FrontPage web publishing question

hotzeminghotzeming
edited July 2005 in Science & Tech
I am using FrontPage 2002. I have no problem in publishing my first webpage using it. But when I try to publish my second page to another location, it still shows the first webpage will be published and does not allow my to change to the second webpage. Could somebody please help me on this?

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  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited July 2005
    is the second web page part of the 1st project or did you start a new one?
  • hotzeminghotzeming
    edited July 2005
    kryyst wrote:
    is the second web page part of the 1st project or did you start a new one?
    No, the second web page is not page of the 1st project. It is a new one.
  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited July 2005
    Check in the page properties when you go to publish it IIR there is a setting in there that allows you to specify where the project should go
  • hotzeminghotzeming
    edited July 2005
    kryyst wrote:
    Check in the page properties when you go to publish it IIR there is a setting in there that allows you to specify where the project should go
    Do you mean choosing "File", "Properties..." and then there is "Page Properties" screen? If yes, then under the General tab, the location is already showing where my file is. But when I choose "File", "Publish Web....", the file of "Publish from" is still the wrong one and cannot be changed.
  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited July 2005
    I have front page 2002 and when I go to publish a website using the publish button the next line down says to: and list the last site I published it to. If I hit the change button beside it I can publish it to a different site.
  • hotzeminghotzeming
    edited July 2005
    kryyst wrote:
    I have front page 2002 and when I go to publish a website using the publish button the next line down says to: and list the last site I published it to. If I hit the change button beside it I can publish it to a different site.

    Hi, my problem is not where the webpage should go to. The problem is it only shows the first webpage is going to be published and I cannot change it. That is the first line "Published from:........" (not the second line "To:....). For the above I use File, Publish web.

    If I used the publish button, I got a yellow triangle with an exclamation mark and "The following pages in your web are Active Server Pages (ASP). They will not work............." When I clicked "continue", it tried to upload my first web page (instead of my 2nd webpage) to the website.
  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited July 2005
    well it's because you have ASP pages - the aren't standard web pages (html) it's lookinf for an ASP server to put the data on and it's not finding it.
  • hotzeminghotzeming
    edited July 2005
    kryyst wrote:
    well it's because you have ASP pages - the aren't standard web pages (html) it's lookinf for an ASP server to put the data on and it's not finding it.
    Thanks for your reply. Sorry, I don't know what ASP pages are. The first and second webpages were both created by me using the same MS FrontPage XP. Why the second one is not standard web page? Under Windows Explorer, the type of the second web page is html but the file extension is just htm. For the first web page, both the type and file extension are html. Could you please tell me what cause the problem and how can I fix this?
  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited July 2005
    Sorry for taking awhile to get back I've been (in my spare time) trying to duplicate your problem. Here's what I'm doing - this may at least help to narrow down your problem, or my understanding of your problem.

    I open up front page and choose a new blank web page I call it index.html. I put some text on it, save it and then upload it to a test site (server at work).

    I close that project, I then do a new project make another blank web page called index.html publish put some text on it save it and publish it to a different test site at work.

    So I now have 2 web sites created. I then open up the first pages do a new blank page called page1.html which I save as part of the first project and also go and upload it to that site.

    Next I open up the 2nd project create page in it called page1.html and publish it to that site.

    Each time I make sure that I'm dealing with the same sites, the pages are always of type blank html and I haven't seen the problem you are encountering at all. So either you are doing something beyond what I'm understanding or you are mixing up a step along the way. The trick is that you have to always be working with the correct project so that you aren't for example opening project one creating a new page and then trying to send that page to a different site, it will then upload everything to that site.
  • hotzeminghotzeming
    edited July 2005
    kryyst wrote:
    Sorry for taking awhile to get back I've been (in my spare time) trying to duplicate your problem. Here's what I'm doing - this may at least help to narrow down your problem, or my understanding of your problem.

    I open up front page and choose a new blank web page I call it index.html. I put some text on it, save it and then upload it to a test site (server at work).

    I close that project, I then do a new project make another blank web page called index.html publish put some text on it save it and publish it to a different test site at work.

    So I now have 2 web sites created. I then open up the first pages do a new blank page called page1.html which I save as part of the first project and also go and upload it to that site.

    Next I open up the 2nd project create page in it called page1.html and publish it to that site.

    Each time I make sure that I'm dealing with the same sites, the pages are always of type blank html and I haven't seen the problem you are encountering at all. So either you are doing something beyond what I'm understanding or you are mixing up a step along the way. The trick is that you have to always be working with the correct project so that you aren't for example opening project one creating a new page and then trying to send that page to a different site, it will then upload everything to that site.

    Thanks for your time trying to duplicate my problem. My problem is I could not success in uploading the project 2.

    I have tried to make sure I did not open project 1 when I create a new page for my project 2. I did that by just opening FrontPage and then open a brand new page immediately. Is this the correct method? But I found that each time the new page is with extension htm instead of html. Does this indicate that the new page is not for a separate project?

    Let me correct some of my previous information. My project 1 was created by FrontPage 2000 instead of 2002/XP. But project 1 had been revised by FrontPage 2002/XP and successfully uploaded. Hope this information may help.
  • ZuntarZuntar North Carolina Icrontian
    edited July 2005
    Are you using two completely different folders? Is your second web site in a sub folder of the first one?
  • hotzeminghotzeming
    edited July 2005
    Zuntar wrote:
    Are you using two completely different folders? Is your second web site in a sub folder of the first one?

    Hi, I am using two completely different folders. My second web page is not in a sub folder of the first web page.
  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited July 2005
    htm = html their are identical and make no difference so that's not causing the problem.

    Think I'm going to have to throw my hands up on this one for the time being. I'll still dig around and try and figure out what's going on but for now I can only say I'm stumped. I wouldn't bother trying a re-install of front page since I don't think there is a software problem it's just a process thing.

    It sounds to me like you are doing things correctly. If you could put up a couple screen shots around when the issue happens that may help. Also have you tried just starting over with a new site and see if it still happens? I'll assume that you have but I'm just throwing that out there.
  • hotzeminghotzeming
    edited July 2005
    kryyst wrote:
    htm = html their are identical and make no difference so that's not causing the problem.

    Think I'm going to have to throw my hands up on this one for the time being. I'll still dig around and try and figure out what's going on but for now I can only say I'm stumped. I wouldn't bother trying a re-install of front page since I don't think there is a software problem it's just a process thing.

    It sounds to me like you are doing things correctly. If you could put up a couple screen shots around when the issue happens that may help. Also have you tried just starting over with a new site and see if it still happens? I'll assume that you have but I'm just throwing that out there.

    Yes, I have tried creating different new web pages. But each time when I tried to publish it, it only showed the first project/web page was going to be published and cannot be changed. Thanks for your time.
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