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If your Web server and operating system are compatible with the FrontPage
Server Extensions, ask your service provider to install them. If the
FrontPage Server Extensions do not currently support your Web server and
operating system, you can submit a suggestion asking Microsoft to provide
extensions for your server. Microsoft welcomes suggestions or comments
about changes in functionality and product design. You are invited to
submit suggestions by filling out the form at the following Microsoft
Web site:
NOTE: To determine whether your server and operating system are compatible
With the FrontPage Server Extensions, please see the following Microsoft
World Wide Web site:
Avoiding Browse-Time WebBot Components
Most WebBot components affect the Web only at authoring time. For
example, a WebBot Include component or WebBot Table of Contents component
affects the page it is on only when that page or some other page is
created or modified. These WebBot components are inactive at browse-time.
However, some WebBot components, especially those that are used
with forms, rely on the FrontPage Server Extensions at browse-time.
If you are transferring your files to a Web server on which the
FrontPage Server Extensions are not installed, you should avoid
using the following WebBot components:
WebBot Confirmation Field component
WebBot Discussion component
WebBot Guest Book component
WebBot Registration component
WebBot Save Results component
WebBot Scheduled Image component
WebBot Scheduled Include component
WebBot Search component
If you use any of these WebBot components, customers who browse your Web
Site may receive an "HTTP 404" error when using the corresponding form.
Avoiding FrontPage Image Maps in FrontPage 1.0
Image maps created with FrontPage 1.0 rely on the FrontPage Server
Extensions at browse-time. To avoid problems at browse-time, you should
use The image map utility that is supported by your Web server.
FrontPage 1.1 is capable of generating both client-side image maps and
native image maps for several server types. For more information about
this feature, click Web Settings on the Tools menu in FrontPage Explorer,
and then click the Advanced tab. When a browser is capable of using a
client-side image map, it will use this instead of a server-side image map.
Avoiding Server Incompatibilities
If possible, develop your content on the same type of Web server that you
are using for your target Web server. If this is not possible, avoid
incompatibilities between your working server and your target server.
Some potential trouble areas include the following:
Access Control:
Access control does not carry over between Web servers of different
types. You will have to re-enter any access control information for the
new server.
File Name Extensions:
Different Web servers may have different rules for mapping file
name extensions to Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) types.
For example, a Windows-based server may recognize only .htm as HyperText
Markup Language (HTML), while a UNIX-based server may recognize only .html.
NOTE: You can reconfigure your working server to match the target server.
The FrontPage wizards and templates generate pages that have the .htm
extension. If possible, you should make sure that your target server
recognizes the .htm extension for HTML files.
Default Pages:
Different Web servers have different conventions for naming the default
page. For example, the CERN server recognizes Welcome.html (among
others) by default, while NCSA 1.4 recognizes Index.html. Note that you
can reconfigure your working server to match the target server. FrontPage
will create the home page document with whatever name the working
server provides.
For additional information about configuring the default homepage for the FrontPage Personal Web Server, click the article number below
to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
150681 FP: How to Use a Document Other Than Index.htm as Default Page
Transferring the Content
Once your content has been developed and tested on your working server,
you can copy or transfer the files via File Transfer Protocol (FTP) to the
target server. The following files and folders should not be transferred:
All folders beginning with _vti_:
These folders contain information for use only when the FrontPage
Server Extensions are present.
Access Control Files:
These files vary depending on the type of Web server. In general, you
should remove all files that begin with a period if you are transferring
files to a UNIX server, and you should remove all files that begin with
the number sign (#) if you are moving files to a Windows-based server.
NOTE: If you are using FrontPage 1.1, you can obtain the Microsoft Web
Publishing Wizard to automate the FTP process. It will warn you if your
Web contains files that will not work on a server that does not have the
FrontPage Server Extensions. And, it will copy only the files that do work
to the destination server. You can download the Web Publishing Wizard from
the following Microsoft World Wide Web site:
For additional information about publishing your web to a server that does nothave the FrontPage Server Extensions installed, click the article number below
to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
181127 FP: How to Publish Your Web to a Server w/o FrontPage Extensions