* Seanic.Net
provides you with Frontpage Extensions for no additional
charge. If you would like to have them installed
or removed from your account, please fill our support
request form.
The most commonly
asked question users ask when using FrontPage is:
"Why am I still seeing
your standard Welcome Screen even after uploading
all my webpages?"
Answer: There are two reasons why
this is the case.
- The welcome
message page is named index.html. Because of
this, your homepage must also be named index.html
or you will not be overwriting the default welcome
message. If your current homepage is not named index.html,
all you need to do is rename your homepage to index.html
within FrontPage and then republish. You will get
some messages asking if you really want to change
the extension and overwrite the existing index.html
file on the server...just say Yes to all changes.
- The other
problem may be that you have uploaded your webpages
to the wrong folder on the server. If you are
using FrontPage to publish your files, you
should automatically be publishing to the correct
folder. The location to publish your site should
be in the form of http://www.yourdomain.com
and
Not
ftp://www.yourdomain.com/folder. However,
should you be using FTP to upload your pages, please
be sure that your Remote Directory field is set
for "/". You should not use both
FrontPage and FTP together as it would cause the
frontpage extensions to be corrupted.
Publishing
a Web
Opening an Existing
Web
Troubleshooting
problems in FrontPage
Further
Microsoft FrontPage Support
Publishing
a Web
After you have built your html documents and are ready
to upload them to our
server:
1. Start Microsoft
Frontpage.
2. Open
the web you've created by selecting File > Open
Web . Select the directory where you have stored
all the html file you have created and click "Open".
3. Choose File
> Publish Web
4. If your "Destination
Web Server" doesn't appear in the Publish window
(it won't
the first time you publish to our server) CHOOSE "More
Webs" and type the
location of the web to publish to. Hit return.
IMPORTANT: Use http://www.yourdomain.com
as the Destination Web Server to publish to our server.
Leave the "Destination Web Name" BLANK.
5. You will
be asked for your USERNAME and PASSWORD. This is your
web hosting account USERNAME and your FrontPage PASSWORD. Your
FrontPage password is the password that you have provided
when you signed-up for our service.
6. You can watch the progression of the upload by
looking at the bottom left
corner of FP Explorer.
Opening
an Existing Web
1. Open FP Explorer and choose File > Open Front
Page Web.
2. You can now choose to open a previously created
web on your PC or your web
on our server.
3. Highlight the appropriate web or type in the web
address
(www.yourdomain.com) and click OK.
4. Enter your USERNAME and FP PASSWORD if required.
5. Make modifications and recalculate links if needed.
(See FP help docs for info
on when it's necessary to recalculate links.
Troubleshooting
Common Problems with Frontpage
Getting error - "Root
Web Busy"
FTP or telnet to your site and remove the "service.lck"
file in /_vti_pvt. This
usually happens when an FP session is interrupted
before completion.
Server timing out when
publishing large sites.
This difficulty arises when the uploading link times
out in the process of copying the web to our server.
The only suggestion Microsoft has offered so far is
to break the main web into a group of sub webs on
your PC, then upload these individually. If this problem
persists for you, please contact support.
Getting Error - "Front
Page Extensions not Installed"
We often see this error being reported even when the
extensions have been installed. If you get this error,
please contact support and we'll make sure the extensions
are installed and repair them if necessary.
NOTE: The extensions are easily corrupted.
If you have decided to use FrontPage Explorer to update
your web site on the server, do not use FTP.
I published but my web's
not there!
This will happen when the "Destination Web Name"
is filled in when publishing to
our server.
This box should be left blank. If you put any other
name in this box it will create a subdirectory off
of your root web and copy all of your files into it.
Your site will exist under a subdirectory instead
of at the top level "/" where it
should be.
My counter, bbs, guestbook,
etc isn't working.
These problems are generally due to incorrect permissions
on either the directory,
file(s) or cgi script(s) that are associated with
them. Please don't change the permissions of your
files or directories unless you have a specific reason
for doing
so and you know what effect it will have on your site.
Please ensure that you do not upload your website
using the FTP protocol from your Frontpage Program.
All Frontpage specific features will not work if you
upload your website using FTP from the Frontpage program.
My search bot doesn't
return any results.
The "/" directory must be world readable
AND you need to recalculate links BEFORE publishing
(or after editing directly on the server). If it still
doesn't work, FTP to the server and go to the /_vti_txt/default.wti
directory. Delete any files that begin with "ALL.".
Don't delete any other files. Then using Windows Explorer,
do the same thing on your PC. Recalculate links, test
locally with your browser and publish.
FP starts the Web Publishing
Wizard when I try to publish.
Cancel the operation and email
support to have the FP extensions installed/repaired.
Further
Microsoft FrontPage Support
If you need further assistance using FrontPage, go
to
http://support.microsoft.com/support/FrontPage/
