subdomains / subwebs

[Andrew Murray]

I am using FP2003; hosting my site on Windows 2003 Server, my host is
www.spiritconnect.com.au. This is a full hosting package, complete with FP
2002 server extensions, and a range of other options available through the
host a/c control panel. One option is to create subdomains.

Therefore I have a question about subdomains and Frontpage Subwebs.

I have my main URL of http://www.murraywebs.com. I can create subdomains
through my hosting account control panel such as
http://www.test.murraywebs.com that point to a folder of the same name eg
www.murraywebs.com/test/.

I want to create subdomains (www.subdomain.website.com) for each of my web
design clients rather than just a sub-folder (www.website.com/subfolder)
for a testbed or "members" kind of areas for my clients, but am running into
problems with things like missing images, and the database results pages
returning errors when viewing online.

The example below with databases/results wizards where I receive the
database errors, and I am guessing that this is because the subdomain is
being treated like a separate domain/website, and it can't find the files
because they are not in the correct path on the server, since the subdomain
folder is treated as the root folder, that is
www.murraywebs.com/cursillo/ as a subdomain is www.cursillo.murraywebs.com
the root folder for that subdomain "cursillo" and it is looking for an
"images" folder and a global.asa and fpdb folder in the path from that root
folder i.e. www.cursillo.murraywebs.com/images/ than from the main
domain's root folder.

I'm getting a missing image banner, and also a database error when viewing
the subdomain here:
http://www.cursillo.murraywebs.com/cursillo.asp, it's pointing to
http://www.cursillo.murraywebs.com/images/murray2005.jpg
not http://www.murraywebs.com/images

When I view http://www.murraywebs.com/cursillo/cursillo.asp all is OK.

I assume it is treating the subdomains like a "real" domain, and it needs
its own paths to files in the "images" and "fpdb" folders (and separate
instances of these folders also).

Therefore do I need to

1) Convert "cursillo" folder into a sub-web in Frontpage, publish it to the
"cursillo" folder on the server (under the main domain
http://www.murraywebs.com in Frontpage http mode), making sure it imports
the database and image(s) to the correct place?

2) Basically duplicate the images and fpdb and publish all as part of the
same web them and the relevant files into the "cursillo" (root) folder
without making it a subweb?


If I've answered my own question please tell me!

Any suggestions helpful, thanks.

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Andrew Murray
Perth Western Australia
http://www.murraywebs.com
http://members.iinet.net.au/~admurray/
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[Paul M]

Hi Murray
I tried to do something similar but my host didn't Support FP extensions on
subwebs have you Checked this?
Paul M

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

You still have to create a subweb/site for each via FP so that you can publish each individually.

The subdomain is pointed to the subweb/site (folder) , as in your example, test.

You may have problem with specific FP component/function depending on how the host has the configure
the server and extensions especially when doing this via a control panel.
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