First,
FrontPage extensions will need to be installed on your
website. If you specified "Front Page Extensions"
during the ordering process, then they are installed
and ready to go. If you did not specify "Front
page Extensions" during the ordering process, please
contact support and we will set them up for you.
After this, go to the FrontPage Web you want to publish
and...
- Click
FILE in the upper-lefthand corner
of FrontPage, then click PUBLISH FRONTPAGE
WEB...
- Enter
your domain in the box titled "Publish FrontPage
Web".
- Enter
the username/password you were assigned when your
account was set up.
How To Connect With Frontpage if Your DNS Has Not
yet Propagated:
If
your site is IP-based, you will need to use your IP
to connect until your domain name propagates.
If your site is name-based, you will need to enter the
server's IP into your local pc's "hosts" file.
This will tell your pc the new location of your site
and allow you to connect.. To edit your pc's "hosts"
file, do the following:
From
your Windows© desktop, click "Start",
then "Run", and then type the following depending
on your version of windows::
Win98
and WinME... edit c:\windows\hosts
Win2K.................... edit c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
WinXP Home/Pro..... edit c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
From
there, you will be given a MS DOS Editor window where
you will type in the server's IP and then your domain
name, seperated by a couple of spaces, like so:
127.0.0.1
test.domain.com
For
instance, if your domain name was "domain.com"
and your server's IP was 69.41.227.18, here's what your
hosts file entry would look like:
69.41.227.18
domain.com
This
tells your local computer that "domain.com"
is located at the IP address 66.41.227.18. Please note
that "domain.com" and "www.domain.com"
are not the same thing in the eyes of the hosts file.
In the example above, "domain.com" would take
you to 69.41.227.18, but "www.domain.com"
would take you to wherever domain.com was formerly located.
If you wanted "www.domain.com" to also resolve
to the new location, you would have to specify it seperately
on its own line:
69.41.227.18
domain.com
69.41.227.18
www.domain.com
In
the above example, you could now connect with or without
the "www".
Try
it, it's a whole lot easier than it looks. Just don't
forget to remove the hosts file entries after a few
days, once the dns has propagated to the rest of the
world.
It's
worth noting that the above workaround is not due to
any shortcomings in our software, servers, or network.
This is just one of those situations where the flaws
inherent in the DNS system, and perhaps to a greater
degree, Frontpage, become apparent.
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