Administering an ISP Installation

Nested Content

Before installing FrontPage Server Extensions, make sure you do not have content nested in overlapping virtual servers. Virtual server directories should not be configured under the root directory for another server.

For example, because the following configurations contain nested directories for the virtual servers, they will not work with FrontPage Server Extensions.

Example 1: Server running on Windows 2000

Default Site C:\Inetpub\wwwroot
Virtual Server 1 C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\virsvr1
Virtual Server 2 C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\virsvr2

Example 2: Server running on UNIX

Default Site /usr/local/www
Virtual Server 1 /usr/local/www/user1
Virtual Server 2 /usr/local/www/user2

If you have configured your virtual servers as in the examples, you must reorganize them in order for FrontPage Server Extensions to work properly.

Changing the Root of a Web Site

To change the root of an IIS 5.0 Web site with FrontPage Server Extensions

Uninstall FrontPage Server Extensions.
Change the document root.
Reinstall FrontPage Server Extensions.
Note When you change the document root directory in IIS 5.0, you must also reset the permissions on that directory.

FrontPage 2000 now administers permissions at the content root level. Therefore, if you remove and reinstall FrontPage Server Extensions, your permissions are not lost. When you install them, FrontPage assigns the following permissions on the content root:

Type of User	Level of Permission Assigned
Site visitor	Read, Execute
Author	Read, Execute, Write, Delete
Administrator	Read, Execute, Write, Delete, Change Permissions