FrontPage
Getting Started
Uploading Your Web
Creating New Webs
Troubleshooting

Assume your domain is hello.com

Location to publish to: hello.com
FTP server name: hello.com
Directory path: /
Username: As-sent-to-you
Passwd: As-sent-to-you

The first thing you want to do is create your web site, or "web" as it's called with FrontPage, on your own computer. Working on your own computer is much faster than directly off the server, plus it saves you on-line time and phone charges.

To create your web, make sure that the Personal Web Server is running, and launch Explorer. Select File-->New Web from the menu.

Choose Empty Web from the list (you can experiment with the other choices later), and press OK

Next it will ask you for the location for the new web. For Web Server, put localhost, and for Web Name, give your web a name.

Now if all went well, Explorer will ask you for your username and password and then create an empty web for you. In the header at the top it should say "http://localhost/webname"

Now you can begin creating your web pages. Launch FrontPage Editor (without closing Explorer). Now when you create a page and save it, it will automatically be saved in your web. Make sure to name your home page index.htm.

Once you've finished creating and testing out your web site, you can upload all the pages of your web site to our servers. To upload your web:

Open your web in Explorer (the web on your computer) and select File --> Copy Web from the menu. In Location, put www.yourdomain.com.

For the web name, select <Root Web>. Select Add to an Existing Web, as your <Root Web> has already been created.

Then enter your username and password once prompted to do so.

That's it. Now your entire web will be copied over to the server.

In addition to your <Root Web>, you can also create other webs in your directory. One web can be password protected, one web can contain a threaded-discussion board. There are tons of things you can do with FrontPage, and the best way to learn them is to experiment.

Here are some important things you need to know to create new webs:

1. The new web can be accessed as http://www.yourdomain.com/newweb
   For example, put the name of the web in the location box (www.yourdomain.com/newweb)
   and name the web "newweb". Now users will be able to access it with the above address (as long as you named your home page index.htm)
2. The web server has to be rebooted before you can actually use your new web. So when you first create your web on the server, it will create it and then give you an error (because it is trying to open your newly created web, but it cannot be used until the next morning). Just say OK to the error(s). The web servers are rebooted every morning. Just go back to Explorer the following day and see if you can open your web. If it opens then you know you successfully created it. Close the empty web and open your web on your computer (localhost). Select copy web from the file menu and for the location put www.yourdomain.com, for destination web server and the name of your web for web name.
3. You can also create a new web and select add to existing web (for example, to create an threaded discussion board). You don't have to have a separate web for everything, but sometimes it is needed (password protection, for example)

FrontPage98 allows you to easily create and maintain you web site.  When you open the program a box is opened that has the title "Getting Started".  This is where you open the various webs on different servers.   This box can also be accessed by going to, File-Open FrontPage Web.  Click on "More webs".  Type your domain name in the "Web Server Box".  Then click on list webs.  The you will see, "<root web>". This is the web that will open when you type in your domain name.  Double click on "<root web>". Enter your login and password. Now that the web is opened under the window labeled "View" click on "Navigation".  Once you have entered the navigation view you can start creating a layout for the site.  Using the new page button located on the left on the top tool bar  you can create the pages and name them.  To add content to these pages double-click on them and they will open in FrontPage Editor.  Once the page is edited save and close the editor and your pages has been edited or created on your account with us.  FrontPage98 helps you by doing all the uploading of images and HTML pages.  Also it helps in the editing of the web site.  When working with a FrontPage web open you are connected to our server.  This means that you must be connected to the Internet.

Building your website locally first

FrontPage allows you to build & test your website locally at your own computer before uploading it to us. To take full advantage of FrontPage Extension, you will need to install Personal Web Server. See FrontPage documentation for details about Personal Web Server. Below is a quick walk-through on how to create a web locally. Please refer to 'Getting Started with Microsoft(r) FrontPage(r)98' for more details.

