to a
C:\websitename or if you want to work with server-based web, then publish to
http://localhost/websitename. IIS must be running and the FP extensions installed.

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Thomas A. Rowe (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
WEBMASTER Resources(tm)

FrontPage Resources, WebCircle, MS KB Quick Links, etc.
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[Sam Carter]

If the remote site has the FP extensions, then DO NOT Import, open the
live/remote site directly in
FP and publish back to your PC. If you want to work with disk-based web,
then publish to a
C:\websitename or if you want to work with server-based web, then publish
to
http://localhost/websitename. IIS must be running and the FP extensions
installed.

Thank you very much.

What benefits are there to editing an IIS web /localhost/myweb/ versus a
disk-based web /My Webs/myweb/ ???

Sam

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

You can test the site in a web server environment, FP features that require the extensions can be
tested (with the exception of Form email function).

--
==============================================
Thomas A. Rowe (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
WEBMASTER Resources(tm)

FrontPage Resources, WebCircle, MS KB Quick Links, etc.
==============================================

 

[Sam Carter]

Thanks again Thomas.

Since I don't lose any benefit viewing the web in FP, I may opt for a
disk-based web. I've got enough stuff going on in IIS already ;-)

Sam

 

[Craig Schiller]

Sam -

Yes, you've got it. Open the online web in FP, then File | Publish to a
location on your hard drive. It doesn't matter where on your hard drive you
publish too, although many here suggest that it's best to use a location
right on the root directory, i.e. C:\yourweb.

HTH,
Craig

 

[Andrew Murray]

I believe Tom said *don't* import. See his earlier post. See his reply to your
post 12:10am 15/09/2004 (or your equiv local time).

 

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