FrontPage remote website properties-password required

[duane123]

I am trying to publish two different web pages to two different accounts that each have different main user ids and separate passwords. When I open the website locally from hard drive, make changes, and then go to upload (local to remote button) using FTP it sends it to the last site that was open. How can I get FrontPage to prompt me with the password box each time I go to publish - I can only get to the "Remote Web Site Properties", which does not autmatically open the user ID/password box?

[MandyJay]

Hi and welcome.

Which version FP do you have 2002 or 2003?

By using FTP does that mean you do not have the FrontPage Extensions on the server?

MJ

[duane123]

Sorry, FP 2003

[duane123]

I am using cox personal web space and it has this - FrontPage
The FrontPage functionality allows you to publish a web site from your local computer to your Personal WebSpace via the FrontPage interface.

But I have been using the FTP to transfer everything from my local PC up to the cox server - is this correct to do it?

This afternoon I am purchasing a manual for the FP 2003, but so far have been trying to understand from the little "Faster Smarter" pamhlet that came with FP.

[MandyJay]

Okay, once you have logged into a live site then you will stay logged in for as long as FrontPage remains open. So yes, the last site published to will be the one that is recognised. By the sound of it the pages are located in the same website on your hard drive, opposed to two different websites, so FrontPage will not know which site you are wanting each page to publish to.

If you click on File/publish web or click on the Remote Website tab at the bottom of FP - ONE of your remote sites will then open in the right hand pane. At the top of the pane is a tab "remote website properties" under the "Remote Website" tab of that you should be able to manually type in the ftp address you wish to publish to.

Is it just this one page you need to publish to a differnt website or several pages?

If you are happy using FTP then that is fine, but you wil not be able to use some of the FP components such as FrontPage forms, they will not work unless you have the Extensions on the server and publish using HTTP instead of FTP.

MJ

[MandyJay]

Also check out our tutorial section, although they nearly all are aimed at FP2002 ... certain things will be exactly the same, just maybe different terminology or stuff. Also in the tutorial section of this forum is a link to some Microsoft interactive FP2003 tutorials. You will need your speakers on, and you can also from the Microsoft site download a test website for you to try their tutorials on. It is very good.

MJ

[duane123]

so far both web sites are only one page each. I tried putting on a hit counter but it wouldn't work, just sitting at 1 all the time, so removed it. That is what you mean by the FP and Cox server settings isn't it? When I tried using the "FP or Win Share Point Services" button, it would not allow a transfer to Cox, so I went back to using the FTP which seems to work ok as long as I don't try anything fancy.

[duane123]

Okay, once you have logged into a live site then you will stay logged in for as long as FrontPage remains open. So yes, the last site published to will be the one that is recognised. By the sound of it the pages are located in the same website on your hard drive, opposed to two different websites, so FrontPage will not know which site you are wanting each page to publish to.

If you click on File/publish web or click on the Remote Website tab at the bottom of FP - ONE of your remote sites will then open in the right hand pane. At the top of the pane is a tab "remote website properties" under the "Remote Website" tab of that you should be able to manually type in the ftp address you wish to publish to.

Actually the two websites are different locally and I open them separately, but they both are uploaded to "ftp://members.cox.net" The first time I uploaded I was presented with a screen where you type in the user id and its associated password. That never shows up again and I need to get to that screen when I have the other web site open because it gets uploaded to a different user id. I tried closing FP 2003 and opening again, but I cannot get the user if box to show up and consequently the wrong web site gets published to the wrong user id.

[MandyJay]

I dont understand, you have one website address ftp://members.cox.net but two login and password ID's for it?

MJ

[duane123]

YES, everyone on Cox uses the same personal website address and after that address you put in "/your name or id/" which all have a unique password different from everyone else. There was a box for this info when I first published in FP 2003, but I cannot get it to show up again. The trick I had to use was to go into my internet tools under cox and make a temporary change to the password and then FP 2003 prompted me again. Is it possible this userid/password box is actually being sent DOWN to me from cox rather than being sent UP from FP 2003? Here is the difference http://members.cox.net/d.schroeder/ and the other one http://members.cox.net/moments2share/

[MandyJay]

what happens if you do what I suggested in earlier post? i.e. type in the url of the website into the publish box?

Otherwise I am really not sure, maybe you would have to ask Cox ....

MJ