1. Open FrontPage Explorer.
2. Choose New in the File Menu of the FrontPage Explorer.
3. Check 'From Wizard or Template' and select an appropiate template or wizard.
4. Click 'Change'.  Enter 'LocalHost/yourweb' in the text box.
5. Enter the title of the web you are creating.
6. Uncheck 'Add to Current Web'.
7. In the name and password boxes, type in the appropriate user name and password.
8. Create the web content.

Publishing your site

After you have developed and tested your website locally, you can upload it to our server using the publish web command with FrontPage.

1. Establish a connection to the Internet. (Important)
2. Open the local web you have developed
3. Choose Publish Frontpage Web in the File Menu
4. Enter the IP address (as specified on the activation notice sent by us) or www.yourdomainname.com in "Destination Web Server or File Location"
5. Leave the field "Name of Destination FrontPage Web" blank
6. Uncheck "Connect using SSL" if it is checked
7. In the Option area, check "Copy changed pages Only" and "Add to an
   Existing Web". Uncheck "Copy Child Web" if checked
8. Click OK.
9. When prompted for User Name and password, enter the user_id and password specified in your activation notice.
10. FrontPage will now publish your web which can take up to several minutes. It is very important that you do not abort anytime during the process of publishing; FrontPage will not function properly if this process is being aborted.

How do I change or update HTML pages within my web site?

Once you have published your web to our server, you can make changes in 2 ways.

Method 1 (Suggested)

Modify your local web and re-publish it again. Make sure you check "Copy changed pages only"

Method 2

Open the web located on our server and modify files as needed.

1. Establish a connection to the Internet. (Important)
2. Choose Open FrontPage Web in the File Menu
3. Enter www.yourdomainname.com in "Destination Web Server or File Location"
4. Click "List Web"
5. Select <Root Web>
6. Click OK
7. When prompted for User Name and password, enter the user_id and password in your activation notice
8. Edit files as needed
9. Close FrontPage Web when done

We strongly suggest you use Method 1 because it eliminates the need for Internet Connectivity and is faster. You can also use your local web as a backup copy.

If you are having any problems uploading, copying, or opening your webs, or with the non-FrontPage portion of your site, please be sure to note the following:

• If you have just created a new web on the server, remember that you can only open it and use it the following day after the web servers have been rebooted.
• Never use FTP or Telnet in those directories where you are using FrontPage. FrontPage will not see anything you manually upload, and any configurations you alter could cause big problems with your FrontPage extensions. NOTE: You can safely FTP to your /home/username/ directory to edit the .redirect file, mailing lists and other such files. You can also safely FTP to a sub directory within your www directory. BUT you must create a sub directory using your FTP program. This will not work if you created the sub directory using FrontPage .
• For information on how to use FrontPage, see the on-line help that comes with FrontPage. Microsoft also has some newsgroups and FAQ's devoted to FrontPage where you might find answers to your questions.
• FrontPage has a problem with the "copy web" command. This command uses HTTP instead of FTP to transfer the files and therefore will time out during an upload. It is recommended not to use the copy web command for files over 300K on a 28.8k connection, 150K on a 14.4k connection.
  

Common Problems with FrontPage

Getting error - "Root Web Busy"
FTP or telnet to your site and remove the "service.lck" file in /www/_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.  Please use only FP Explorer to update your web site on the server, not FTP.

Getting Error - "Could not write to file..." or "Could not close file..."
This is caused by not having any space left on your account. You will need to remove some files or upgrade your account. You can upgrade your account by emailing us.

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 /www where it should be.

FP starts the Web Publishing Wizard when I try to publish.
Cancel the operation and contact support to have the FP extensions installed/repaired.

Why is my page renamed on the server when I publish?
The "Default Document" of your web is automatically renamed by the server to what is required by the configuration of the server.  For example, if you've named the main page "index.html", it may be renamed "default.html".  Just check the links to your main page to make sure they refer to it the same way.

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