I understand the concept, and that it allows one to use FrontPage's own brand of forms and goodies, but...

I have found that I need to set up FrontPage extentions on an account in order to publish directly from a program such as MS Word, or any program for that matter. Using WindowsXP, FP extentions -seem- to be needed in order to publish via the Network Addresses folder (Im on my windows 98 machine right now, so Im not sure if that is what it is called).

Now the question is this... Is it necessary to enable the FP extentions to publish right from Windows (besides FTP)? FP extentions take up space, and I dont use other functions, is there any other way to publish right from a windows program without them enabled?

Hope Im not all over the place. Thanks :)

FP extensions are the devil's meatballs. :)

They're just an example of Microsoft seeing the way things are done elsewhere and deciding to do their own thing regardless. As far as I know there isn't an MS program that will ftp to a server correctly without them. They're also involved in Frontpage's oddball coding for things like forms as well, so no extension, no form.

Having said that, if you're coding in Frontpage et.al and the code itself is vanilla html (unlikely), then you could just ftp it up with another program and it'll run.

Having changed more than one site from FP to standardized html before I can assure you anything built in those programs is going to be quirky at best without extensions installed on the account.

I personally use Dreamweaver and use ws-ftp (www.ipswitch.com) for ftp.

Greg Moore

TheMMIz,

FP extensions let you add forums, guestbooks, mail forms and other things to a front page web project. The extensions sit on the server and run the forum, guestbook, and other things. Like the above post said, you can just code your pages with frontpage, upload them via a plain FTP program and use 3rd party Perl/PHP forums and what not.

HI,

I went to Microsoft's website to find info on this. On this page:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnservext/html/fpse02win.asp

they have Front Page server extensions one can download. But they only list Microsoft OS platforms for the Front Page server extensions.

So, if one has a hosting company/web server running Linux or FreeBSD, is one not able to offer front Page extensions to customers wanting or needing to use them?

Thanks,

Louis

You can download frontpage for unix, which includes the redhat and bsd version from the following web site. Even though it is not Microsoft's page, the download is from Microsoft.

http://www.rtr.com/fpsupport/fp2002eula.htm

Great link, DaddyPops! Thank you very much.

After going to that site, I had some questions. Rather than post them here I thought it best to start another thread to prevent "thread scope creep". FWIW, the new thread asking about the effects of these Front Page server extensions running on a Unix system is:

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=41458

Thanks again -- and take care!

Louis