Re: [cobalt-users] Raq3i Frontpage - Webalizer probs

[Elmer Fuddpucker <elmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Herby K wrote:

} Every user who is uploading its HP to the Server via FP is created as user
} NOBODY on the Server. So far no probs. But when they do a mixed upload,
} sometimes with ftp (then the User of the files is "USERNAME") and then again
} with FP its not possible because of an Error in FP "cannot change
} permissions".

	The real secret, if I may call it that, is to tell such
users to import the non- FrontPage content into FrontPage and then
let FrontPage upload it to the server for them. If FrontPage
can't handle it the average user probably shouldn't be using
FrontPage on that particular web site. But there is a way to make
FrontPage work with content that was FTP'd to the site.

	Assuming FrontPage 2000...

	After installing whatever it is that was installed by
some other means, rename the drive based (on the local machine) copy
of the site to something like sitename.back. Then open the live site
(the copy on the server) in FrontPage. Then select "Recalculate
Hyperlinks..." off the tool menu and do just that. Without doing
anything else (remember, this is the live site) publish a copy of
the site on the server to the local drive/disk. You'll more than
likely get a warning that some things won't work - just hit the
button on the warning screen that continues the publication. The
result will be a complete copy of the live site - non FrontPage
content included. Then close the live site and open the copy you
just published (make sure you publish it rather than save it) and do
another "Recalculate Hyperlinks..." (just to be on the safe side -
like the *nix 'man' command, Recalculate Hyperlinks is your friend).
Then select "All Files" from the reports menu. Then, for each and
every file that was uploaded or needs to be uploaded with something
other than FrontPage, select "Properties" off the resulting menu,
selecting the "Workgoup" tab and marking the box that reads "Exclude
this file when publishing the rest of the Web".

	Nothing to it. The proceedure can be shortened
considerably by a FrontPage 'power user' but everyone else should
go through all the steps listed above. Since one is working on a
live site there is a chance of the user screwing up the live site.
Additionally, if one doesn't publish the copy this proceedure won't
work. In other words, use this proceedure at your own risk and don't
call me if you trash your FrontPage web site... there's a good
chance that anyone who needs to use this proceedure but has to ask
how to do it will trash their site - if they knew enough to safely
do this kind of thing they wouldn't have to ask how to do it... but
I do this pretty much every day here and I've done it on a whole lot
of sites and, well, if one is careful to do this right, it will
indeed work.

	brent

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