Working with Microsoft FrontPage Websites (Windows)

Microsoft FrontPage deals with two kinds of websites: disk-based and server-based. In short, a disk-based site is a FrontPage website you create on your local hard disk and then later publish to the server. A server-based site is one you create and work with directly on the server, without the extra step of publishing. This section provides you with instructions on publishing only disk-based websites.

You can publish disk-based websites either through FTP or HTTP. If your hosting server is running FrontPage Server Extensions, you would publish your site over HTTP. For example: http://your-domain.com/MyWebSite. If your hosting server supports FTP, you would publish to an FTP location. For example: ftp://ftp.your-domain.com/myFolder.

After publishing, you can manage your site through FrontPage Server Extensions.

To access FrontPage Server Extensions management interface:

1. If you have access to several subscriptions, select the required subscription in the Subscription box at the top of the screen. Or, to view sites of all your subscriptions, select All subscriptions.
2. Click the Websites & Domains tab and find the name of the website you want to manage in Frontpage.
3. Click FrontPage.
4. Do either of the following:
   • To manage a site over HTTP connection, click Frontpage Webadmin.
   • To manage a site over a secure SSL connection, if SSL support is enabled for the site, click Frontpage SSL Webadmin.
5. Type your FrontPage administrator’s username and password, and click OK.

For instructions on using FrontPage server extensions, see online help (Frontpage Webadmin > Help) or visit Microsoft website.

The following FrontPage settings are changeable through Plesk:

• The use of Microsoft FrontPage IIS Index Server for building the full-text index of your website.
• SMTP mail server and sender's email address. These options are applicable if you use FrontPage forms that submit information from your site by email. By default, SMTP server specified in the domain's DNS zone is used for sending mail. If no SMTP server is specified in the zone, then FrontPage uses the mail service running on the server where the domain (site) is hosted.

To change any of these settings:

1. Click the Websites & Domains tab and click the name of the website you want to manage in Frontpage.
2. Go to FrontPage > Settings.
3. Make the required changes and click OK.