Development vs production environment

[Scott]

Hi -
I 'volunteered' to update the web site for my department. I have FrontPate
2002 ( is that the most recent ? ). The site currently exists in a useable
but out of date form. I would like to bring what currently exists from it's
production environment to a development environment. Is it possible for me
to bring the current site into my local pc for development? If so, how do I
do that? Thanks.
Scott

 

[Nicholas Savalas - http://savalas.tv]

From FrontPage Help:

Publish files from a remote Web site to a local Web site
Note When you publish the files in your Web site in Microsoft Office
FrontPage 2003, be aware that there are two kinds of Web sites: a local
Web site and a remote Web site:.


The local Web site is the source Web site that is open in FrontPage. A
local Web site can be stored on either a local hard disk drive or a
server.
The remote Web site is the destination site to which you are
publishing. Similarly, a remote Web site can be stored on either a
local hard disk drive (if it is acting as a Web server, as in the case
of http://localhost) or a remote Web server.

This procedure enables you to do a reverse publish - from your remote
Web site to your local Web site:

On the View menu, click Remote Web Site.
In the Local Web site pane, right-click each file that you do not want
to publish, and then click Don't Publish on the shortcut menu.
Under the Remote Web site pane, under Publish all changed pages, click
Remote to local.
Click Publish Web site.
Note If you cancel a publish in progress, files that have already been
published will remain on the destination Web server.

Good luck.

 

[Scott]

Thanks for the reply!
Will this 'reverse publish' remove file from my production site?
My goal is to have the entire site on my personal pc for updating and
archiving before starting to save any new information to the production
site.

Scott

 

[Nicholas Savalas - http://savalas.tv]

Dear Scott,
No, publishing will not erase the contents of the local site; in this
case your local site is your company's live site on the web server, and
the remote site is the folder on your computer at home. Publishing
means copying your website - and adding to the remote site, If
necessary, the proprietary files and folders that FrontPage uses in
order to execute the amazing site management tools it has. Be careful
with the optimize HTML, remove comments, etc, options when publishing -
those things really work, and they do change your code. If you write
good code in the first place, those things should not be necessary. For
the time being, make no changes to your code, and be very very very
careful that you are not publishing to your company web site by
accident - first thing I would do is make a copy of your company web
site and burn it to CD - if anything should happen, you can put it back
in one minute. Try to make frequent use of the F1 key. The only stupid
question that I know of is "How do I fix the mistake I would not have
made if I had read help first?" Good luck, Scott. Keep us posted.