Publish Web to ISP for temporary viewing

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Hi Guys,

I am trying to publish my website to my ISP (AOL) so that someone else can
view it. I tried to copy and paste in Microsoft Word, but I couldn't get the
pictures to show up. While reading my FP manual, I see that I can publish it
to my ISP for temporary viewing. The present name that the site is named
under is soooo long until I'm not sure what to do. Let's just say the name
of the site will be www.giftbaskets.com.

What do I put in the "Specify the location to publish your web to:" box to
publish the web in AOL. In FrontPage the website name is something like;

c:\documentsandsetting\gonefishing\mydocument\myweb\giftbaskets

I don't know which part of this goes in the location box. I know that was
confusing. Thanks for help.

GoneFishing
 
If AOL support the Frontpage Server Extensions:

Go to File > Publish Web/Site

Specify the location to publish you put the web address (URL) when prompted
eg. http://www.giftbaskets.com or whatever your web URL actually is - it
could be something like so it might be www.aol.com/~giftbaskets/ if you
don't have a domain registered.

I don't know how AOL works so you might want to check with their support on
publishing web sites. If they have any special functions or file upload
managers they may also have a web host control panels that controls all
this.

As to the rest of your post, your actual web is in a folder called
"giftbaskets" (as in your example) -the rest of it is just the file path to
that folder and not irrelevant to where you publish your site online.

When you go FIle > Publish site, and it comes up with the dialogue "enter
location to publish to" you need to put the web address either
http://www.giftbaskets.com or http://www.aol.com/~giftbaskets/
or whatever your web address is. Then it will prompt for password and
username (AOL will have given you these details)....then if successful, it
will connect and you'll see two lists of files local and remote.

If AOL does *not* have the Frontpage Server Extensions installed:

You will need to connect via FTP through Frontpage or a third party
application like CuteFTP. In the same box, enter the location to publish
to but the location is slightly different; the server name will be something
like ftp://ftp.aol.com/giftbaskets or whatever it might be rather than
http://www.giftbaskets.com

when you view the site in your browser, you would use the normal http://
address

Best to check with them as AOL seems to be specific in some of these things
and this group has had previous posts that have said AOL doesn't support
Frontpage server extensions.

Regarding your mention of "temporary viewing" - I don't quite know what you
mean by this; but you can upload and delete the files as you require. No
one will really know your site exists until you promote it and until search
engine bots visit and index it.

Hope this assist you.
 
Thanks Andrew, I will try this. I called AOL tech support, I was having a
very hard time understanding the techs dialect. I got tired of repeating
myself and asking him to repeat himself, so I just hung up. Thanks for your
help.
 
1) AOL as an ISP does not support the FP Server Extensions so you will be limited to publishing in FP using FTP mode
See http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;825503&Product=fp2003
and http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;205403
- you would use something like ftp://members.aol.com//username/
2) You can not publish to a domain/URL (like say http://www.giftbaskets.com) unless you own it.
You will be limited w/ AOL to publish to any space they give you for your "webs" (your users will access that web space on AOL using
the same URL as http (http://members.aol.com//username/)


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| Hi Guys,
|
| I am trying to publish my website to my ISP (AOL) so that someone else can
| view it. I tried to copy and paste in Microsoft Word, but I couldn't get the
| pictures to show up. While reading my FP manual, I see that I can publish it
| to my ISP for temporary viewing. The present name that the site is named
| under is soooo long until I'm not sure what to do. Let's just say the name
| of the site will be www.giftbaskets.com.
|
| What do I put in the "Specify the location to publish your web to:" box to
| publish the web in AOL. In FrontPage the website name is something like;
|
| c:\documentsandsetting\gonefishing\mydocument\myweb\giftbaskets
|
| I don't know which part of this goes in the location box. I know that was
| confusing. Thanks for help.
|
| GoneFishing
 
Thanks for all of the information. I was really trying to send the index
file to my friend for viewing. Everytime I would try to send it from FP,
only part of the page would come across or it would come all separated (menu
by itself etc.) Duh, I figured out that I could simply save it in a zip file
and send it. I'm still going to try the AOL thing from MurrayWebs.

Another question, why is it when I click on something for example the web
address for MurrayWebs I was able to read it the first time. Then when I
went back to read it again, the name MurrayWebs was gone. I knew it was
there so I just clicked on the invisble word and was able to open the site.
That happens a lot. I know the words are still there even though I can't see
them. What happens? Do I need to refresh the page to see the words again?

Thanks to all for your help.

Hail To The Frontpage Gods!!!!

GoneFishing
 
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