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Frontpage Administration

Hello. I am new to Frontpage and I am trying to figure out how the security administration works. I have created a web, published it to our web server and that all works well. However I want users to have to log onto the intranet and based on their id and password states what pages they get to see. I am using 2002. When on my pc I open the web I published I click on Tools and the Server option is greyed out.

Anybody understand how that works? The two books I've read have been unable to help me understand.

Thanks.

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coreybryant

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nnaxor

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That was a great idea! I only wish it had worked. It got closer. What I had been doing was Open Web and then navigating to the server it was on and choosing it that way. When I did that it opened the web, but it never said connecting to web server.

So I typed in http://172.16.96.104/IntetPub/test/ where test is the name of the folder that is my web but it kept giving me an error saying it didn't exist or I did not have the rights. I am an administrator on this network so I don't think it is a rights issue. I'm closer tho thanks.

coreybryant

Is test a folder or a sub-web? You are opening a web - so test cannot be a folder - it needs to be a sub-web.

Corey

nnaxor

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Okay now you have me confused. Sub-web? I'll have to read up on that. By web I am referring to something I publish via FrontPage. And, yes, Test is a folder. When I published test via FrontPage it created a folder on my web server entitled test.

When I navigate to it via Frontpage to Open it, it opens it.

When I open a browser and enter http://172.16.96.104/test/index.htm it opens my web page.

Hope that makes sense.

coreybryant

If you right click on test - you can see - convert to sub-web. A sub-web is pretty much the same thig as a folder, but you can just publish info from that web only - it is helpful if you have different sections to your site

Corey

nnaxor

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You pointed me in the right direction. After playing with several options I tried creating a new web on the server, instead of on my local machine and publishing it to the server. Once I did that the server told me it did not have Frontpage extensions installed - whereas I thought it had. Therefore, I will install Frontpage on the server and hopefully that will resolve my problem.

Thanks much!