All custom components are installed on the server. No client-side installation is required.
Web server administrators have two options when installing new custom components:
To make custom components available to all web servers on a machine, the components should be installed in the FrontPageRoot/bots directory, where FrontPageRoot is c:\Program Files\Microsoft FrontPage by default for Windows 95 and Windows NT, or /usr/local/frontpage by default for UNIX. These components can be used in any FrontPage web hosted by that machine.
To make custom components available to just one web server on a machine, the components should be installed in content/_vti_bot directory, where content is the Root Web’s content directory for the chosen web server. These components can be used in the Root Web and all of its sub-webs.
In the case of conflicts (duplicate custom components in the per-machine and per-server directories), the per-server custom components take precedence.
NOTE: After installing a custom FrontPage component (such as the Electronic Commerce Wizard), the root web needs to have a Recalculate Hyperlinks operation performed by a root web author or administrator before the component is made available. Only after this operation is performed will the newly-installed custom component appear in the Insert FrontPage Component dialog box in the FrontPage Editor. This behavior is new for FrontPage 98 as an added security measure; in prior versions, recalculating any FrontPage web was sufficient.