Web Server for Testing My FP Web

M

Mike

How can I test my web site, like the search feature,
without having to upload the site to a remote server? I
have XP Pro. Does it include a personal web server for
testing a web site locally?
 
M

Mark Fitzpatrick

It includes a copy of Internet Information Server 5.1. You can install it
through the Control Panel | Add/Remove Programs | Add/Remove Windows
Components and select IIS.

Hope this helps,
Mark Fitzpatrick
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
 
T

Tom Pepper Willett

Plus, also install the FP server extensions when installing IIS.
And, be sure to get all the patches/updates from MS.
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| It includes a copy of Internet Information Server 5.1. You can install it
| through the Control Panel | Add/Remove Programs | Add/Remove Windows
| Components and select IIS.
|
| Hope this helps,
| Mark Fitzpatrick
| Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
|
| | > How can I test my web site, like the search feature,
| > without having to upload the site to a remote server? I
| > have XP Pro. Does it include a personal web server for
| > testing a web site locally?
|
|
 
M

Mike

Are the FP server extensions already on my hard drive
since I already installed FP 2002 on my desktop?
 
M

Mike

Mark and Tom,

I went to the section you suggested, Mark, and if I
select to install the IIS Windows Component, I am given
the option of 7 different things that I can install when
I click the "Details" button for IIS. They are:

Common Files
Documentation
File Transfer Protocol Service
FP 2000 Server Extensions
IIS Snap-in
SMTP Service
WWW Service

Six of these are selected by default. One of them, File
Transfer Protocol Service, is not. Should I keep the
default? All I want to do is to be able to test the
search feature out locally on the new web site that I am
working on.

Thanks,

Mike
 
J

Jens Peter Karlsen[FP MVP]

Unless you want to run an FTP server locally you shouldn't install it.
So pick the default.


Regards Jens Peter Karlsen. Microsoft MVP - Frontpage.
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike [mailto:[email protected]]
Posted At: 23. september 2004 04:18
Posted To: microsoft.public.frontpage.client
Conversation: Web Server for Testing My FP Web
Subject: Re: Web Server for Testing My FP Web


Mark and Tom,

I went to the section you suggested, Mark, and if I select to
install the IIS Windows Component, I am given the option of 7
different things that I can install when I click the
"Details" button for IIS. They are:

Common Files
Documentation
File Transfer Protocol Service
FP 2000 Server Extensions
IIS Snap-in
SMTP Service
WWW Service

Six of these are selected by default. One of them, File
Transfer Protocol Service, is not. Should I keep the default?
All I want to do is to be able to test the search feature out
locally on the new web site that I am working on.

Thanks,

Mike
-----Original Message-----
It includes a copy of Internet Information Server 5.1. You can install it
through the Control Panel | Add/Remove Programs | Add/Remove Windows
Components and select IIS.

Hope this helps,
Mark Fitzpatrick
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage




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T

Thomas A. Rowe

No.

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W

Wes

I don't know what all the hoopla is about testing on your own PC when you
already have a live site to test on. Publish it and test it the way
everyone will see it.! Gawd, just make your site with an obscure index
(like mytestsite.html) and only you will know how to get to it. (ya know
http:// my sitedotwateva/mytestsite.html).
You can test other stuff the same way, just don't make a link to it. After
you've tested it, create the link and have it available.
 
C

Chris Leeds, MVP-FrontPage

I used to do what you're saying, only I found it was best to do this in a
"subweb" just for preservation of my sanity.

there are reasons to test on a local server such as if you're working on
some serverside scripting such as .asp/vb or PHP scripting etc. it becomes
cumbersome to publish the file/ files as many times as it takes to fix stuff
sometimes. ;-)



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W

Wes

Yes, I publish to a nearly empty subweb for testing.
And yes there may be times when one really NEEDS to test locally.
From the questions I see here about IIS and stuff, I'm not gonna go there.
 
S

Steve Easton

IIS is like anything else. Once you figure it out it's easy.

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C

Chris Leeds, MVP-FrontPage

honestly, if you just take IIS as it comes with windows xp pro it's
virtually "invisible", where you really don't have to "deal" with it. I
know only a very little about servers and even less when I installed it from
the xp cd.

it's not all that bad, for simple testing. I would never even consider
running a server for actual websites or trying to host my own site etc.

HTH

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