Publishing to AOL

[Jennifer]

I have been trying to publish my website built in
FrontPage 2003 to ftp://members.aol.com. I do not wish to
upload each file individually, including all the graphics
on the pages which is why I would like to publish from the
FrontPage software. It keeps asking for username and
password. I put in my AOL username (screen name) and
password, but it does not accept it. It does not say that
it is incorrect, it just keeps asking for it. After about
the 5th time, it will "time out" and go back to the Remote
Web Site Properties Setup.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!!
Jennifer

 

[Webmaster - Carl Vannest]

Jennifer,

If you are using FrontPage and America Online's Internet software, keep the
following in mind:
1.. You must have a 32-bit version of America Online's Internet software,
version 3.x or later, installed on your computer.

NOTE: America Online does not currently publish Internet software for
Microsoft Windows NT.
2.. Start America Online, and log on.
3.. Start FrontPage. You need to do this, so that you are using the TCP/IP
stack that AOL uses.
4.. In the Publish dialog box, type ftp://members.aol.com//username/
(where user name is the screen name you used to log on to AOL in step 1).
Make sure you use 2 "/" before the user name. You could also use
ftp://members.aol.com and AOL will start you in the home directory, based on
the screen name you used to log in.
5.. A prompt for user name and password should appear. Type FTP for the
user name and (e-mail address removed) for the password. Where user name is the same
one entered in step 1.

 

[Webmaster - Carl Vannest]

Jennifer,

I actually just went back over this to review for accuracy. If you put
the two "//" marks after members.aol.com it will not work. It should be
just like this. ftp://members.aol.com/username Login ID will be "ftp" and
password will be "(e-mail address removed)".