Managing multiple overlapping websites

[Wolfie]

I have two websites that are ostensibly copies of one another. One is the
public version (www.domain.com), the other is the private test subdomain
(www.test.domain.com).

On my development system I have the same scenario with the 2 separate
websites. The one website is, for tha lack of a better explanation, a stable
backup point. The other is the test/development site.

When finished developing I publish the tested code to the
www.test.domain.com. Easy enough. Once the committee ok's the test
development, I want to publish this to the www.domain.com.

My problem is that FrontPage only allows me to publish to the test subdomain,
which is without FP extensions. But the latter I can ignore if I could only
later publish to the regular full domain from the test subdomain or
development test site.

FrontPage views the world like this:

[development backup] ------> [www.domain.com]

[development test] --------> [www.test.domain.com]

I need this;

[development backup] ------> [www.domain.com]
^
|
|
[development test] --------> [www.test.domain.com]

How is this done in the real world?

Thanks!

Randy

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

You should consider using a FP subweb / subsite instead, which would allow your to use the FP
extensions.

So your view would be:

[development backup] ------> [www.domain.com]

[development test] --------> [www.domain.com/test]

And then when approved, publish as follows:

[www.domain.com/test] --------> [www.domain.com]

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[Wolfie]

You should consider using a FP subweb / subsite instead, which would
allow your to use the FP extensions.

So your view would be:

[development backup] ------> [www.domain.com]

[development test] --------> [www.domain.com/test]

And then when approved, publish as follows:

[www.domain.com/test] --------> [www.domain.com]

Thank you very much Thomas!! I now have my once subdomain without FrontPage
extensions to now subweb with extensions. The actual method to do this was
not clear but with some futzing and google searches I found the most helpful
"How To" article.

http://www.outfront.net/tutorials_02/fp_techniques/frontpage-subwebs.htm

This article/url should be in the FrontPage FAQ.

Cheers!

-randy