Downloading Entire Webpage

P

Pilotdane

My hard drive crashed and of course I did not have a backup of my webpage.
How can I download my webpage from the Internet to Front Page?

The instruction book says to: select "new" in the file menu and use the
import web wizard. It downloads all the pictures and text from the Internet
but it looses the structure and themes (the navigation window only shows one
page, my tree organization is missing and all pages are plain white with no
navigation buttons). A popup when I use the import wizard says to use the
publish command to publish my downloaded webpage to the current webpage to
preserve formatting & structure, but this has not worked. I keep getting the
same thing.

Thanks
 
C

cschiller1

Don't import it. Create a folder to hold your website on your hard
drive, then open your online website in FrontPage, and then PUBLISH it
to the folder on your hard drive.

HTH,
Craig
 
A

Andrew Murray

Publish using Frontpage (open the live site) and publish to the hard drive
or open the site by FTP and transfer the files down to your PC.

Note, it's not a good idea to have the only copy of your site on the web
server. If the server crashes, you'd be left with no copy of your site to
restore it from.

Best to work on the local machine (your PC) and publish to the web.
 
P

Pilotdane

I was just about to ask "how do you open an Internet webpage inside FrontPage
2000?"... but then I tried the "Edit With FrontPage" command inside Explorer
and it looks like I'm able to save it to my hard drive that way.

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
 
R

Rob Giordano \(Crash\)

That's not the right direction...you won't get everything that way.

Requires FPSE installed on your host server:

Open FP
File | Open Web
enter your websites url ; http://www.yourwebname.xxx
You'll be prompted for you un/pw
This will open your website "live" on the server.

Now;
File | Publish Web
and now you will select a location on your hardrive to Publish to... C:/My
Docs/My Webs/whateveryouwanttonameit (without an extension)
This will Publish your entire web to your hardrive (Import & Edit With
Frontpage will not get everything)

hth

--

Rob Giordano
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage





|I was just about to ask "how do you open an Internet webpage inside
FrontPage
| 2000?"... but then I tried the "Edit With FrontPage" command inside
Explorer
| and it looks like I'm able to save it to my hard drive that way.
|
| Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
|
|
| "cschiller1<at>earthlink.net earthlink.ne" wrote:
|
| > Don't import it. Create a folder to hold your website on your hard
| > drive, then open your online website in FrontPage, and then PUBLISH it
| > to the folder on your hard drive.
| >
| > HTH,
| > Craig
| >
| > Pilotdane wrote:
| > > My hard drive crashed and of course I did not have a backup of my
webpage.
| > > How can I download my webpage from the Internet to Front Page?
| > >
| > > The instruction book says to: select "new" in the file menu and use
the
| > > import web wizard. It downloads all the pictures and text from the
Internet
| > > but it looses the structure and themes (the navigation window only
shows one
| > > page, my tree organization is missing and all pages are plain white
with no
| > > navigation buttons). A popup when I use the import wizard says to use
the
| > > publish command to publish my downloaded webpage to the current
webpage to
| > > preserve formatting & structure, but this has not worked. I keep
getting the
| > > same thing.
| > >
| > > Thanks
| >
| >
 
B

Brenda

I have a similar situation, as I work on my website from two different
computers: my desktop during the day, and my laptop in the evenings.

I just open up FrontPage on which ever computer I am moving to, and publish
my website to that machine. That's how I keep my 2 computers in sync with my
website, so I can keep working on the website.

I believe in order to be able to publish, you probaby need to have FrontPage
extensions loaded on your server, though.

Brenda
 
P

Pilotdane

When I use the "open" command in FrontPage and enter my webpage address, I am
only getting the one page of my web. For example I enter the home page
http://www.homepage.com and that is all I get into FrontPage. The other
pages are not coming with it. When I use the open command I get a "Open
File As" window (wpe5BCD.tmp) and it gives me the choice to open it as; HTML,
RTF or Text. I am never asked for the UN/PW.

I have also tried the "open web" command and enter http://www.homepage.com
but I get an error saying the folder isn't accessible... then another error
saying that the name, location or format is not valid.

The webpage was created with FrontPage 2000 and was last edited two weeks
ago with FrontPage so the server should/does support it. The one thing that
has changed is that I have gotten a new computer running Vista. FrontPage
was previously running in XP and the webpage was origianlly created with
FrontPage running under ME.

You are correct about the "edit with FrontPage" command. I will bring in
only what is on that page. I get the thumbnails but not the original
pictures they are hyperlinked to.

Keep those ideas coming.
 
P

Pilotdane

Andrew: My old junk computer did not have any back-up capability (no CD or
DVD burner, and the Zip drive died a year ago...)(yes, call me stupid...) so
I had my web on my hard drive and on the web server at Earthlink. If one
died I had it stored on the other. Well the olde computer died and I cannot
get my backup sucked down from the web. (My new computer has a DVD burner so
I will hopefully never have this problem again.)

I am still stuck at step #1. I can not get FrontPage to OPEN the live site.

Thanks
 
P

Pilotdane

I have contacted Earthlink and they no longer support FrontPage. The said I
should contact MS FrontPage to resolve my issue.

