|
|
This is part of WebCom's FrontPage documentation.
Introduction
The reason for this page is to explain and offer possible solutions to problems that might be encountered when using Microsoft Frontpage 98 to create or maintain "subwebs". These problems result from design limitations of the FrontPage 98 extensions. We have not experienced any these problems when using Microsoft Frontpage 97 with the FrontPage 97 extensions. If you have questions about using subwebs with FrontPage 97, please consult your documentation, or contact Microsoft for assistance.
A subweb is a part of a FrontPage web whose contents are contained in a subdirectory, to keep it apart from the rest of the web. This is most often done for parts of the web that are unrelated in topic to the rest of the website, or technically different from the rest of the website, (such as the discussion web, which creates many discussion-related files that need to be kept together). The following documentation covers:
Planning your FrontPage webs and subwebs
One unexpected problem with FrontPage 98 is that the server extensions incorrectly identify all directories under the root web directory as subwebs. This can cause problems when trying to manage more than one FrontPage web in a single account, because FrontPage can incorrectly think that one web is a subweb of another.
In your WebCom account, you can have multiple domains names pointing to separate directories so that each domain goes to a different web site. The directories that you can point a domain name to are the www directory, and any directory in the file structure under it. (See Fig. 1 below.) If you have one domain pointing to the www directory, and one pointing to a subdirectory, FrontPage will assume that the subdirectory is a part of the site in the www directory. It will then prevent you from properly managing that site.
The solution to this is to configure all of your domains so that they point to subdirectories of your www directory, not your www directory itself. You can make this change using the same form you use when you configure your domain for use with FrontPage. This problem does not apply to you if you only plan on having one domain, but if you plan on having multiple domains, configure them to point to subdirectories. (See Fig.2 below.)
|
|
|
Dealing with subweb Errors
The FrontPage 98 extensions have a limitation that does not allow the creation or publishing of subwebs. This is a [bug] that we hope Microsoft will fix, but we don't know how likely that is at this time.
This problem manifests when the user tries to create a new subweb, or tries to publish a subweb. The error that the user gets is:
"Server Error: The web server you are using does not support creating, renaming or deleting of subwebs from the frontpage client. You must ask your ISP or webserver administrator to create, rename or delete your web for you."
This message is incorrect. What is happening is that the FrontPage client (the software on your local computer) asks the extensions to create the subweb. The extensions then create the subweb, along with the required _vti directories and files exactly as it is supposed to. Lastly, the extension report to the user that the task was unsuccessful. This results in FrontPage stopping its attempt to upload the subweb. The files are not published even though the subweb was successfully created.
We have found that a solution to this problem is to simply reopen the web that you are trying to publish, and try publishing again. We have been very successful with this method, and include brief instructions below.
From this point on, your subweb should function for you like a normal FrontPage web.
[an error occurred while processing this directive]