Publishing with Front Page

What to have on hand prior to publishing

Get the following information from your Web hosting company before publishing. This will ensure minimal errors and problems when connecting to the Web server.

	Get the FTP host, at UAA it's one of these: students.uaa.alaska.edu for the student web server hosting.uaa.alaska.edu for the faculty and staff web server yoursite.uaa.alaska.edu for department websites If you're not sure what your FTP host is, contact callcenter@uaa.alaska.edu or 786-4646

	Your home page should be named index.html or index.htm

	Make sure you know what your disk space limit is on the Web server.

How to publish with FTP

Part 1: Open a FrontPage Web site

On the File menu, click Open Site.
In the Open Site dialog box, use the Look in box to find the folder containing your Web site.
Select the folder you want, and then click Open.

Part 2: Set up your remote Web site

Click the Web Site tab. At the bottom of the window, click the Remote Web site button.

Tip You can also access the Remote Web site view on the View menu. Or, you can access it by clicking the Publish command on the File menu.

At the top, click Remote Web Site Properties.

Under Remote Web server type, click FTP.

In the Remote Web site location box, type the FTP host name that was given to you by your hosting company.

If your hosting company provided an FTP directory, then type it in the FTP directory box and click OK.

Note If you were not given an FTP directory, be sure to leave this box blank.

Enter the name and password that your hosting company gave you, and then click OK.

FrontPage will attempt to connect to the server. When it successfully connects, the Local Web site will appear on the left, and the Remote Web site will appear on the right.

If you receive an error, try one or more of the following:

Make sure your Internet connection is intact.
If you are behind a firewall, make sure you install special firewall software recommended by your IT department, help desk, or network administrator.
Go back to Remote Web Site Properties and review the information you entered to see if there are any typos or misspellings.
Make sure you correctly enter the user name and password that was given to you by your hosting company.
Click Passive FTP.

Part 4: Publish files

Do one of the following:

To publish all new or changed files, click Local to remote in the lower-right corner, and then click the Publish Web site button.

To download files from the remote site to the local site, click Remote to local in the lower-right corner, and then click the Publish Web site button.

To synchronize both remote and local sites so that they are the same, click Synchronize in the lower-right corner, and then click the Publish Web site button.

Tips

Look at the Status at the bottom of the screen. It will tell you if the publishing process was successful, and when it was completed.

You can also click the link to the log file if you want even more publishing information.

If you don't want to publish a file, right-click it and then click Don't Publish. This will exclude it when you click the Publish Web Site button.

You can remove a file from either location by selecting it and then clicking the Delete button .

Click the Refresh button if more than one person is publishing to the remote Web site and you think your view might not be up to date.