FrontPage 2003 will only HTTP to latest domain

[Sarah]

I have several domains in my webspace, each in a separate folder. I have
FrontPage extensions turned on for each domain. However, I can only upload
using FrontPage HTTP to the most recently created domain. As I create new
domains, the earlier ones become inaccessible. I can still FTP to them using
FP, but obviously I lose some of the functionality of FP this way.

When I try to upload, I get a message telling me that FP extensions are not
turned on (they are), and the upload appears to default to the latest domain
anyway. I expect I'm being really dopey, but I can't find a way round this.
Can anyone help?

Many thanks,

Sarah

 

[Steve Easton]

How are you "creating" these new domains??


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[Sarah]

Sorry - my terminology is probably wrong. When I register a new domain and
point it to a folder I create for it on my webspace, that then becomes the
only one of my sites that I can upload to using FP HTTP. Does that make more
sense?

 

[Steve Easton]

I think I understand, let me see if I do.

If: by "registering a domain" you mean registering it with a "registrar" and then adding it to the
domain name system by entering it into the "name server" so the "name server" points to your new
domain......


For example you registered mysite.com and entered it into the name server.
mysite.com now works fine.

Then you add a folder named myfolder in your website, register a new domain which is
myweb/myfolder.com
and change the name server from myweb.com to myweb/myfolder.com

If this is the case, as far as the Domain Name System is concerned, myweb.com no longer exists

You would need to "add" myweb/myfolder.com to the system

Am I close here??


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[Ronx]

If the new domains are subwebs of the main webspace, then you have to
use FrontPage with the main webspace.
FrontPage uses information stored in the root of your webspace (among
the _vti* folders and files) that does not exist in subwebs. When you
publish to (or edit) http://mainwebspace.com/subwebname there is no
problem - all the data is available, however, when you use
http://newdomainname.com the root folder *is* the subweb, and that
info. is not available - hence the error message.

If you publish using the toolbar button, this defaults to the last
(sub)web you published to. Use File->Publish Web/Site to change the
destination subweb.

 

[Sarah]

I think you are, yes. I think my problem is that I don't really understand
the business of webspace, domains, sub-domains, DNS and so on. I think that
the biggest problem is probably my lack of understanding of DNS.

In my webspace I have several folders, each containing the files for a
different website and with the appropriate domain name (or two) pointed to
that folder. Each time I register a new domain name (with a registrar) I
create a new folder for that domain name and upload the files for that
website to that folder. This all worked fine (and still does) using FTP to
upload and amend sites, but doesn't now that I'm trying to use FP's HTTP
upload, and take advantage of some of the features that offers. Probably I
should have done this differently from the beginning, but I was largely
making it up as I went along. I had lost a great deal of money by paying a
web designer for a site that was never usable, and was so frustrated that I
decided to build one for myself!

So - all my sites exist as sub-folders of my webspace. None is stored in the
root directory of the space (if that's the correct term). My web host's
'help' told me that I couldn't have FP extensions turned on both in the main
webspace and in these sub-folders, so it's turned on for each domain
individually.

I guess from what you're saying (which is very helpful - thank you) that I
have to either restructure this system of folders or change the way I've
turned on FP extensions in my webspace. Have I understood this correctly?

 

[Sarah]

This is very helpful. Thank you. I see that it's my lack of understanding of
the structure of my webspace and the way in which FP works within it that has
caused the problem. I think I can probably sort it out now.

Thanks for being so patient, all!