Accessing your account via Front Page

The FrontPage extensions must be installed before you begin to work with Frontpage.

1. After booting Front Page, you will probably be presented the screen below. Click on "Open Existing FrontPage Web" , and then click on "More Webs..."

2. At "Select a Web server of disk location:" put in your domain name You do not need to put in the "www" before it.

3. Click on List Webs to show the FrontPage webs.

4. Choose the sub-web you wish to edit.

Publishing with FrontPage

When you upload a web to your server with the Microsoft Web Publishing Wizard, your FTP Server is just your domain name. The directory path should be left blank.

How you move your site using Frontpage

If someone is moving their domain from one server to another and they wish to maintain their navigational structure, they need to open their current web and publish (File --> publish) the site to the new location.

Forms using Frontpage

You know you have FrontPage extensions, and yet when you try to use formmail.pl, you get this message:

_____________________________

You have sent a form or have followed a link to a page that requires a Web

server and FrontPage extensions to work correctly.

This form or FrontPage component will work correctly if you publish (copy)

this web into a web server having the FrontPage extensions.

___________________________

SOLUTION: Use FrontPage's own forms.

FP has the equivalent of formmail, and it is very difficult to use formmail and FrontPage together. Although it may be technically possible, instructing a client on how to do this is simply beyond what we offer in FP support

.

Secure Forms and Frontpage 

FrontPage and secure forms don't work together, insofar as we know. We have verified this with Microsoft.

Restrict Access To directories using Frontpage

If you want to restrict access to directories, you have to turn the subdirectories into SubWebs and use FrontPage's access restrictions. It's not that hard to do:

1. Create the subweb by doing File --> New -->FrontPage Web .

2. Select "Import an existing web".

3. Choose a title for your web. Since you can only restrict access to a web that's on the server, be sure you change the path so that it is going to the Internet location. Click ok.

4. It will start the process to make the new web.

5. The Import Web Wizard will come up. Select "From a World Wide Web site". In the location box, put in the path to the specific directory, for example, http://domain.com/members . This will get only that directory, and not the whole web. Click next.

6. This is where you limit the amount of information you will receive. Unless you know your pages are more extensive than these defaults, just leave it at the default and click next.

7. Click finish and wait a few minutes as the content copies over.

At this point, you have all your information in a new web. Now you can set up the restrictions.

1. In the FrontPage Explorer, click on Tools --> Permissions...

2. Select "use unique permissions for this web". Click apply at this time.

3. Click on the users tab.

4. Select "only registered users have browse access".

5. Add any users you need, and then click ok.