FrontPage Programming - Managing multiple overlapping websites

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Managing multiple overlapping websites

Wolfie

2007-01-27, 10:38 pm

I have two websites that are ostensibly copies of one another. One is the
public version (www.domain.com), the other is the private test subdomain
(www.test.domain.com).

On my development system I have the same scenario with the 2 separate
websites. The one website is, for tha lack of a better explanation, a stable
backup point. The other is the test/development site.

When finished developing I publish the tested code to the
www.test.domain.com. Easy enough. Once the committee ok's the test
development, I want to publish this to the www.domain.com.

My problem is that FrontPage only allows me to publish to the test subdomain,
which is without FP extensions. But the latter I can ignore if I could only
later publish to the regular full domain from the test subdomain or
development test site.

FrontPage views the world like this:

[development backup] ------> [www.domain.com]

[development test] --------> [www.test.domain.com]

I need this;

[development backup] ------> [www.domain.com]
^
|
|
[development test] --------> [www.test.domain.com]

How is this done in the real world?

Thanks!

Randy

Thomas A. Rowe

2007-01-27, 10:38 pm

You should consider using a FP subweb / subsite instead, which would allow your to use the FP
extensions.

So your view would be:

[development backup] ------> [www.domain.com]

[development test] --------> [www.domain.com/test]

And then when approved, publish as follows:

[www.domain.com/test] --------> [www.domain.com]

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"Wolfie" <no@spam.com> wrote in message news:Xns98BC95B852F73nonyabidness@66.250.146.128...
>I have two websites that are ostensibly copies of one another. One is the
> public version (www.domain.com), the other is the private test subdomain
> (www.test.domain.com).
>
> On my development system I have the same scenario with the 2 separate
> websites. The one website is, for tha lack of a better explanation, a stable
> backup point. The other is the test/development site.
>
> When finished developing I publish the tested code to the
> www.test.domain.com. Easy enough. Once the committee ok's the test
> development, I want to publish this to the www.domain.com.
>
> My problem is that FrontPage only allows me to publish to the test subdomain,
> which is without FP extensions. But the latter I can ignore if I could only
> later publish to the regular full domain from the test subdomain or
> development test site.
>
> FrontPage views the world like this:
>
> [development backup] ------> [www.domain.com]
>
> [development test] --------> [www.test.domain.com]
>
> I need this;
>
> [development backup] ------> [www.domain.com]
> ^
> |
> |
> [development test] --------> [www.test.domain.com]
>
> How is this done in the real world?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Randy
>

Wolfie

2007-01-27, 10:38 pm

"Thomas A. Rowe" <tarowe@mvps.org> wrote in
news:#h0TxszOHHA.4996@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl:

> You should consider using a FP subweb / subsite instead, which would
> allow your to use the FP extensions.
>
> So your view would be:
>
> [development backup] ------> [www.domain.com]
>
> [development test] --------> [www.domain.com/test]
>
> And then when approved, publish as follows:
>
> [www.domain.com/test] --------> [www.domain.com]
>

Thank you very much Thomas!! I now have my once subdomain without FrontPage
extensions to now subweb with extensions. The actual method to do this was
not clear but with some futzing and google searches I found the most helpful
"How To" article.

http://www.outfront.net/tutorials_0...age-subwebs.htm

This article/url should be in the FrontPage FAQ.

Cheers!

-randy