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How to Create a New Web in
Microsoft FrontPage
- From the Start menu, point to Programs, and then
click Microsoft FrontPage. The FrontPage Explorer
starts.
- In the "Getting Started With Microsoft
FrontPage" dialog box, click to select one
of the three options under the "Create A New
FrontPage Web" section. Click OK.
If you selected the "From a Wizard or
Template" option, the New FrontPage Web
dialog box appears. In the Template Or Wizard
list, select the template or wizard you want to
use, and then click OK.
The Web Template dialog box appears.
- In the "Web Server or File Location"
box, type or select the web server or directory
you want to use.
If you installed a local Web server and the
FrontPage Server Extensions successfully, the Web
name already appears in this box. Select the
default and go to step 4.
NOTE: You can also specify "Localhost"
(without the quotation marks) as the server
location.
If you did not install a Web server locally and
you are not working with a remote Web server,
type the drive and directory where you want to
store the Web, and then click OK.
- In the "Name of New FrontPage Web" box,
type the name you want. The web name should be
one word and should not include spaces.
- If the Name and Password Required dialog box
appears, type your name and password in the
appropriate boxes, and then click OK.
The FrontPage Explorer builds the new web. The
web address is displayed in the title bar.
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How to Make a Web Page Display
Data from a Database
To start using the Internet Database Connector, use
the following steps:
- Make sure you have all of the following
components:
- Microsoft Personal Web Server, Microsoft Peer
Web Services, or Microsoft Internet Information
Server
- An ODBC Driver for your database management
system
- A database
- Create a system data source name using your ODBC
Driver. Q161172 in the Microsoft Knowledge Base
will explain the steps necessary to do this with
an Access Database
- Use the Database Results Page template or click
Database on the Edit menu in FrontPage Editor to
create detail sections, database column values,
IDC parameter values, if-then conditional
sections or else conditional sections as needed
- Run the Internet Database Connector Wizard using
the Database Connector Wizard template. Specify
the file for results as the file you created in
step 3 above. Specify the options requested by
the wizard and write your SQL statement to create
an .idc file
- Store the .idc file in an executable directory in
the Web server (any browser will be able to run
your query).
To activate the IDC file via hyperlink, point the
hyperlink at the IDC file. To activate the IDC
file from a form, select Internet Database
Connector as the Form Handler, then enter or
browse to the IDC file name to complete the link.
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HTTP 404 Error When Using Web
Publishing Wizard
When you use the Publish FrontPage Web command in
FrontPage 97, you may receive the following error when
you post to a Web server that doesn't have FrontPage
Server Extensions installed:
The server may not have the FrontPage Server
Extensions installed,or the server may be misconfigured,
or you may have specified aninvalid proxy server, or the
web you are accessing may have been deleted. HTTP error
404.
While the Web Publishing Wizard can create
subdirectories when you post files to an established
directory on a destination server, it cannot create the
Web directory it is posting to. The Web Publishing Wizard
is designed only to post files to an existing directory.
To avoid this error message, select the "Add to
an existing FrontPage Web" check box, and verify
that the directory listed in the "Destination
FrontPage Web" box exists on the destination server.
For more information about the Microsoft Web
Publishing Wizard, see the following Web site:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/software/webpost/
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Frontpage Repeatedly Prompts
for User Name, Password
This problem occurs when you attempt to open the
<Root Web> or create a new web from a remote
computer, if all of the following are true:
The computer hosting the web is using user-level
access control. (To locate this option, right-click the
Network Neighborhood icon, click Properties, and then
click the Access Control tab.)
-and-
The <Root Web> is hosted on the Microsoft Personal
Web Server.
-and-
There are no users or groups granted author or
administrator access (in the Users and Groups tabs of the
Permissions dialog box (Tools menu) for the <Root
Web>.
RESOLUTION
To resolve this problem and allow users (including the
original author of the Web) to author and administer the
<Root Web> or subwebs remotely, set permissions for
the <Root Web> or subwebs using FrontPage Explorer.
NOTE: The instructions below only apply to user-level
access.
1.In FrontPage Explorer, open the <Root Web>.
2.On the Tools menu, click Permissions.
3.Click the Users tab. Or, if you want to grant
permissions to a group, click the Computers tab.
4.Click Add.
5.In the Add Users dialog box, type the name of the user
in the Name box and the password in the Password and
Confirm Password boxes. Under User Can, click either
"Author and browse this web" or
"Administer, author, and browse this web."
Click OK.
6.Click OK.
To set permissions for each subweb, click Permissions
on the Tools menu, click the Settings tab, click
"Use unique permissions for this web," click
the Users or Computers tab, and then follow steps 1
through 6 for each subweb.
In Microsoft FrontPage, you do not need to set
permissions to author or administer webs locally from the
Microsoft Personal Web Server. In contrast, the FrontPage
Personal Web Server requires a name and password to
author or administer webs remotely and locally.
Administrators of a web can create or delete FrontPage
webs, designate administrators and authors, and restrict
access to a FrontPage web. Authors can create or delete
pages from a FrontPage web.
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How can I give a specific
userid and password to a FrontPage web using NT accounts?
The capability to add your own user accounts and apply
permissions is not yet present in NT, outside the ones
that are created through the use of POP accounts. This
will be added immediately after we finish the BETA and go
live. Until then you will be limited to applying
permissions to the POP users. NT security is tightly
integrated with the OS, a specific user needs to exist in
the NT Security directory before you can apply any type
of permissions.
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Publishing
FrontPage Webs
Establish a connection to the
Internet
(you MUST be online BEFORE beginning the
publishing process - FrontPage does NOT invoke a
dial-up connection)
Select File
| Open FrontPage Web and enter the name of
your local Web Server to open your web locally.
In FP Explorer, select File -> Publish FrontPage Web
The Destination
web server name should be www.[domain_name]
OR [ip address] for a new account.
The Destination
web name field should be left BLANK if you are
publishing to the root directory
Select the option "Add to an existing web"
(OR If you are publishing a new subweb (child
web) enter that name into the Destination Web Name field
and UNCHECK the box for "Add to an existing web").
Enter username/password when
prompted.
To replace the temporary Home Page with
your Home Page, you must do the following:
After the publishing process is complete,
DO NOT Recalculate Links.
Select File
| Close FrontPage Web, then
File | Open
FrontPage web
for Web
Server or file location, enter
www.[domain_ name]
or the [ip address] for a new account.
Click List
webs
Select the <Root Web>, then OK
This will open the web on the remote
server. You can then rename the temporary page (based on
the following information) to insure that your new page
is accessible.
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Home
Page File Names
The opening page file name hierarchy is
as follows:
Default.asp,
default.htm, index.htm, index.html
However, when you publish with FrontPage,
if your opening file has any of the above names, it will
be renamed to have ALL of the above. Highlight the page
named Default.asp, default.htm,
index.htm, index.html and select Edit | Rename. You may then rename
the file to ANY ONE of the four options.
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