Fpsrvadm Command-Line Arguments

Microsoft Corporation

Updated April 15, 1999

The Fpsrvadm command-line arguments are listed below.

Argument	Short form	Definition	Sample values
-port	-p	A port number	An integer, such as 80, or a virtual server name followed by an integer, such as sample.microsoft.com:80 For IIS 4.0 Web servers and later, you can use -m InstanceNumber instead of -m HostName -p nnnn
-web	-w	A FrontPage-extended web name	The URL of a directory, relative to the root of the content area, such as /mydirectory
-type	-t	A Web server type	On UNIX: apache, apache-fp (Apache with FrontPage patch), ncsa, netscape-enterprise, netscape-fasttrack, stronghold On Windows: frontpage, msiis (Microsoft Internet Information Services), mspws (Microsoft Personal Web Server), netscape-fasttrack, netscape-enterprise, website
-servconfig	-s	A Web server configuration file	A full pathname, such as /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf
-multihost	-m	A virtual server's name or IP address. On IIS 4.0 Web servers and later, this argument is used to specify an instance number.	An IP address or full WWW host name, as in 172.20.65.43, or sample.microsoft.com. On IIS 4.0 and later, an instance number, such as /LM/W3SVC/10. The empty string "" signifies that the server is not multi-hosted.
-username	-u	A user name	On IIS, this value must be either a Windows NT user account name or a Windows NT group name, and can be qualified with a domain name, for example domain\username. On UNIX and other non-IIS servers, this is a new or existing user name in the Web server’s access list. You should not use a UNIX user name for this value because it could be easily guessed.
-password	-pw	A password	A password string, such as 124Xyz. This value is not needed on IIS servers.
-ipaddress	-i	An IP address	An IP address, such as 172.22.12.12
-access	-a	The level of access being granted	One of the following values: administrators, authors, users, remove. Specifying remove removes all access for the account.
-destination	-d	A URL of a file or folder in a FrontPage-extended web	For the Putfile and Recalcfile commands, a URL relative to the top-level directory of the web, such as /mydirectory/myfile.htm. For the Setdirexec and Setdirnoexec commands, a folder URL relative to the top-level directory of the web, such as /mydirectory/newfolder. For the Rename command, a URL, relative to the root web, such as /newsubweb.
-filename	-f	A file name	A full path and file name, such as C:\Myfiles\Filename.htm
-xUser	-xu	A UNIX user account-name (this must be an existing account)	A UNIX user account name.
-xGroup	-xg	A UNIX group account-name (this must be an existing account)	A UNIX group account name, such as "www."
-noChownContent Yes	-n yes	Specifies that only the contents of _vti* directories, and not users' content, is to be chowned.	None.