Re: Trouble with importing an existing web site.

From: Thomas A. Rowe (tarowe_at_mvps.org)
Date: 01/29/05 

Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 23:23:20 -0500

Since you are opening a FTP site, which means there are no FP extensions, then there is no FP
configuration info available to be published back to your local machine. When FP publishes to a
server without the extensions, the configuration info for the site is not created (the extensions on
the server created the configuration files, as they are never published). You have to re-apply any
theme, re-build your navigation structure, redo any shared border or include pages, etc. 

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"jzawacki" <jzawacki@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
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> Thomas,
>
> I'm opening the remote site using "File > Open Site then connect to the
> remote site via FTP, then publishing the remote copy to the local machine. I
> don't understand why all of the features that are on the live site aren't
> being transfered to the local site.
>
> Thanks,
> John
>
>
> "Thomas A. Rowe" wrote:
>
>> How are you opening the live/remote site in FP?
>>
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>> "jzawacki" <jzawacki@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:1844FBE3-40CC-4121-8B92-BD15A6EE4445@microsoft.com...
>> > Andrew,
>> >
>> > I just tried as you suggested and I get the same results. The text and
>> > pictures are all there but the style sheets or templates (not sure of the
>> > correct technical term) aren't. Any other ideas?
>> >
>> > Thanks, John Zawacki
>> >
>> > "Andrew Murray" wrote:
>> >
>> >> Don't import the site; just open it and publish back to your computer - the
>> >> technical term is "Publish" not "Import".
>> >>
>> >> Open the live site via File > Open Site then connect to the remote site as
>> >> per the usual procedure, then Publish the remote copy to the local machine.
>> >>
>> >> "jzawacki" <jzawacki@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> >> news:57A38765-7287-4CD4-AD6D-9F2A19841A68@microsoft.com...
>> >> >A few weeks ago the PC I was using to create our web site on locally and
>> >> >then
>> >> > push the content to our remote hosting service crashed. I have since
>> >> > rebuilt
>> >> > the PC and reloaded Frontpage 2003. Since I didn't have a backup copy of
>> >> > our
>> >> > locally created web site I thought it would be a OK to simply copy our
>> >> > remote
>> >> > hosted site back down to the local PC and move on from there. The problem
>> >> > I
>> >> > am having is when I pull the current "live" web site down into Frontpage
>> >> > 2003
>> >> > to create a local copy, it only seems to be getting the text and pictures
>> >> > and
>> >> > not the style *** or template I originally used to create the sites
>> >> > appearance. Any idea as to why this is happening?
>> >> >
>> >> > Thanks, John Zawacki
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
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