FTP and Frontpage

[ibewroadie]

Before reading all of the instructions in my webhosting panel and domain
hosting panel, (I'm using yahoo services), I uploaded my website to my domain
using FTP. Now I read that it is not recommended and may ireparably harm my
frontpage extensions. How do I undo the FTP upload? When I try to publish
web from frontpage file menu, the 'publish web' option is not highlighted.
Is this because I messed it up with FTP? Is this because I've lost
extensions or parts of the frontpage program by using the FTP? Will I need
to reload my MS Frontpage? Also, when I did publish my site with FTP, the
background.jpg did not upload to the page and it was listed in my file
manager.
Can someone PLEASE help me, thank you in advance,
Ibewroadie

 

[somebody]

Before reading all of the instructions in my webhosting panel and domain
hosting panel, (I'm using yahoo services), I uploaded my website to my domain
using FTP. Now I read that it is not recommended and may ireparably harm my
frontpage extensions. How do I undo the FTP upload? When I try to publish
web from frontpage file menu, the 'publish web' option is not highlighted.
Is this because I messed it up with FTP? Is this because I've lost
extensions or parts of the frontpage program by using the FTP? Will I need
to reload my MS Frontpage? Also, when I did publish my site with FTP, the
background.jpg did not upload to the page and it was listed in my file
manager.

Because the extensions are located on the server, the situation cannot
be fixed by reloading FP, etc on your computer.

If the extensions did get damaged, they will have to be reloaded. Generally
the provider will do that. In same cases, users can create their own
domain and specify whether they want to use FP extensions or not. I
don't know how this is handled at yahoo.

If it's the former, you'll have to contact them and request that they reload the
extensions. In some cases it may be required to recreate the full
account.

If it's the second, you could try to reload the extensions from the control panel.
Or, if it's one of the "create it yourself domains", delete the
account and recreate it.

You'll lose all content in the published site when doing the above, of
course.

Roger

 

[Ronx]

Publish Web not available is normally because you do not have a web
open, probably just a page.
You must open the web before editing any pages within the web, then
publish the web.

 

[ibewroadie]

Thanks so much for your help Roger. I guess I'll try reloading the
extensions from Yahoo or asking then to do it for me. I had the web open
when I clicked on 'file', 'publish web' and it was still not highlighted. I
thought that maybe that had something to do with losing the extensions but
the extensions are not lost from Frontpage but Yahoo, correct?
Janet

 

[Andrew Murray]

You just need to ask the host to reinstall the extensions, or do so if you
can through your "control panel" for your web/host account (some hosts have
this type of feature)

Then publish the site with Frontpage http: method.

 

[Andrew Murray]

Strange....are you absolutely sure you have the web/site open and not just a
page? There would be no reason for "Publish" on the file menu to be
unavailable unless you didn't have the actual site open in FP.

Also, yes, the extensions reside on the server not on your PC (unless you
have a web server like IIS running on which you have installed the FP
extensions and using the domain http://localhost/ etc.)