My webpage was created and was recently updated with FrontPage 2000. I
don't know why I am having so much trouble with it now. Who knew "open"
would be so difficult.
 
T

Tom Willett

Does that mean they no longer support the FrontPage server extensions and do
not offer them anymore?
--
===
Tom Willett
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
---
FrontPage Support:
http://www.frontpagemvps.com/
===
|I have contacted Earthlink and they no longer support FrontPage. The said
I
| should contact MS FrontPage to resolve my issue.
|
| My webpage was created and was recently updated with FrontPage 2000. I
| don't know why I am having so much trouble with it now. Who knew "open"
| would be so difficult.
|
|
|
|
| "Brenda" wrote:
|
| > I have a similar situation, as I work on my website from two different
| > computers: my desktop during the day, and my laptop in the evenings.
| >
| > I just open up FrontPage on which ever computer I am moving to, and
publish
| > my website to that machine. That's how I keep my 2 computers in sync
with my
| > website, so I can keep working on the website.
| >
| > I believe in order to be able to publish, you probaby need to have
FrontPage
| > extensions loaded on your server, though.
| >
| > Brenda
| >
| >
| >
| > "Pilotdane" wrote:
| >
| > > My hard drive crashed and of course I did not have a backup of my
webpage.
| > > How can I download my webpage from the Internet to Front Page?
| > >
 
R

Ronx

If your no longer supports FrontPage, then it is likely the FrontPage
extensions have been removed. In this case, use an FTP client such as
WS-FTP Home, CuteFTP etc. to download the site to a folder. You will
have to reapply shared borders, include pages, themes and navigation
since these will be lost. FrontPage cannot open an FTP site, and
File->Import will not successfully download the site, especially if
shared borders, themes are used - these files will be left behind.
--
Ron Symonds - Microsoft MVP (FrontPage)
Reply only to group - emails will be deleted unread.

http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/fp

FrontPage Support: http://www.frontpagemvps.com/
 
P

Pilotdane

I am curious how the website continues to run properly if Earthlink says they
no longer support FrontPage. It would seem that everything is there and
working fine.

I have just downloaded and installed WS_FTP. Is there a setting or
attribute I should look for?
 
R

Rob Giordano \(Crash\)

Post the URL to the website.
If the FPSE's have been removed you can still get MOST of what's on the
server, not all but maybe enough to get you restarted.



--

Rob Giordano
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage





| When I use the "open" command in FrontPage and enter my webpage address, I
am
| only getting the one page of my web. For example I enter the home page
| http://www.homepage.com and that is all I get into FrontPage. The other
| pages are not coming with it. When I use the open command I get a "Open
| File As" window (wpe5BCD.tmp) and it gives me the choice to open it as;
HTML,
| RTF or Text. I am never asked for the UN/PW.
|
| I have also tried the "open web" command and enter http://www.homepage.com
| but I get an error saying the folder isn't accessible... then another
error
| saying that the name, location or format is not valid.
|
| The webpage was created with FrontPage 2000 and was last edited two weeks
| ago with FrontPage so the server should/does support it. The one thing
that
| has changed is that I have gotten a new computer running Vista. FrontPage
| was previously running in XP and the webpage was origianlly created with
| FrontPage running under ME.
|
| You are correct about the "edit with FrontPage" command. I will bring in
| only what is on that page. I get the thumbnails but not the original
| pictures they are hyperlinked to.
|
| Keep those ideas coming.
|
|
|
| "Rob Giordano (Crash)" wrote:
|
| > That's not the right direction...you won't get everything that way.
| >
| > Requires FPSE installed on your host server:
| >
| > Open FP
| > File | Open Web
| > enter your websites url ; http://www.yourwebname.xxx
| > You'll be prompted for you un/pw
| > This will open your website "live" on the server.
| >
| > Now;
| > File | Publish Web
| > and now you will select a location on your hardrive to Publish to...
C:/My
| > Docs/My Webs/whateveryouwanttonameit (without an extension)
| > This will Publish your entire web to your hardrive (Import & Edit With
| > Frontpage will not get everything)
| >
| > hth
| >
| > --
| >
| > Rob Giordano
| > Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
| >
| >
| >
| >
 
P

Pilotdane

THANK YOU... THANK YOU... to everyone.

I finally got the webpage downloaded to my hard drive and the formating and
themes appear to be intact.

I used WS_FTP to change the permissions for my files at the server
(Earthlink), then I used it to download the webpage files to a folder on my
hard drive. FrontPage was then able to open the webpage. A quick look at
the navigation screen and a few pages makes me think that most everything
came through properly. Now I'll quickly burn a copy to DVD just in case...

Thanks for everyone's help.
 
S

stersource

THANK YOU!!! It took a little while I had to pen the file with full address
HTTP://www.sterlingsource.com Then published toa file on my desktop. GREAT
HELP The idiots at network solutions did nto knwo how to do it. The import
procedure di not work. The file downlaoded from them with asecond tech in
teh Phillipines sent me file snapshot.current.target.gz what ever that is
Supposed to be a compressed version.
 

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