FP: How to Change FrontPage Personal Web Server ServerNameLast reviewed: March 18, 1998Article ID: Q164294 |
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SUMMARYThis article describes how to change the ServerName of the FrontPage Personal Web Server.
MORE INFORMATIONServerName affects the name the server returns to a client. For example, if a Web browser requests http://www.microsoft.com/frontpage, the server redirects that to http://www.microsoft.com/frontpage/ (with a trailing slash) so that relative links are interpreted correctly. The server does not know the name that was sent in the original request (without the trailing slash), so it typically uses the host name as returned by the Transport Control Protocol (TCP). This can lead to problems in three cases:
Use the following steps to change the ServerName for the FrontPage Personal Web Server:
NOTE: If your computer does not have DNS enabled and your TCP/IP stack supports it, you can use "localhost" (without the quotation marks) as your computer name without having to make the changes described in this article. You will also be able to specify "localhost" if your computer has a host name that is not fully qualified. To determine if your TCP/IP stack supports this configuration, run the FrontPage 1.1 TCP/IP test. In FrontPage 98 and 97, start the FrontPage Explorer, click About Microsoft FrontPage Explorer on the Help menu, and then click Network Test.
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