XP Home & Frontpage

[Ray Mooney]

I have a friend who received a PC for Christmas, unfortunately it has XP
Home. She needs to run Frontpage to edit and maange some simple web pages
for a web site. The web site has no asp page,. just basic html stuff.

Can Frontpage be installed on XP Home? .... or is it best to just not fight
it and do the upgrade to XP Professional and then install Frontpage.

Thanks for any advice

 

[Tom [Pepper] Willett]

Yes, it can be installed on XP Home and use diskbased webs.
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Tom [Pepper] Willett
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
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FrontPage Support:
http://www.frontpagemvps.com/

About FrontPage 2003:
http://office.microsoft.com/home/office.aspx?assetid=FX01085802
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|I have a friend who received a PC for Christmas, unfortunately it has XP
| Home. She needs to run Frontpage to edit and maange some simple web pages
| for a web site. The web site has no asp page,. just basic html stuff.
|
| Can Frontpage be installed on XP Home? .... or is it best to just not
fight
| it and do the upgrade to XP Professional and then install Frontpage.
|
| Thanks for any advice
|
|

 

[Tom J]

I'm running XP home and used FP 2000 and now FP 2003. If there is a
problem, I don't know about it.

Tom J

 

[Rob Giordano \(Crash\)]

You can install and run on Home, no problem.

What you can't do is test against a server on Home, because IIS doesn't run
on Home. So you can't test any database stuff, and a few components will
protest that they wont work...but it's no biggie...they will work on the
live server.

You can very easily work with disk-based webs and then test on your online
web server (I worked this way for years).

With disk-based webs your webs will be stored on C:\\....\My
Webs\yourwebname (something like that)
When using a server on Pro your web would be like:
http://localhost/yourwebname



|I have a friend who received a PC for Christmas, unfortunately it has XP
| Home. She needs to run Frontpage to edit and maange some simple web pages
| for a web site. The web site has no asp page,. just basic html stuff.
|
| Can Frontpage be installed on XP Home? .... or is it best to just not
fight
| it and do the upgrade to XP Professional and then install Frontpage.
|
| Thanks for any advice
|
|

 

[Ray Mooney]

THANKS!!!

That's good news. Do you use Frontpage extensions at all on you web pages? I
wonder if there will be a problem with XP Home and extensions.

 

[Tom [Pepper] Willett]

XP Home will not run extensions, because they require a web server, which
does not come with Home. You can only run disk based webs. XP Pro has the
IIS 5.1 web server.
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Tom [Pepper] Willett
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
---
FrontPage Support:
http://www.frontpagemvps.com/

About FrontPage 2003:
http://office.microsoft.com/home/office.aspx?assetid=FX01085802
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| THANKS!!!
|
| That's good news. Do you use Frontpage extensions at all on you web pages?
I
| wonder if there will be a problem with XP Home and extensions.
|
|
|
| | > I'm running XP home and used FP 2000 and now FP 2003. If there is a
| > problem, I don't know about it.
| >
| > Tom J
| >
| > | > >I have a friend who received a PC for Christmas, unfortunately it has
| > >XP
| > > Home. She needs to run Frontpage to edit and maange some simple web
| > > pages
| > > for a web site. The web site has no asp page,. just basic html
| > > stuff.
| > >
| > > Can Frontpage be installed on XP Home? .... or is it best to just
| > > not fight
| > > it and do the upgrade to XP Professional and then install Frontpage.
| > >
| > > Thanks for any advice
| > >
| > >
| >
| >
|
|

 

[Ray Mooney]

Thanks .... that's a very good description!

I might have some Frontpage extension-components that have been used. Is
there a way for me to determine what web page features I have developed that
are considerd Frontpage extensions?

I know I have one online entry-form.

Again .... Thanks for your help!

 

[Tom [Pepper] Willett]

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;281532 gives you the
components requiring server extensions, including FrontPage forms.
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Tom [Pepper] Willett
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
---
FrontPage Support:
http://www.frontpagemvps.com/

About FrontPage 2003:
http://office.microsoft.com/home/office.aspx?assetid=FX01085802
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| Thanks .... that's a very good description!
|
| I might have some Frontpage extension-components that have been used. Is
| there a way for me to determine what web page features I have developed
that
| are considerd Frontpage extensions?
|
| I know I have one online entry-form.
|
| Again .... Thanks for your help!
|
|
| | > You can install and run on Home, no problem.
| >
| > What you can't do is test against a server on Home, because IIS doesn't
| run
| > on Home. So you can't test any database stuff, and a few components will
| > protest that they wont work...but it's no biggie...they will work on the
| > live server.
| >
| > You can very easily work with disk-based webs and then test on your
online
| > web server (I worked this way for years).
| >
| > With disk-based webs your webs will be stored on C:\\....\My
| > Webs\yourwebname (something like that)
| > When using a server on Pro your web would be like:
| > http://localhost/yourwebname
| >
| >
| >
| > | > |I have a friend who received a PC for Christmas, unfortunately it has
XP
| > | Home. She needs to run Frontpage to edit and maange some simple web
| pages
| > | for a web site. The web site has no asp page,. just basic html stuff.
| > |
| > | Can Frontpage be installed on XP Home? .... or is it best to just not
| > fight
| > | it and do the upgrade to XP Professional and then install Frontpage.
| > |
| > | Thanks for any advice
| > |
| > |
| >
| >
|
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