Publishing to a subdomain

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Nicole

I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong and writing to ask for support help
from godaddy isn't helping at all. I have a domain that's hosted at godaddy
called nicoleodell.com. I have a subdomain under that account that is called
wilodell.com. I purchased an account that will allow those to be separate
domains hosted in the same account.

I am currently trying to publish a site to wilodell.com. I've been told by
goDaddy that I need to publish to nicoleodell.com and then navigate to the
destination folder to publish to wilodell.com. HUH?

If understand correctly, I need to publish through frontpage to
nicoleodell.com but I can't figure out how to get the files to wherever they
need to go so that when someone types http://www.wilodell.com it will go to
the site I am attempting to publish.

I appreciate any help you can give...and the more detailed the instructions,
the better.

Thanks!
 
If understand correctly, I need to publish through frontpage to
nicoleodell.com but I can't figure out how to get the files to wherever they
need to go so that when someone types http://www.wilodell.com it will go to
the site I am attempting to publish.
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You probably already have the domain name nicoleodell.com associated
with your GoDaddy account's root directory (folder). What you need to do
now is use frontpage to create a new subfolder in your nicoleodell web.
Call it "wilodell" (you can actually call it anything you like). In this
new subfolder create a new index.htm and publish.

So your published site (nicoleodell.com) should look something like:

/index.htm
/wilodell/index.htm

Now you need to go to GoDaddy's Hosting Control Center and click on Your
Domains. Then click the Add Domain button and associate your 2nd domain
(wilodell.com) with the subfolder you created above (wilodell). It will
take a little while for this to get setup and propagate, but eventually
typing http://www.wilodell.com will send clients to the index.htm in the
wilodell subfolder. In effect, http://www.wilodell.com will take you to
the very same page as http://nicoleodell.com/wilodell/index.htm. Your
wilodell subfolder has become the wilodell.com domain.

So GoDaddy support is correct. You just do all your publishing to
nicoleodell.com.
 
In addition to Dennis' comments, make the willodell folder a subweb.
This will ensure that all the navigation, themes in the two domains are
kept separate.
 
I feel like such an idiot, because I still don't understand. I've done that
already. I created the 2nd domain with the subfolder.

If I publish files through frontpage to nicoleodell.com, how do I get them
to be in the wilodell folder? I guess that's what I'm asking.

Thanks in advance.
 
In addition to Dennis' comments, make the willodell folder a subweb.
This will ensure that all the navigation, themes in the two domains are
kept separate.
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I was going to mention that, but making it a subweb means she *must*
modify the remote website's publishing location to include the
subfolder. True? Or will making it a subweb automagically take care of
this?

I wanted to get her up and working first before tackling that issue. ;-)
 
If I publish files through frontpage to nicoleodell.com, how do I get them
to be in the wilodell folder? I guess that's what I'm asking.
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On your PC your web for nicoleodell.com should have a subfolder called
wilodell. Correct? Create a file (on your PC with frontpage) in that
subfolder called index.htm with some content. Save it. Now publish to
nicoleodell.com (don't specify any subfolder). Frontpage should copy
/wilodell/index.htm from your PC and place it in /wilodell/index.htm on
GoDaddy. Since, on GoDaddy, /wilodell has been associated with
wilodell.com, when you request http://www.wilodell.com/index.htm you
will be served /wilodell/index.htm.
 
I really appreciate the help!

Here's exactly what I'm doing:

I have two websites saved under different names through frontPage. One of
them, I publish to nicoleodell.com and those files are accurately reflecting
the domain, nicoleodell.com.

I have another web site that I designed, save as a different website in
frontPage. I have put all of the pages and files into a folder called
wilodell. I am attempting to publish that to nicoleodell.com and expect it to
reflect the domain wilodell.com. When I use the remote website feature of FP
to publish to nicoleodell.com, it polls the site and creates the list (on the
left) of all of the files and folders at that site. There is a folder there
called wilodell and it has a little globe on it which tells me that I have
accurately created that as a subdomain.

I have tried to just publish the wilodell folder that i have stored on my
computer and thought it might go into the wilodell domain, but that didn't
work. When I click on the wilodell folder (in the list on the left side of
the remote website page) it doesn't even open so I can't view the contents.

I've been trying to get this to work for weeks and my frustration level is
rising to the point where I'm about to give up. I really do appreciate the
help.
 
I have another web site that I designed, save as a different website in
frontPage.
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OK. It sounds like you have created an entirely separate web --- not a
subweb. I think what you need to do when you publish this web is to
specify the remote site as nicoleodell.com/wilodell (I don't know if you
are publishing with http or ftp). Frontpage should place the contents of
your web into the wilodell folder at nicoleodell.com.
 
I asked godaddy support about publishing that way (nicoleodell.com/wilodell)
and they said I couldn't do that. I'll look into "subweb". Perhaps that's
what I need to do...?

