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frontpage extensions troubleshooting

I am using frontpage server extensions. When I try to publish from local to remote, nothing happens. It acts like it is publishing, but nothing shows up on the server side. I don't get an error, I just end up with a blank screen on the server side. It does publish, though from the local root directory to the remote root directory.

The directory that I want to publish to is medicalcompany, and I have configured the directory as a subdomain.

Bob
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Do you have an index.html (home page) set up?

-Corey
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Yes, I have an index.html page setup in my root directory (home page) and I also tried setting up an index.html in the medicalcompany folder I'm trying to publish to.

Did not work.

Bob
Can you supply the URL?  And you are publishing to something like: http://www.yourdomain.com/medicalcompany ?

Corey
There is no URL because I have not successfully published any files to the "medicalcompany" folder.

The URL will be like

 http://www.b-transfers.com/medicalcompany
or
http://www.medicalcompany.b-transfers.com

My home page (root directory) is www.b-transfers.com
Upped to 500 just because topic is urgent
Sorry I was trying to see if there were other files, etc. Can you sign onto the server via FP to see if the files are there?

-Corey
I went into my Yahoo FTP - file manager. The files are not listed there either.

When I try to publish to the medicalcompany subdomain, most of the times the file gets put in the remote root directory.
>When I try to publish to the medicalcompany subdomain, most of the times the file gets put in the remote root directory

Are you publishing to http://www.b-transfers.com/medicalcompany or just http://www.b-transfers.com/ ?  

If you are in the root web on your local computer is medicalcompany designated a sub-web by FP? Can you go to File - Publish & choose sub-webs as well?

-Corey
http://www.b-transfers.com/medicalcompany

that's my url that I'm publishing to.

When I click on remote web site properties, and choose FrontPage and Sharepoint services, i put in http://www.b-transfers.com for the address in that box

When I am viewing the remote web site, medicalcompany is a folder there. I do not know how to tell if it's a subweb by FP. I did configure it in Yahoo as a subdomain.
>When I click on remote web site properties, and choose FrontPage and Sharepoint services, i put in http://www.b-transfers.com for the address in that box

It should be: http://www.b-transfers.com/medicalcompany 

Locally, you can right click the folder & say convert to web

-Corey
If I put in http://b-transfers.com/medicalcompany in the remote site properties setup screen, I get the following message:

A web site does not exist at http://b-transfers.com/medicalcompany. Would you like FrontPage to create a Web site at that location

If I click yes,
then it repeatedly asks me for my username and password

Also, I'm not able to right click on a local folder and say convert to web.

However,
I just tried dragging a file over to medicalcompany and it copied. I'm using FP 2003, is this an OK way to publish files?
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