How to Configure FrontPage with No Root Web

ID: Q202632

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft FrontPage 2000 Server Extensions

SUMMARY

This article explains how to configure FrontPage to use a virtual server with no root Web. This configuration allows you to have only subwebs for your virtual server with no root Web.

MORE INFORMATION

To configure FrontPage for no root Web, do the following:

Create the subwebs you want to reside on your virtual server. These subwebs should be one level deep and be configured to use unique permissions.

In the content directory for your virtual server, open the file _vti_inf.html in notepad and add the directive FPNoRootWeb="1" after the other FrontPage directives as shown below.

-- FrontPage Configuration Information

FPVersion="4.0.0.2128"
FPShtmlScriptUrl="_vti_bin/shtml.dll/_vti_rpc"
FPAuthorScriptUrl="_vti_bin/_vti_aut/author.dll"
FPAdminScriptUrl="_vti_bin/_vti_adm/admin.dll"
FPNoRootWeb="1"

It is also recommended that you edit your master copy of the _vti_inf.html as you did in step 2. Your master copy of the _vti_inf.html is located in c:\Program files\Common files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\4.0\Bin\ on Windows. For UNIX, the master copy resides in /Usr/Local/Frontpage/Version4.0/Bin/.

Remove all of the _vti directories in the content area for the old root Web except for _vti_pvt. This file needs to stay so that FrontPage can access the Frontpg.lck file.

Remove any directory mappings that remain that reference the deleted _vti directories for the root Web. This includes the mapping for _vti_bin for the root Web.

When you open the subwebs in FrontPage, you must type the trailing slash. For instance, to open a subweb called test, you would type:

http://servername/test/

This is a new feature for FrontPage 2000 and has some extensible options. If you create new Webs that are one level deep off of the root, you must use Fpsrvadm.exe. If you are creating nested subwebs under the existing subwebs, you can do this from the client or use the Fpsrvadm.exe command line utility.

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