Re: How do I publish a website I created to the internet?

From: Ronx (ronx917_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/05/04 

Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 13:53:31 -0000

If there is no database involved there should not be any problems, provided
the desktop can cope with the combined load of publishing and visitors -
find a quiet time to publish.

Any database may present problems, especially if it updated by visitors. In
this case you may have to disable the active pages, publish the database,
then restart. However, any updates on the old database from then onwards
will not be added to the new. It can take up to three days for DNS to be
updated, though on an intranet DNS updates could be instant. 

-- 
Ron Symonds   (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
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"Larry Barnhill" <LarryBarnhill@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:598A4077-76A5-4548-862F-514B0F86E358@microsoft.com...
> Sir,
>
> I have read all the replies to the original post, and they were all 
> helpful,
> in one way or another. However, none of the comments answer a question I 
> have
> ( also as a newbie to publishing). My question is, "Can an active website 
> be
> published?". That means, I have, on a local intranet, a 60GB web site, 
> that
> is constantly being visited.
>
> It is on a Dell desktop. I must move it to a Dell Server with a large 
> raid.
> Must I shut down and stop the current web site to publish it to the 
> server?
>
> Thank you for your time.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Larry Barnhill
>
> "Chuck Davis" wrote:
>
>> From FrontPage HELP
>> About publishing files and folders
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>> Important  When you publish the files in your Web site in
>> Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003, be aware that there are
>> two kinds of Web sites: a local Web site and a remote Web site:
>>
>> The local Web site is the source Web site that is open in
>> FrontPage. A local Web site can be stored on either a local
>> hard disk drive or a server.
>> The remote Web site is the destination site to which you
>> are publishing. Similarly, a remote Web site can be stored
>> on either a local hard disk drive (if it is acting as a Web
>> server, as in the case of http://localhost) or a remote Web
>> server.
>>
>> Overview of publishing a Web site
>>
>> When you publish a Web site, you move all or a selected
>> group of the files and folders that make up the site from
>> one location to another. In Office FrontPage 2003, you
>> publish your site when you want to make it available for
>> site visitors, when you want to make a backup copy of your
>> site, or when you want to update a published site with new
>> content.
>>
>> Generally, you create files and folders for your Web site
>> on your computer. When you are ready to let site visitors
>> see your site on the World Wide Web or on your
>> organization's intranet, you publish them to a Web server
>> that is maintained by a server administrator or an Internet
>> service provider (ISP) (ISP: A business that provides
>> access to the Internet for such things as electronic mail,
>> chat rooms, or use of the World Wide Web. Some ISPs are
>> multinational, offering access in many locations, while
>> others are limited to a specific region.). Now site
>> visitors can view your Web pages by using a Web browser.
>>
>> There may be times when you want to make a copy of your Web
>> site and then save it to a particular location on your hard
>> disk drive or on a network drive. The publishing feature in
>> FrontPage is a convenient way to make a backup copy.
>>
>> When you update your Web site with new files or folders,
>> FrontPage uses specific terms to distinguish between the
>> source site and the destination site. A local Web site is
>> the source Web site that is open in FrontPage, and a remote
>> Web site is the destination site to which you are publishing.
>>
>> Using Remote Web Site view to publish
>>
>> You can publish in both directions when in Remote Web Site
>> view, where files move easily between local and remote
>> locations. This can be most helpful when you are updating a
>> site you have already published.
>>
>> Remote Web Site view displays icons, with descriptive text,
>> in both the local and remote Web site panes to indicate the
>> publish status of your files.
>>
>> You can use Remote Web Site view to publish your files to
>> any location. You can publish your site to an extended Web
>> server (Web server: A computer that hosts Web pages and
>> responds to requests from browsers. Also known as an HTTP
>> server, a Web server stores files whose URLs begin with
>> http://.), to Web servers that support File Transfer
>> Protocol (FTP) (FTP: A communication protocol that makes it
>> possible for a user to transfer files between remote
>> locations on a network. This protocol also allows users to
>> use FTP commands, such as listing files and folders, to
>> work with files on a remote location.) or Web-based
>> Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) (WebDAV: An
>> application protocol for publishing and managing files on
>> the World Wide Web. It provides support for storing
>> information about a file, so authors can change a file and
>> its properties without overwriting other changes to that
>> file.), or to a location on your computer.
>>
>> Deciding where to publish
>>
>> Before you can publish your files to the destination site,
>> you must set the Remote Web Site Properties to reflect the
>> remote Web site.
>>
>> Publish files and folders to an extended Web server
>>
>> In Microsoft FrontPage, an extended Web server is one that
>> is running FrontPage 2000 Server Extensions from Microsoft
>> or later, Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services, or
>> SharePoint Team Services v1.0 from Microsoft.
>>
>> There are several benefits to publishing to a Web server
>> that is running the FrontPage Server Extensions (FrontPage
>> Server Extensions: A set of programs and scripts that
>> support authoring in FrontPage and extend the functionality
>> of a Web server.) or Windows SharePoint Services. Your Web
>> site will have enhanced functionality when it is published,
>> allowing you to use form handlers (form handler: A program
>> on a server that is executed when a site visitor submits a
>> form. A form in FrontPage is associated with a form
>> handler.) and hit counters (Hit Counter component: A
>> component in FrontPage that keeps track of the number of
>> visitors to a World Wide Web site.). FrontPage will also
>> maintain your files and hyperlinks (hyperlink: Colored and
>> underlined text or a graphic that you click to go to a
>> file, a location in a file, a Web page on the World Wide
>> Web, or a Web page on an intranet. Hyperlinks can also go
>> to newsgroups and to Gopher, Telnet, and FTP sites.) each
>> time you publish the Web site.
>>
>>
>> Important  When you are publishing or synchronizing between
>> Web sites based on SharePoint Services, certain elements,
>> including list data, schemas, and Web Parts, will not be
>> transferred.
>>
>>
>> Publish files and folders to a server that supports WebDAV
>> or FTP
>>
>> You can publish files and folders in your Web site to
>> servers that support Web-based Distributed Authoring and
>> Versioning (WebDAV) (WebDAV: An application protocol for
>> publishing and managing files on the World Wide Web. It
>> provides support for storing information about a file, so
>> authors can change a file and its properties without
>> overwriting other changes to that file.) or File Transfer
>> Protocol (FTP) (FTP: A communication protocol that makes it
>> possible for a user to transfer files between remote
>> locations on a network. This protocol also allows users to
>> use FTP commands, such as listing files and folders, to
>> work with files on a remote location.). Multiple users can
>> use Microsoft FrontPage and Macromedia Dreamweaver to edit
>> the same site over FTP. It's important to note that in most
>> cases the source control functionality in FrontPage is
>> turned off by default. When you turn source control on, do
>> not regard it as a secure file-locking mechanism.
>> FrontPage also supports passive FTP. Passive FTP allows you
>> to publish files and folders from the local Web site to the
>> remote Web site by using a different port (port: One of the
>> network input/output channels of a computer running TCP/IP.
>> On the World Wide Web, it usually refers to the port number
>> a server is running on. One computer can have many Web
>> servers running on it, but only one server can run on a
>> port.) each time.
>>
>> When you use Remote Web Site view to publish your files or
>> folders to a server that supports FTP or WebDAV, you must
>> know the server name as well as your user name and
>> password. If you are unsure about your user name, password,
>> or server location, contact your Internet service provider
>> (ISP: A business that provides access to the Internet for
>> such things as electronic mail, chat rooms, or use of the
>> World Wide Web. Some ISPs are multinational, offering
>> access in many locations, while others are limited to a
>> specific region.) (ISP) or Web site administrator.
>>
>> Publish files and folders to a local hard disk drive or server
>>
>> You can publish the files and folders in your Web site to a
>> folder on your local file system or to a UNC (universal
>> naming convention (UNC): A naming convention for files that
>> provides a machine-independent means of locating the file.
>> Rather than specifying a drive letter and path, a UNC name
>> uses the syntax \\server\share\path\filename.) path. For
>> example, you can make a backup copy of your entire Web site
>> by publishing it to a new disk-based location, such as
>> C:\Backup.
>>
>> Publishing files and folders rather than just copying them
>> ensures that they will maintain their structure and that
>> the Microsoft FrontPage components (component: A built-in
>> FrontPage object that is evaluated and executed when an
>> author saves the page or, in some cases, when a site
>> visitor goes to the page. Most components generate HTML.
