Subweb confusion

[Martin Stabrey]

I have managed to understand the workings around setting
up separate permissions (to restrict access) in a subweb,
but now am confused by this:

I have a local (offline) version of a web which won't
allow me to convert a folder to a subweb (FP gives me a
long error message, something to do with disk-based etc.
etc.) - so I'm having to publish the site, then convert
the specific folder to a subweb while online.
That then leaves with two differing versions - my local
version (a FOLDER) and the online version (with the
folder having been converted to a subweb).
Because of this, if I want to change something on the
restricted subweb, I can only do so on the online version.

So I appear to be stuck at not being able to convert a
folder to a subweb on my local machine. Is this possible
or are there any tricks to keeping both the offline on
online versions the same ie. not a folder on one and a
subweb on the other.

<<Geez, I hope this makes sense >>

Mart

 

[Ronx]

Using FP2000 and later I have never had any difficulty in creating or
nesting subwebs within disc-based webs.
However, if you open a *server* based web as a disc based web, and attempt
to create a subweb within it, then an error message results which tells of
parent webs that would not be disc based.
If this is your error, then open your web as http://localhost/webname...
instead of C:\inetpub\wwwroot\webname... and create subwebs as needed.
This assumes that you have PWS or IIS installed and running on your local
machine.

HTH
Ron

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

Disc based webs can have subwebs and nested subwebs in FP2000+

The key is they must be under the root web of the disc based web, and FP is happier if you start your disc based webs at the top
level of your hard drive (no spaces in folder names) as say C:\MyWeb

The user should create an empty root web folder in Windows Explorer - say C:\wwwWebName
Then open the online web in FP and use File Publish All (including subwebs) - then browse to the new folder C:\wwwWebName
The old local can then be deleted in FP

PS - yes your subwebs can be "separate" webs (not nested), but that makes web management more difficult and will always show links
across them as broken - & unverifiable




| Take the local folder that you want to convert out of the subweb. The issue
| is disk-based webs, which are what you have when you aren't running against
| a web server, can't have subwebs. What may work better actually is to create
| a new blank web outside this web, then importing the files from the folder
| into it. Then, if it works ;-), delete the problem folder from the first web
| and you should be OK. Now you have two distinct webs and you can publish
| them independently. The key is, webs are totally self-contained. A web
| server can have nested subwebs because the web server isolates the two webs.
| When using disk-based webs you can't have nested subwebs as they don't have
| the ability to be seperate entities and must be kept in seperate directories
| such as c:\mywebs\subweba and c:\mywebs\subwebb
|
| Hope this helps,
| Mark Fitzpatrick
| Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
|
| | > I have managed to understand the workings around setting
| > up separate permissions (to restrict access) in a subweb,
| > but now am confused by this:
| >
| > I have a local (offline) version of a web which won't
| > allow me to convert a folder to a subweb (FP gives me a
| > long error message, something to do with disk-based etc.
| > etc.) - so I'm having to publish the site, then convert
| > the specific folder to a subweb while online.
| > That then leaves with two differing versions - my local
| > version (a FOLDER) and the online version (with the
| > folder having been converted to a subweb).
| > Because of this, if I want to change something on the
| > restricted subweb, I can only do so on the online version.
| >
| > So I appear to be stuck at not being able to convert a
| > folder to a subweb on my local machine. Is this possible
| > or are there any tricks to keeping both the offline on
| > online versions the same ie. not a folder on one and a
| > subweb on the other.
| >
| > <<Geez, I hope this makes sense >>
| >
| > Mart
|
|