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JoelMurdoch -> Uploading to a new server (3/26/2002 18:57:05)

Greetings all,

Thanks for all the responses on the previous thread, but they haven't really provided the insight I was looking for. I'll explain the situation from the ground up and perhaps that will let you all get a better perspective.

My client has a website he developed in FrontPage 98. He previously was publishing to a (presumably) NT server's root directory but the extensions never worked. Now my company has taken over his hosting, and before giving him the login details I activated the FrontPage extensions system and our tech guy swears they work fine. The only problem is that FrontPage is still trying to publish to the root directory when it needs to go in "public_html". I've searched high and low but cannot find out how to get it to publish to an alternative directory.

The only instructions I found caused the aforementioned "Need Author Permission for <Root Web>" error. And yet it's not a server permissions problem; if that were the case he wouldn't have been able to publish to the root directory.

Thanks again,
Joel.



Gil -> RE: Uploading to a new server (3/26/2002 19:00:10)

As long as you are publishing to http://domain.com/ it shouldn't matter?

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JoelMurdoch -> RE: Uploading to a new server (3/26/2002 19:53:46)

Gil,

With UNIX servers it does. Our UNIX server has several directories off the root including mail, ftp and html directories. You can put files in the root directory but they won't be picked up by the web server software and dished out to the browser. I checked after he did his first publish and they had indeed gone to the root directory.

Joel.




JoelMurdoch -> RE: Uploading to a new server (3/26/2002 20:00:17)

Actually I get what you're saying now. I'll give that a try, but if anyone else has other ideas please pitch in.




caywind -> RE: Uploading to a new server (3/26/2002 21:25:41)

symlinks!
need to have that UNIX box set up with a symbolic link to /hisaccount/user/www/htdocs or whatever the path is to the website directory.

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