Continued thanks!
 
Dennis,
Instructions here are more for Nicole than yourself.

Making the folder a subweb means that Nicole opens the subweb in her
local website (double click on the folder, which should have a green
blob on the folder icon), then publishes to
http://nicoleodell.com/wilodell

If the folder wilodell already exists on the website at
http://nicoleodell.com it will have to be converted to a subweb first.
If the folder does not already exist then publishing will create it -
there will be a few warnings about the website not existing, but click
OK on these.

The only "problem" arises if the folder is already there:
Open FrontPage
File->Open Site
Type in http://nicoledell.com
Login
When the site opens, right click on the folder and choose Convert to Web

Open the local copy of the site and publish as above
--
Ron Symonds - Microsoft MVP (Expression)
Reply only to group - emails will be deleted unread.

http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/fp
 
I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong and writing to ask for support help
from godaddy isn't helping at all.  I have a domain that's hosted at godaddy
called nicoleodell.com. I have a subdomain under that account that is called
wilodell.com. I purchased an account that will allow those to be separate
domains hosted in the same account.

I am currently trying to publish a site to wilodell.com. I've been told by
goDaddy that I need to publish to nicoleodell.com and then navigate to the
destination folder to publish to wilodell.com. HUH?

If understand correctly, I need to publish through frontpage to
nicoleodell.com but I can't figure out how to get the files to wherever they
need to go so that when someone typeshttp://www.wilodell.comit will go to
the site I am attempting to publish.

I appreciate any help you can give...and the more detailed the instructions,
the better.

Thanks!
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I'm confused. You seem to have two domains, nicoleodell.com and
wilodell.com. A sub domain would look something like
mysubdomain.nicoleodell.com
 
Once you open your main website locally with FP, then Open the subweb
(wilodel) from within FP (double click on wilodel in the File List on the
left)...it will open a separate instance of FP with wilodel as the main
site....Publish from that.



--
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Rob Giordano
Microsoft MVP Expression
 
Nicole: The websites you have shown us are two separate domains. There are
no subdomains. A subdomain would be: http://subdomainname.domain.com

--
Tom [Pepper] Willett
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
---------------------------
:I feel like such an idiot, because I still don't understand. I've done that
: already. I created the 2nd domain with the subfolder.
:
: If I publish files through frontpage to nicoleodell.com, how do I get them
: to be in the wilodell folder? I guess that's what I'm asking.
:
: Thanks in advance.
:
: "Dennis" wrote:
:
: > On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:45:01 -0800, Nicole
: >
: > >If understand correctly, I need to publish through frontpage to
: > >nicoleodell.com but I can't figure out how to get the files to wherever
they
: > >need to go so that when someone types http://www.wilodell.com it will
go to
: > >the site I am attempting to publish.
: >
: > You probably already have the domain name nicoleodell.com associated
: > with your GoDaddy account's root directory (folder). What you need to do
: > now is use frontpage to create a new subfolder in your nicoleodell web.
: > Call it "wilodell" (you can actually call it anything you like). In this
: > new subfolder create a new index.htm and publish.
: >
: > So your published site (nicoleodell.com) should look something like:
: >
: > /index.htm
: > /wilodell/index.htm
: >
: > Now you need to go to GoDaddy's Hosting Control Center and click on Your
: > Domains. Then click the Add Domain button and associate your 2nd domain
: > (wilodell.com) with the subfolder you created above (wilodell). It will
: > take a little while for this to get setup and propagate, but eventually
: > typing http://www.wilodell.com will send clients to the index.htm in the
: > wilodell subfolder. In effect, http://www.wilodell.com will take you to
: > the very same page as http://nicoleodell.com/wilodell/index.htm. Your
: > wilodell subfolder has become the wilodell.com domain.
: >
: > So GoDaddy support is correct. You just do all your publishing to
: > nicoleodell.com.
: >
: > --
: >
: > Dennis
: >
 
I asked godaddy support about publishing that way (nicoleodell.com/wilodell)
and they said I couldn't do that.
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My GoDaddy account is Linux so I use ftp. But I have my main domain (ex.
mydomain.com) and a 2nd domain (ex. anotherdomain.com). On my PC my web
has a subfolder (a subweb) called anotherdomain. So when I open this
subweb and publish it my Remote Web site location looks like:

ftp://mydomain.com/anotherdomain

Works great for me. I don't know if it works differently if you publish
with http, so I can't say if the advice GoDaddy gave you is 100% correct
or not. It is obviously incorrect as far as ftp on Linux is concerned
since I am doing it.
 
Thank you all for your help.

I decided that I was too dense to get this to work so I closed my deluxe
acct with godaddy and I now have two separate hosting accounts. So, as soon
as it's set up, I'll be able to publish and manage my two websites separately.

Thanks for trying to help me!
 
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