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Bill_G
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How to protect a folder from FP update? - 5/14/2003 19:32:29
I' ve been away from FP for awhile since I created a site and handed it off to someone else. I' m just starting to experiment with a personal site again.
I would like to run a php script that manages a photo gallery using an sql database. No problem. Rather than ftp everything, I created a folder in my Frontpage web and copied the necessary files into that folder.
Used FP publish to send everything to the server.
Great news, everything went just fine and I added couple of test images using the script on the site.
But now I' m thinking... if I publish again... I think FP will try to overwrite those files with the original versions. That is not what I want.
What I want to do is just have FP ignore that folder (and sub folders) from now on.
This seems like an occassion to use a sub-web... but I' m not sure.
Any suggestions as to how to make FP just ignore these folders?
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Bill_G
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RE: How to protect a folder from FP update? - 5/14/2003 19:55:01
Thanks for the reply.
As I recall, when you publish, you don' t get to choose folder by folder what is overwritten. It' s an all-or-nothing deal.
Another option that I was thinking could work....
Maybe there is a way to delete this folder from my FP web... but not delete it off the server. If I could accomplish that once... then I think the web would be clean and the php folder could sit out on the server unmolested.
Again, I' m open to ideas on this.
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wattle
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RE: How to protect a folder from FP update? - 5/14/2003 20:12:01
Hi Bill, I' m using FP2000. I' m not sure about applying a ' Don' t Publish' status for a whole folder but do use it on individual pages. Open up your web in Frontpage and go to folder view. Open the folder you do not want published. Right Click on a page, click on ' Workgroup' , then at the bottom of this check the box next to ' Exclude this file when publishing the rest of the web' . The can be very tedious if there are more than a few pages [:j]
For a quick view of the publish status of your pages go to View > Reports > Publish Status. The publish status can also be altered in this view, again using right click etc..
The method whosyadaddy posted (clicking no on overwrite) has worked for me as well but when I really, really, do not want something published I use the above.
Wattle
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Bill_G
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RE: How to protect a folder from FP update? - 5/15/2003 9:31:06
Okay... I can tell you what NOT to do.
Firrst, wattle' s suggestion is probably good for pages, but it won' t work on folders. You don' t get the Workgroup option when you right click.
Don' t try to convert the folder into a subweb. It will screw up the php script. I tried it and it the script was immediately broken.
What does work... delete the stuff out of FP altogether and publish the web. FP will clean it off the host. Then to use FTP to reload the scripts.
Thanks for the suggestions.
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If I want to pull files / folders out of Frontpage I just use Windows Explorer to move them about. So far so good, have not caused any damage or chaos and it helps a lot if you want the files away from the Frontpage buggy thingies 