FP98: How to Create Disk-Based Webs in FrontPage 98

Last reviewed: March 18, 1998
Article ID: Q178484
The information in this article applies to:
  • Microsoft FrontPage 98 for Windows

SUMMARY

This article describes how to create a disk-based Web in Microsoft FrontPage 98.

MORE INFORMATION

A disk-based Web, is a Web in which the content resides on a file server, rather than on a Web server.

Creating a Disk-based Root Web

  1. In FrontPage Explorer, point to New on the File menu, and click FrontPage Web.

  2. In Section 1 ("Choose the kind of FrontPage web to create"), click One-Page Web.

  3. In Section 2 ("Choose a title for your FrontPage web"), click Change.

  4. In the "Please specify a location for the new FrontPage web" box, type:

          <x>:\myweb
    

          Where <x> is the drive letter of the hard disk drive where you want
          to place the new web.
    

  5. Click OK in the Change Location dialog box.

  6. Click OK again in the New FrontPage dialog box.

NOTE: If the folder <x>:\myweb does not exist, click Yes when prompted with the following message:

   The folder <x>:\myweb does not exist.

   Do you want to create it?

Creating a Disk-Based Subweb

In order to create a disk-based subweb in FrontPage Explorer, first create the folder for the root web. To do this, first see the "Creating a Disk- based Root Web" section of this article before proceeding.

  1. In FrontPage Explorer, point to New on the File menu, and click FrontPage Web.

  2. In Section 1 ("Choose the kind of FrontPage web to create"), click One-Page Web.

  3. In Section 2 ("Choose a title for your FrontPage web"), click Change.

  4. In the "Please specify a location for the new FrontPage web" box, type:

          <x>:\myweb\subweb
    

          Where <x> is the drive letter of the hard disk drive where you want
          to place the new web.
    

  5. Click OK in the Change Location dialog box.

  6. Click OK again in the New FrontPage dialog box.


Additional query words: 97 98 disk-based
Keywords : kbdta
Version : WINDOWS:98
Platform : WINDOWS
Hardware : x86
Issue type : kbhowto kbkeyword kbinfo


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Last reviewed: March 18, 1998
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