Publish New Webs in their own Virtual Directory

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Aspiring Geek

Please clarify this. I understand that the Default Web
Site can be an empty web. But I have to actually
physically configure the virtual directory on the web
server in advance of my publishing from FrontPage, correct?

In other words, without touching the box with admin
privileges, I'd like to publish directly to the server
withuot having to worry about the new web being a sub web
of the Default Web site, or, as happened last night when I
published a new site to a virgin server, the new site
became the Default Site.

I hope this is clear. Thanks again for your help!
 
First of all make sure you are using your local server correctly
By default it is at http://localhost/ (or http://machinename/ or http://127.0.0.1/)
Do not open your server based webs using disc based paths such as
c:\inetpub\wwwroot\myweb

When you say you "published", you would have had to open an online web or local disc based web and published it to your local server

If you open your local server based web in FP, File Open Web http://localhost/ you can create a folder (say MyWeb1) and right click
it to convert to a web (subweb).

Or, if you are publishing from another server (or disc based web) you would just publish to the new subweb (w/o creating it first)
by publishing to say http://localhost/MyWeb1/ and FP will create the web

Management of the your web & its subwebs is easily done using
http://localhost/_vti_bin/_vti_adm/fpadmdll.dll?page=webadmin.htm

The subwebs do not have to be related to the root web - they are stand alone webs




| Please clarify this. I understand that the Default Web
| Site can be an empty web. But I have to actually
| physically configure the virtual directory on the web
| server in advance of my publishing from FrontPage, correct?
|
| In other words, without touching the box with admin
| privileges, I'd like to publish directly to the server
| withuot having to worry about the new web being a sub web
| of the Default Web site, or, as happened last night when I
| published a new site to a virgin server, the new site
| became the Default Site.
|
| I hope this is clear. Thanks again for your help!
|
|
 
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