A question about subwebs and server types....

[AndrewS]

Okay Thomas, Stefan and a few others have given me some excellent
suggestions regarding after market software that works within FrontPage.
Unfortunately because of my work schedule I have not been able do much in
the way of learning and experimenting with it. I have however been dabbling
a little as time allows which brings me to these questions.

Most of the software I have encountered requires it to be run on a Windows
server but my server it seems is Linux based. The company who owns the
server suggests that I keep my domains on a Linux server versus having
everything re done on their Windows server. Which is better? and most
importantly easier for a rank amatuer such as myself who is more interested
in pursuing his hobby of Aviation photography than spending another hundred
hours trying to his sites back up. Should I stay with the Linux server or
formally request a transfer to the Windows server OVER and above their
objections??.

The second question concerns subwebs...
When I publish a subweb do I publish the subweb separately or do I publish
from the root web??? Additionally what happens to the index file? Can I
have multiple index files (in separate directories) on the same site?

Thanks,

Andrew S

 

[Crash Gordon]

Andrew,

Unfortunately I can't see the original question, and I'm not expert, but I have experimented with subwebs recently - thanks to the help from the gurus here.

I have several webs that I manage; three on simplenet/yahoo and two on another server closer to home. The two that are hosted locally in my town are Apache/Linux, not sure what yoohoo uses. But it doesn't seem to matter - I was able to set up subwebs on both of them very easily.

Switching is not a problem if you really want to switch.

Yes (and confusingly enough) you can have index pages in separate folders/directories. And also yes you can choose to publish subs separately or together with the momma web.

I would not be qualified to answer which server type to choose however.

hth.

robo

"AndrewS" <Death-To-Spamers.com> wrote in message | Okay Thomas, Stefan and a few others have given me some excellent
| suggestions regarding after market software that works within FrontPage.
| Unfortunately because of my work schedule I have not been able do much in
| the way of learning and experimenting with it. I have however been dabbling
| a little as time allows which brings me to these questions.
|
| Most of the software I have encountered requires it to be run on a Windows
| server but my server it seems is Linux based. The company who owns the
| server suggests that I keep my domains on a Linux server versus having
| everything re done on their Windows server. Which is better? and most
| importantly easier for a rank amatuer such as myself who is more interested
| in pursuing his hobby of Aviation photography than spending another hundred
| hours trying to his sites back up. Should I stay with the Linux server or
| formally request a transfer to the Windows server OVER and above their
| objections??.
|
| The second question concerns subwebs...
| When I publish a subweb do I publish the subweb separately or do I publish
| from the root web??? Additionally what happens to the index file? Can I
| have multiple index files (in separate directories) on the same site?
|
| Thanks,
|
| Andrew S
|
|
|

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

AndrewS,

If you want to use ASP and Access or ASP.net, you will have to be hosted on
a Windows 2000 or 2003 server.

If you want to use PHP, CGI-Perl and MySQL, then I would suggest staying on
the Unix/Linux Servers.

With subweb, the benefit is being able to publish them independently of the
rootweb, so if you make changes to the root, you only need to publish the
root, if you make change to a subweb, then you only need to publish the
specific subweb.

I do suggest that if you open your site on the remote server, that you
always open the root in FP first, then open any of the subwebs.
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