Please could someone help me, I've got a raq4 and to send my files to say for exapmle www.domain.com I set my FTP program to fto://www.domain.com with remote (or home) directory "/web". However I have got a customer who want's to do this with frontpage but he says that he has got no remote directary box to put "/web" in. Please could someone give me detailed instructions how to set frontpage up to send files via ftp to a site. This customer can manage to put his files in www.domain.com/~username but not in just www.domain.com. And I haven't ever used frontpage.
Could you send the detailes using ftp:// www.domain.com with username : user and password : pass to end up in home/sites/www.domain.com/web,

Richard

Richard:

If your customer is using FP than you need to enable FP Server Extensions for his site, and make his user admin for that site. Once you do this, the customer will publish via HTTP not FTP (File/puplish/http://www.mydomain.com), and it will automatically place the files in the proper directory.

If for some reason you don't want to enable FP extensions, the customer just needs to use the full path: ftp://mydomain.com/web/ in the dialogue box.

Mark

more details:

when publishing with FP the username is always 'webmaster'. the password is set in the 'site settings' area. it does not matter what the admin username or password is for that virtual site. it is not like regular FTP.

He has tried ftp://www.domain.com/web but he says that he still ends up in home/sites/www.domain.com/users/username . Frontpage is activated wut he still ends up in home/sites/www.domain.com/users/username,

Richard

he needs to publish to http://www.domainname.com with username 'webmaster' and password 'what-ever-you-set-in-sitesettings'. this will automatically put the files in the correct directory (/web).

the admin user account and normal FTP thinking has nothing to do with publishing with FP.

Thanks, I now understand,

Richard

I don't mean to disagree, but after reading your post I started FP 2000, made a small page change, published to HTTP://www.mydomain.com, logged in with the username that has admin privilages for that site, and it published just fine.


RIchard:
It would be MUCH better for your client to publish using HTTP and not FTP. Also, you may want to disable FP user web for that user.

Mark

He is using http now that I understand how to do it, what I didn't realise was that he had to use "webmaster" as username and not his own username. but this is only if frontpage extension are activated (which they are in this case).

Richard

I don't mean to disagree, but after reading your post I started FP 2000, made a small page change, published to HTTP://www.mydomain.com, logged in with the username that has admin privilages for that site, and it published just fine.

doing what you say above publishes to the 'user web' not the 'root web'. the website would end up at www.domainname.com/~username.

Originally posted by netastic


doing what you say above publishes to the 'user web' not the 'root web'. the website would end up at www.domainname.com/~username.

Not 100 % true. The siteadmin on the RAQ3 publishes to the /web directory, this was changed on the RAQ4, you have to use the username "Webmaster"