>> Components include search forms, and Save Results form
>> handlers.) on your Web pages will work.
>>
>> Choosing the files to publish
>>
>> By default, all files are marked for publishing. By using
>> Remote Web Site view in Microsoft FrontPage, you can choose
>> which files will be published and which will be held back.
>> There are some files that you should not republish. For
>> example, if your Web site has a guest book, republishing
>> the guest book file will cause it to be replaced by a blank
>> file. Other examples include pages with a hit counter (Hit
>> Counter component: A component in FrontPage that keeps
>> track of the number of visitors to a World Wide Web site.)
>> or discussion Web sites.
>>
>> Synchronizing files between sites
>>
>> In collaborative work environments, multiple authors may
>> update both the local and remote Web sites. Microsoft
>> FrontPage will compare the files in the local Web site to
>> the published files in the remote Web site.
>>
>> The following scenarios are examples of situations in which
>> local and remote versions of files require that you
>> synchronize them:
>>
>> You publish to a staging server to test the files before
>> making them visible to the public.
>> You change a file directly on the remote site, leaving the
>> local version of that file out of date.
>> Two people, one working on a local version of the Web site
>> and one working directly on the remote Web site, update
>> their respective versions of the same file.
>> Two people, working with copies of the same Web site on
>> their own computers, make changes to the same sets of
>> files, and both want to publish to the remote site.
>> If FrontPage detects a newer version of a file on your
>> local Web site, it will begin a synchronization to update
>> both the local and remote Web sites unless you specify
>> otherwise. You can also choose to publish from the remote
>> Web site to your local Web site.
>>
>> Security  When you synchronize files using the Remote Web
>> Site view, files on the remote site will be downloaded to
>> the local site. If malicious files were placed on the
>> remote site, the local site may be at risk. Be sure that
>> only trusted users have access to the remote site before
>> you attempt to synchronize files.
>>
>> Managing the files on the Web server
>>
>> If your Internet service provider (ISP: A business that
>> provides access to the Internet for such things as
>> electronic mail, chat rooms, or use of the World Wide Web.
>> Some ISPs are multinational, offering access in many
>> locations, while others are limited to a specific region.)
>> (ISP) or system administrator has given you a size limit on
>> the Web server (Web server: A computer that hosts Web pages
>> and responds to requests from browsers. Also known as an
>> HTTP server, a Web server stores files whose URLs begin
>> with http://.), file management is a necessity.
>> Periodically deleting unused or old files can keep the size
>> of your Web site down.
>>
>> Because Microsoft FrontPage automatically synchronizes the
>> files on your local hard disk drive, you must first delete
>> or move the files or folders on your local Web site. After
>> you publish your Web site, FrontPage will prompt you about
>> deleting the same files on the Web server.
>>
>> If your Web server uses the FrontPage Server Extensions
>> (FrontPage Server Extensions: A set of programs and scripts
>> that support authoring in FrontPage and extend the
>> functionality of a Web server.) from Microsoft or Microsoft
>> Windows SharePoint Services, FrontPage can also match other
>> actions on the Web server - such as moving or renaming
>> files - the next time you publish your Web site. FrontPage
>> will update your link bars (link bar: A collection of
>> graphic or text buttons representing hyperlinks to pages
>> both within your Web site and to external sites.), shared
>> borders (shared borders: Page regions reserved for content
>> that you want to appear consistently on all your Web pages.
>> Shared borders usually contain link bars, which contain
>> hyperlinks to the other pages and locations.), and
>> hyperlinks (hyperlink: Colored and underlined text or a
>> graphic that you click to go to a file, a location in a
>> file, a Web page on the World Wide Web, or a Web page on an
>> intranet. Hyperlinks can also go to newsgroups and to
>> Gopher, Telnet, and FTP sites.) on the Web server to match
>> the actions you performed on the local Web site.
>>
>> Notes
>>
>> On the View menu, if the Remote Web Site view option is
>> unavailable (appears dimmed), verify that you have named
>> and saved your Web page or site.
>> Before you can publish or synchronize your Web files, you
>> must set up a remote Web server type and remote Web site
>> location in the Remote Web Site Properties dialog box.
>>
>>
>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >I am new at publishing websites to the internet. I have
>> worked on maintenance
>> >in an exisitng website using FrontPage 2000 but never
>> posted one from
>> >scratch. Is there a free tutorial or article I can get?
>> >.
>> >
>>