How do I set up multiple domains?

[Russ2112]

I have a current website published with FP 2003. That was easy, just click
the "publish" button and the rest takes care of itself.

I want to set up a second website and I'm not sure where to store it. When I
open FP 2003 my primary website folders come up automatically.

I registered the domain with GoDaddy, informed my webhost of the domain url
and my webhost sent back the nameservers, which I entered into GoDaddy too.

Now what do I do?

It's easy enough to build a web page (index.htm), but where do I store it a
second index file? Subsite? Second main site? Do I just create a new folder
called "other website?"

How do I inform my computer which website I want to publish?

(This probably shouldn't be as hard as I'm making it. Sigh.)

 

[Andrew Murray]

If this second site is a complete separate site:

1) Create a new site in FrontPage (File > New Site), name the site (web
folder) with a name that makes sense to you.
2) Open the site (File > Open Site).
3) Create your new pages as you always have.
4) Publish in the same manner. The new site shouldn't connect to the
existing remote site, because it should recognise it is a new site. It will
ask for the domain/address details of the remote site.
5) you specify the new domain name and log on with the correct details.
6) publish the site as usual.


Now you have two sites, you need to open the one you want to work on (not
just opening individual pages)

Your directory structure would be something like this:
c:\my documents
\my webs
\site1
\site2

So site1 and site2 sit in the My Webs folder (your system may be different).

You open site1 (File > OPen Site and select the site1 folder, and click
"Open". Same deal with site2. You can have more than one site open at once.


When publishing, you may have to respecify the web address to publish to, in
order to ensure you don't publish site2 to the site1's domain and vice
versa. FP I think, remembers the address, but there is a way to re-specify
a new address. At the top of the Remote Site window, there's a button
"Remote Site Properties" - you can change the location to publish to in
there (note the remote location doesn't have to be an HTTP or FTP address,
it can be another folder on your hard drive, or another computer on a local
network).


You would need to register a new domain for the second site, and possibly
this would involve further fees for registration of the name, etc.

 

[Russ2112]

If this second site is a complete separate site:

1) Create a new site in FrontPage (File > New Site), name the site (web
folder) with a name that makes sense to you.
2) Open the site (File > Open Site).
3) Create your new pages as you always have.
4) Publish in the same manner. The new site shouldn't connect to the
existing remote site, because it should recognise it is a new site. It will
ask for the domain/address details of the remote site.
5) you specify the new domain name and log on with the correct details.
6) publish the site as usual.


Now you have two sites, you need to open the one you want to work on (not
just opening individual pages)

Your directory structure would be something like this:
c:\my documents
\my webs
\site1
\site2

So site1 and site2 sit in the My Webs folder (your system may be different).

You open site1 (File > OPen Site and select the site1 folder, and click
"Open". Same deal with site2. You can have more than one site open at once.


When publishing, you may have to respecify the web address to publish to, in
order to ensure you don't publish site2 to the site1's domain and vice
versa. FP I think, remembers the address, but there is a way to re-specify
a new address. At the top of the Remote Site window, there's a button
"Remote Site Properties" - you can change the location to publish to in
there (note the remote location doesn't have to be an HTTP or FTP address,
it can be another folder on your hard drive, or another computer on a local
network).


You would need to register a new domain for the second site, and possibly
this would involve further fees for registration of the name, etc.

Andrew,

Thanks for the response.

I wonder if it might be easier if you see what I see.

I created a page with screen shots:

http://www.mormondoctrine.net/MSN_board.htm

 

[Andrew Murray]

Andrew,

Thanks for the response.

I wonder if it might be easier if you see what I see.

I created a page with screen shots:

http://www.mormondoctrine.net/MSN_board.htm

Using the screenshots, if you want to create a new site, use the "One page
web site" option - you can always add new pages as you go, from the file
menu: File >New > Page


However the specific question is about "how do I set up multiple domains" -
you have to register the domain names with your domain registrar (I think
you mention GoDaddy....?). So whatever domain names you want, you have to
basically apply to register them, and GoDaddy will check to see if they're
available (there are tools on the web for this too)....sites that search for
a particular domain and advise if it's already registered or available for
purchase.

Once you have the registered domain, you need to link it to a hosting
account (I think usually a separate hosting account per domain). You'd log
on to that domain (once the registration is complete and domain name is
"linked" on the DNS server (or whatever it's called) with your hosting
provider.

Otherwise, I might be off track here. My answer was on how to create a
second web in Frontpage. Maybe others can address the "multiple domain"
issue, those who are more knowledgeable about that stuff than I am.

I know that with my hosting service, I sign up for a hosting account and
domain name in one hit - the hosting provider registers the domain for me,
once it's done, they notify me the account is active, and send me an email
with the details to log on etc.

 

[wyzguy]

I have designed dozens of sites with FrontPage and Expression Web. I
think you may be confused with the old site opening automatically.
First thing to do is go to File, Close Site, and close it.

Just as you can design many Word documents with MS Word, you can
design and unlimited number os sites with FrontPage, now that you have
your first site out of the way, you can build the new site just as you
did the first one. File, New, OnePage WebSite or whatever other
method you used on the first site.

FrontPage does a fine job of remembering where your different sites
publish to as well. It is not as complicated as you might think.

If you don't want FP to open the last site you worked on
automatically, you can change that by going to Tool, Options, and on
the General Tab, uncheck the second item, "Open last web site
automatically...."

 

[Helpful person]

Using the screenshots, if you want to create a new site, use the "One page
web site" option - you can always add new pages as you go, from the file
menu: File >New > Page

However the specific question is about "how do I set up multiple domains"-
you have to register the domain names with your domain registrar (I think
you mention GoDaddy....?).   So whatever domain names you want, you have to
basically apply to register them, and GoDaddy will check to see if they're
available (there are tools on the web for this too)....sites that search for
a particular domain and advise if it's already registered or available for
purchase.

Once you have the registered domain, you need to link it to a hosting
account (I think usually a separate hosting account per domain).  You'dlog
on to that domain (once the registration is complete and domain name is
"linked" on the DNS server (or whatever it's called) with your hosting
provider.

Otherwise, I might be off track here.  My answer was on how to create a
second web in Frontpage.  Maybe others can address the "multiple domain"
issue, those who are more knowledgeable about that stuff than I am.

I know that with my hosting service, I sign up for a hosting account and
domain name in one hit - the hosting provider registers the domain for me,
once it's done, they notify me the account is active, and send me an email
with the details to log on etc.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Reply do not need multiple domains. You just need a host that
supports sub domains. You can add passwords to each of these.

 

[Russ2112]

I have designed dozens of sites with FrontPage and Expression Web. I
think you may be confused with the old site opening automatically.
First thing to do is go to File, Close Site, and close it.

Just as you can design many Word documents with MS Word, you can
design and unlimited number os sites with FrontPage, now that you have
your first site out of the way, you can build the new site just as you
did the first one. File, New, OnePage WebSite or whatever other
method you used on the first site.

FrontPage does a fine job of remembering where your different sites
publish to as well. It is not as complicated as you might think.

If you don't want FP to open the last site you worked on
automatically, you can change that by going to Tool, Options, and on
the General Tab, uncheck the second item, "Open last web site
automatically...."

My confusion was in the "subdomain" I was trying to make one website "first
site" and second webiste "second website" when I should have instead been
making second site "subdomain."

Well, that and there was an issue with the nameservers, which my webhost
corrected.

In the words of the infamous Homer, "D'oh."

Yeah, I was making it harder than it needed to be.

Thanks, all.

All posts helped.