Publishing FrontPage Websites

To publish files through FTP:

1. Open your FrontPage program.
2. Open a FrontPage website: open File menu and select the Open Site item.
3. Go to Remote Web site view: click the Web Site tab, and then the Remote Web Site button at the bottom of the window.
4. Set up your Remote Web Site Properties:
   • Click the Remote Web Site Properties button in the upper-right corner of the window.
   • Select FTP as the remote Web server.
   • In the Remote Web site location box, type your host name (for example, ftp://ftp.your-domain.com)
   • In the FTP directory box, type your FTP directory if your hosting company provided one. Leave it blank if they did not specify one.
   • Select the Use Passive FTP check box if your computer or network is protected by a firewall.
5. Click OK to connect to the remote site.

   The Remote Web site view will show files that you have in your local and remote sites.

6. Click the Publish Web site button in the lower-right corner of the window. 

To publish files through HTTP on a server that supports FrontPage Server Extensions:

1. Open your FrontPage program.
2. Open a FrontPage website: open File menu and select the Open Site item.
3. Go to Remote Web site view: click the Web Site tab, and then the Remote Web Site button at the bottom of the window.
4. Click the Remote Web Site Properties button in the upper-right corner of the window.
5. On the Remote Web Site tab, under Remote Web server type, click FrontPage or SharePoint Services.
6. In the Remote Web site location box, type the Internet address, including the protocol, of the remote website that you want to publish folders and files to, for example, http://www.your-domain.com, or click Browse to locate the site.
7. Do any of the following:
   • To use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) for establishing a secure communications channel to prevent the interception of critical information, click Encryption connection required (SSL). To use SSL connections on your web server, the server must be configured with a security certificate from a recognized certificate authority. If the server does not support SSL, clear this check box. Otherwise, you will not be able to publish folders and files to the remote website.
   • To remove specific types of code from web pages as they are being published, on the Optimize HTML tab, select the options you want.
   • To change the default options for publishing, on the Publishing tab, select the options you want.
8. Click OK to connect to the remote site.

   The Remote Web site view will show files that you have in your local and remote sites.

9. Click the Publish Web site button in the lower-right corner of the window.