Difference between revisions of "Frontpage Setup"

Revision as of 12:05, 9 June 2009

The FrontPage FTP method does not use FrontPage extensions. This is not the ideal way to ftp your files to your web space. For a more reliable alternative, please read our [FTP FAQ].

FrontPage 98

1. Create a web page and save it
2. In the FrontPage Explorer, click Publish
3. A box will come up asking you for a destination to publish to. Type in http://www.xmission.com/~username, where "username" is your user name
4. Click OK
5. After a long minute of searching, FrontPage will pop up the Microsoft Web Publishing Wizard. Where it asks you to fill in the FTP Server Name, type in ftp.xmission.com
6. Where it asks for a Directory Path, fill in /home/users/u/username/public_html where "u" is the first letter of your user name and "username" is your user name
7. Click Next
8. In the following box, you will need to fill in your user name and password. Under User Name, enter your user name
9. Under Password, enter your password
10. Click Finish

    Note: You will always get an error message when you do this and we have not discovered a way to resolve it. So far as we can tell, it's just trying to read the page back using extensions (which aren't set up for this). It doesn't seem to cause any problems with the page on the server. Just click OK when you get this error. It should read...

    "The server could not complete your request. Contact your Internet service provider or web server administrator to make sure the server has the FrontPage Server Extensions installed. For more specific information, click Details"