Need advice on sub web strategy

[ADD]

I am new to FP2003. I want to create our family web site as follows:
http://myhost.mydomain.com/
Main landing page, from where other sub sites can be accessed.
Some of the sub sites will be password protected.
http://myhost.mydomain.com/subsite1
http://myhost.mydomain.com/subsite2, etc.
should all have their own URLs so that traffic can go directly to the sub
site.

Question: What's the cleanest and least hassle way to create and manage
these sub sites via FP? I am looking for best practices. Specifically, am I
better off creating a folder for the landing page, and then have subfolders
for the subsites, but publish each folder/subfolder separately? Or should I
go to each subfolder in FP and make subsites out of them, and then publish
all at once?

Thanks for any advice you can give me.

Best wishes,
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[Stefan B Rusynko]

You can do either, depending on the sizes of your subwebs and most importantly the support your host has for subwebs
(some only allow publishing of root webs w/ subwebs, other don't allow creating of subwebs thru publishing)
Your subweb "folders" need to be under your root web, not under other folders

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|I am new to FP2003. I want to create our family web site as follows:
| http://myhost.mydomain.com/
| Main landing page, from where other sub sites can be accessed.
| Some of the sub sites will be password protected.
| http://myhost.mydomain.com/subsite1
| http://myhost.mydomain.com/subsite2, etc.
| should all have their own URLs so that traffic can go directly to the sub
| site.
|
| Question: What's the cleanest and least hassle way to create and manage
| these sub sites via FP? I am looking for best practices. Specifically, am I
| better off creating a folder for the landing page, and then have subfolders
| for the subsites, but publish each folder/subfolder separately? Or should I
| go to each subfolder in FP and make subsites out of them, and then publish
| all at once?
|
| Thanks for any advice you can give me.
|
| Best wishes,
| -ADD

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

FYI: You have indicate in your example URLs that you will be using subdomain, and these may cause
problems with the FP extensions.

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[ADD]

Thomas, not sure I follow what you mean by subdomains. I have one public IP
address given to me by my ISP. This I have registered on my DNS hosting
service provider as
myhost.mydomain.com
The web server is sitting behind a firewall with a private (DHCP-assigned)
IP address which is not DNS registered.

For subsites, I would like:
http://myhost.mydomain.com/subsite1
http://myhost.mydomain.com/subsite2

where subsite1 corresponds to folder1 on my personal PC where I run FP2003,
and subsite2 corresponds to folder2, etc.

When publishing, should I be using the above URLs, or the "PC name" as known
on my private Intranet behind the firewall (e.g. ServerPC)?

Thanks,
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[Thomas A. Rowe]

A subdomain is the "myhost" part of the URL below

myhost.mydomain.com



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