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Creating a new site, Windows 95/98/ME

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2-24 Compaq TaskSmart W2200 Appliance Server Administration Guide To publish content to the virtual site using Microsoft FrontPage: First, verify that the virtual site IP address is added to your DNS server, or for testing purposes, to your local hosts file. Ping the virtual site by name from your workstation to test it. If you are testing and the hosts file does not exist, copy the hosts.sam file to hosts and edit it to add the virtual site IP address and name. File locations for the hosts file: Windows 95/98/ME: c:\windows\hosts Windows NT/2000: c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\hosts Once a virtual site has been set up and is accessible through your Web browser, you are ready to publish content via FrontPage. There are two methods of publishing your data on the website via FrontPage: creating a new site and copying a Web to the virtual site. Creating a new site You can open the virtual webpage on the site and begin editing it by changing the text, or inserting pictures and hyperlinks. 1. Start FrontPage. 2. Click on File, and then click Open. 3. Type the name of the virtual site in the file name field, for example http://, and then click Open. The first time that the site is accessed you are prompted for a user name and password and must use the site administrator ID and password of the virtual site to access it. FrontPage creates a Web folder for the site, and the directory and file structure of the site are displayed. 4. Find and double-click the file name index.html. This file name is the virtual home page for the virtual site. FrontPage opens this file to edit. 5. Make any changes to the file and save it. If you have added pictures, then you will be prompted to save those pictures to the website as well.

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Compaq TaskSmart W2200 Appliance Server Administration Guide
To publish content to the virtual site using
Microsoft FrontPage:
First, verify that the virtual site IP address is added to your DNS server, or for
testing purposes, to your local
hosts
file. Ping the virtual site by name from
your workstation to test it. If you are testing and the
hosts
file does not exist,
copy the
hosts.sam
file to
hosts
and edit it to add the virtual site IP address and
name.
File locations for the
hosts
file:
Windows 95/98/ME:
c:\windows\hosts
Windows NT/2000:
c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
Once a virtual site has been set up and is accessible through your Web
browser, you are ready to publish content via FrontPage. There are two
methods of publishing your data on the website via FrontPage: creating a new
site and copying a Web to the virtual site.
Creating a new site
You can open the virtual webpage on the site and begin editing it by changing
the text, or inserting pictures and hyperlinks.
1.
Start FrontPage.
2.
Click on
File,
and then click
Open.
3.
Type the name of the virtual site in the file name field, for example
http://<VirtualSiteName
>, and then click
Open.
The first time that the site is accessed you are prompted for a user name
and password and must use the site administrator ID and password of
the virtual site to access it. FrontPage creates a Web folder for the site,
and the directory and file structure of the site are displayed.
4.
Find and double-click the file name
index.html.
This file name is the
virtual home page for the virtual site. FrontPage opens this file to edit.
5.
Make any changes to the file and save it. If you have added pictures,
then you will be prompted to save those pictures to the website as well.