it's just a warning that fp is gonna recalculate the hyperlinks for you.
| When you try to rename it as you suggest, front pages opens a window that
says:
|
| You are renaming the home page for your web site. This could cause broken
| links, broken link bars and errors when publishing.
|
| Maybe if you took that window out of there, people would rename it and all
| would be ok.
|
| "Thomas A. Rowe" wrote:
|
| > 1. The only page in a site that would need to have the .html extension
is the default document (home
| > page).
| >
| > 2. It is very easy to rename files in FP, select the file in folder
view, right click and select
| > rename, and you will not end up with a double extensions.
| >
| > 3. Double extensions are easy on Windows XP when you have the file
extensions hidden for known file
| > types.
| >
| > --
| > ==============================================
| > Thomas A. Rowe (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
| > ==============================================
| > If you feel your current issue is a results of installing
| > a Service Pack or security update, please contact
| > Microsoft Product Support Services:
| >
http://support.microsoft.com
| > If the problem can be shown to have been caused by a
| > security update, then there is usually no charge for the call.
| > ==============================================
| >
| > | > > Hi Tom, following are just a few people who have posted to this forum
that
| > > have had problems with this. Other forums I frequent also have
posts about
| > > this. In my own case, I have much better luck with my server when I
change
| > > the extension to .html. If I don't do that, I end up with two pages,
one,
| > > index.htm and one index.html:
| >
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| > >
| > > How would one go about changing a file extension from .htm into .html
using
| > > frontpage 2002?
| > >
| > > I've looked through the help area and it suggested a rename of
file.htm into
| > > file.html
| > > After doing this, my extension became file.html.htm.
| > >
| > > Any help would be appreciated.
| > >
| > > Thank you.
| > > ---------------------------------------------------------------
| > >
| > > For some reason my homepage on my local website is index.htm but,
on my
| > > remote website my homepage is index.html. I tried deleting the
index.html on
| > > my remote website, but it says it is part of a thicket to index.htm,
which I
| > > have on my remote website also. I tried deleting both index.htm and
| > > index.html (the homepage) on the remote website, but they will just
reappear
| > > when I publish.
| > > The reason I am asking for help is because I can't publish my
site,
| > > everytime I press publish, a question pops up and says, " The file
| > > "index.htm" exists on the destination server but does not exist on the
| > > current website. Would you like frontpage to remove it from
http://...
" When
| > > I click yes it justs deletes the homepage, when I click No, nothing is
| > > published.
| > >
| > > Any suggestions or help would be appreciated
| > > Thank you
| > > ---------------------------------------------
| > >
| > > What is the difference between htm and html pages? Does it matter if a
site
| > > is a mix of both or should it be one or another?
| > > I am using Frontpage seemingly without a problem but does the above
issue
| > > cause problems for viewers of my sites?
| > > -------------------------------------------------------------
| > > Following on from an earlier question regarding home page - default
page -
| > > index page can anyone tell if there is a right or wrong way to name
this
| > > page. I currently call all my index pages just that (index.htm) and
then
| > > save it. I just want to make sure that I've only got one page - that
is the
| > > index page, on the server as if there is more than one page this could
cause
| > > problems with the SE's. Fred
| > > ---------------------------------------------------------------
| > >
| > > FP 2003 publishing to a virtual directory on an IIS 5.0/W2K machine.
| > >
| > > The virtual directory has index.htm as its first default document.
| > >
| > > Local web has index.htm set as home page. FrontPage navigation links
are
| > > setup. When I publish this page, the index.htm is copied to
Default.htm.
| > > This breaks the navigation.
| > >
| > > How do I stop this renaming when I publish?
| > >
| > > -------------------------------------------------------
| > >
| > >
| > >
| > > "Tom Pepper Willett" wrote:
| > >
| > >> Just out of curiosity, could you please give some more detail as to
"it
| > >> really screws up lots of people and servers" and the "problems .htm
| > >> creates"?
| > >> --
| > >> ===
| > >> Tom "Pepper" Willett
| > >> Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
| > >> ---
| > >> About FrontPage 2003:
| > >>
http://office.microsoft.com/home/office.aspx?assetid=FX01085802
| > >> How to ask a newsgroup question:
| > >>
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375
| > >> ===
| > >> | > >> | Why did Microsoft create the .htm extension for use in Front Page?
I see
| > >> so
| > >> | many questions posted about this and it really screws up lots of
people
| > >> and
| > >> | servers as well trying to sort it out. Wouldn't .html have worked
for
| > >> them?
| > >> | Are they ever going to fix this or will users go on having to deal
with
| > >> the
| > >> | problems .htm creates?
| > >>
| > >>
| > >>
| >
| >
| >
