localhost or My Webs

[Pam]

I'm using fp2003 on xppro and I have a young girl I'm trying to help learn
her fp2003 - however, she doesn't have under the frontpage/open site/my
network a folder called localhost - she only has My Webs..

Is there a difference one way or the other of having localhost on her
computer vs working from My Webs? and if so, how can she set up the
localhost and work from there so that we are both on the same page...

thanks
Pam

 

[Greg]

My Webs is the local "working" (if you will) COPY of the webs you create.
localhost is the "folder" on your XP Machine that you PUBLISH the web you
created to (usually C:\Inetpub\wwwroot). Hope this make some sense...Took
me a great deal of time to figure this stuff out and it's kind of difficult
to put into words. It's much easier to be shown if ya have a friend that
could spend a little time with you, that would help a GREAT deal.

Best of luck to you and your daughter...Your teaching her a valuable tool!

-Greg

 

[Greg]

DuH!...To answer your question, yes you can create them directly into
localhost but I create them in my webs to have a working copy. If I make
changes that I like, I just publish to localhost, If I don't like the
changes I just undo and the "Web" never gets changed... Understand?

 

[Pam]

Well, I do understand - but why would a person need localhost than anyway?
If you can publish directly from My Webs straight to your server, what do
you need the localhost for?

I usually have a 'copy' of my sites in My Webs - but when I work on sites, I
work directly from localhost (since when I go to fp 03 and click file/open
website/ it shows the sites on www.exampels..and then Localhost - I choose
localhost and pull them in directly from there.

So basically....then....I have >2< working copies on my machine...correct?
course, the MY WEBS that I have is on my extra drive - that way if my main
drive crashes...and localhost goes byby - then I also have My webs on drive
d...backup...

does any of that make sense?

pam