FW: [cobalt-users] RAQ4 - Frontpage and FTP permissions - Cobalt, read this

["Carrie Bartkowiak" <admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

||>> Thus, when someone uploads with Frontpage, they are then
||>unable to alter
||>> these files in an FTP session because Frontpage has changed the
||>> ownership of
||>> FP files to 'nobody' I believe.   Example, if you attempt to
||>delete a file
||>> using FTP, but it has been uploaded with Frontpage, you get a 550 not
||>> allowed message from the FTP program.  This is not normal.  This
||>> should not
||>> happen.  I have verified that this happens on all of our RaQ4s.
||>> It seems to
||>> be a bug.

This is not a bug. When you use FrontPage, you aren't supposed to use FTP to
alter any of the files. All site administration is to be done through
FrontPage.
Just another of FrontPage's lovely <cough> features... (I hate FrontPage)

Dan wrote:
||>I think there needs to be a patch to stop people from trying to
||>use both FTP
||>and FrontPage to upload files. If you want to delete a file with
||>FTP don't
||>publish the file with FrontPage. If you delete a file with FTP from a
||>FrontPage web you will mess up the FrontPage web. Just open the site in
||>FrontPage and delete it.

I can't support Dan's message here enough. Two thumbs up!
FrontPage doubles the amount of space your web site takes up, it has
features that do
not work with Nutscrape and other browsers, it completely eats code that you
put in from
external sources (ie: banner exchanges, affiliate links, etc.) and is just
generally
NOT everything it is supposed to be. IMHO, the *only* thing FP is useful for
is image mapping -
and of course you cut that out of the FP page and paste it into your own
html page. ;)

Please don't touch your FrontPage files with FTP. Please don't touch your
FTP files with
FrontPage.
Hand code your HTML so everything shows up the way you want it to! That way
you don't have to
worry about cross-browser problems, your site taking up twice as much space
as it needs to, or
whether something is a Cobalt bug or a FrontPage limitation.  :)

Carrie Bartkowiak